Jon Young's "Animal Tracking Basics" Book offers expert instruction and in-the-field advice for the novice and experienced tracker. Tracking wildlife successfully requires more than just looking for trails and scat. It requires an awareness of how an animal behaves in its environment--how it finds food, travels, and rests. A tracker must know how to find and interpret behavioral clues animals leave behind. This how-to book teaches the basics of being a successful tracker--explaining what to look for to find or identify an animal and how to develop an essential environmental awareness. Also describes aging tracks and sign, understanding ecology and mapping, keeping field notes, using track tools, and making casts. 304 pages.

Mark Elbroch's "Mammal Tracks & Sign" Book was a 2003 National Outdoor Book Award Winner. It contains detailed track and trail data for 135 species with actual-size track illustrations in one section and scat photos and data for dozens of animals. The most thorough treatment of the subject ever published, this amazing guide brings together clear track and trail illustrations, range maps, and full-color photographs showing feeding signs, scat, tunnels, burrows, bedding areas, remains, and more, to give a wealth of information about hundreds of mammal species living in North America. How to find, identify, measure, and interpret the clues mammals leave behind--explained and illustrated like never before. Includes essays that contextualize tracking as a developing science continually garnering more interest and participation; included also are instructive anecdotes from the author's work as a tracker and wildlife expert. An invaluable resource for beginning or professional trackers and wildlife enthusiasts in all North American locations. 792 pages.

Louise Forrest's "Field Guide to Tracking Animals in Snow" Book shows how to identify and decipher those mysterious winter trails. Focuses on the animal's track pattern, making windblown and obscured tracks identifiable. 192 pages.

Gray's "Track Pack" Book covers tracks, range maps, and scaled drawings, all in a small, wire-bound format for maximum portability. Designed to be brought out in the field, this handy pocket guide features actual-size tracks for 38 common North American animals, from bobcats to bobwhites and opossums to grizzly bears, as well as trail information. Each entry contains North American range maps and scaled drawings of each animal to aid with identification. An indispensable, quick reference for trackers, hunters, and everyone who is curious about the outdoors. 34 pages.

Richard Smith's "Animal Tracks and Signs of North America" Book gives basic instructions on tracking techniques and recognizing tracks, droppings, and gnawings. 272 pages.