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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		How to Track Animals in the Winter
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-02-01 09:55:08
	Description:		Looking for a cure for cabin fever? In this episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist gives us some tips and tricks for viewing and documenting wildlife tracks and scat left in the snow. Snow tracks are silent witnesses that can tell us a lot about behavior and activity. Every night, life and death wildlife dramas unfold in the snow. When I was going to college, I carried a blank page notebook and pencils so that I could sketch what I saw, then go back and look it up at the library without forgetting or confusing important details. Today, with email, digital cameras, and camera phones, everyone has tools at their disposal to document a unique observation and report it. I thought this would be a good time to give you some pointers, to help me help you determine what you see in the snow. It helps if you get photos of both the footprint and the track. A footprint is a close-up of one individual print. Or at least, it may look like one print. In fact, many animals step in the
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