June 23-24, 2013
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Track and Sign Certification is a 2-day practical test of any wildlife tracks and signs encountered in the field. While the Certification is rooted in a scientific need for observer reliability, the test is an educational tool for understanding animal behavior and natural history. Tracker certifications offer the opportunity for personal growth, comprehensive training, and provide an objective test of observer reliability in field research using sign counts recorded by professional scientists and citizen scientists alike.
Who is it for?
Biologists. Naturalists. Students. Citizen Scientists.
Track and Sign Certification is appropriate for beginners and experts alike. State wildlife departments personnel, citizen science monitoring program participants, environmental educators, wildlife biology students and curious citizens have all received certification.
Where is it?
Southern WA Cascades at the Pine Creek Information Station 23 miles east of Woodland WA
How Much?
$300 which includes food and lodging. Student discounts available by contacting agroskopf@mshinsitute.org or calling 360-891-5067.
Who is the instructor?
David Moskowitz is a professional wildlife tracker, photographer, and outdoor educator. He has contributed his technical expertise to a wide variety of wildlife studies regionally and in the Canadian and U.S. Rocky mountains, focusing on using tracking and other non-invasive methods to study wildlife ecology and promote conservation. David has worked on projects studying rare forest carnivores, wolves, elk, Caspian terns, desert plant ecology, and trophic cascades. He helped establish the Cascade Citizen Wildlife Monitoring Project, a citizen science effort to search for and monitor rare and sensitive wildlife in the Cascades and other Northwest wildlands. He is the author of Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest andWolves in the Land of Salmon.
How to register?