Are you interested in tracking skills? If you have spent any time outside, you have come across tracks or sign left by animals and people. If you have ever wondered how to interpret, and even follow, human tracks or sign, this book is for you. This book imparts knowledge necessary to answer the questions: "What happened here?" and "Who made that track?" This is an essential book for the NASAR Tracking Fundamentals and other tracking classes. It will encourage and develop your awareness of the outdoors. It is a great resource for SAR volunteers, law enforcement officers, military personnel, property owners, hunters, naturalists, and everyone else. Through explanations, illustrations and many pictures from actual searches for missing persons, this book describes methods and techniques used by tracking personnel to do the following:Become familiar with the terminology of trackingDispel misconceptions about trackingSelect and use tools of the tracking tradeRecord and document tracking informationLearn how to age tracks and signGet an introduction to animal trackingManage light and shadow to your advantageFind, follow and interpret tracks and signLearn about improving your clue and evidence awarenessReceive tracking information about footwear and bare feetUnderstand what to look for on various ground coversDevelop useful tracking information about vehiclesIt is written to cover many basic topics in tracking, signcutting and awareness as applied in search and rescue. This 312-page full-sized 2nd-edition manual is based on the current standards for the F.A.S.T. course approved by the Virginia Search and Rescue Council and certified by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management. It was written, printed and published in the USA. It has over 140 pictures (mostly color) and 60 illustrations. It also includes a glossary, index, and bibliography.