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Category: Tracks

It Has To Be Simulated To Be Seen …

October 6, 2016

What are the fundamentals of tracking? Do they end at just being able to ID a species?  Do they go beyond being able to read the smallest ridge?  Does the interaction of the foot surface and soil carry, or create useful information? If you could watch just the first layer of sand move as a foot … More It Has To Be Simulated To Be Seen …

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Another Way to Find Tracks…

September 19, 2016

Concept Illustrated: Using Stone Rolls to Find Tracks And yes, you are correct … That photo?  A deer?  No way! The idea: Illustrate a small-ish stone rolled by a deer foot … Searching for disturbances of small stones is another way to find tracks when they aren’t obvious. Soil conditions, and the way those affect … More Another Way to Find Tracks…

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What Can Only Be Seen by Illustrating?

September 12, 2016

One deer track … A place to start learning … And until deer start growing glass hooves … Only illustrations can show you what you’ll never see otherwise. Concept Illustrated: Deer – One Walking Step As a track is made the foot always obscures the movement of the earth that is in contact with the … More What Can Only Be Seen by Illustrating?

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