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Michael Neiger
Marquette, Michigan
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Art
and Science of Tracking Man and Beast, by Tom Hanratty (Medicine
Hawk Wilderness Skills, Inc., 1997)
Foundations
for Awareness, Signcutting and Tracking, by Robert Speiden
(dbS Productions, 2009)
This 240-page, full-size
manualFoundations for Awareness, Signcutting and Trackingwas
written by Robert Speiden, the course coordinator for the Virginia Department
of Emergency Management's Field Team Signcutter course.
Michael Neiger
Fundamentals
of Mantracking: The Step-By-Step Method, 2nd edition, by Albert
Taylor and Donald C. Cooper (Emergency Response Institute, 1990)
This 133-page, 3-hole-punched, paperback bookFundamentals
of Mantracking: The Step-By-Step Method, 2nd editionwas
written by a 31-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol who taught SAR
personnel how to man-track.
Michael Neiger
Man-Trackers
& Dog Handlers in Search & RescueBasic Guidelines and Information,
by Greg Fuller, Ed Johnson, and Robert J. Koester (DBS Productions, 2000).
This 98-page, paperback bookMan-Trackers
& Dog Handlers in Search & Rescue: Basic Guidelines and Informationpromotes
the use of tracking dogs in conjunction with man-trackers
Michael Neiger
MantrackingIntroduction
to the Step-By-Step Method, by Roland Robbins (Search and Rescue
Magazine, 1977).
This paperback bookMantracking:
Introduction to the Step-By-Step Methodpresents the fundamentals
of man-tracking as taught by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Michael Neiger
Patrolling
and Tracking, Australian Military Forces (Paladin Press 1988)
SAS
Guide to Tracking, Revised Edition, by Bob Carss, (The Lyons Press,
2008).
This 352-page, paperback bookSAS
Guide to Tracking, Revised Editionwas written by
a veteran of Britains elite Special Air Service (SAS) who learned
his man-tracking from experts in New Zealand, Brunei, and the Sahara.
Michael Neiger
Science
and Art of Tracking: Nature's Path to Spiritual Discovery, by
Tom Brown, Jr. (Penguin USA, 1999)
This 219-page, paperback bookScience
and Art of Tracking: Nature's Path to Spiritual Discoverywas
written by one of America's most highly-acclaimed outdoorsmen and survival
instructors.
Michael Neiger
Tactical
Tracking OperationsThe Essential Guide for Military & Police
Trackers, by David Scott-Donelan (Paladin Press, 1998)
This 170-page, paperback bookTactical
Tracking Operations: The Essential Guide for Military & Police Trackerswas
written by a 30-year veteran tracker who carried out aggressive, combat
man-tracking in the counter-insurgency bush wars of Rhodesia and South
Africa, learning much of his tactical man-tracking skills from elite
units such as the Rhodesian SAS, Selous Scouts, and South African Recces.
Michael Neiger
TrackingA
Blueprint for Learning How, 7th edition, by Jack Kearney (Pathways
Press, 1999)
This classic, 150-page, paperback bookTracking:
A Blueprint for Learning How, 7th editionwas written by
a U.S. Border Patrol agent who spent 15 years in the field tracking
border jumpers and conduction SAR tracking ops.
Michael Neiger
"Tracking and Countertracking, Evasion,
and Escape, and Survival" (Appendix F) in Long-Range
Surveillance Unit Operations (Army FM 7-93)
Tracking
ProgramTrack Aware, Tracker I, Tracker II, Sign CutterCourse
Materials, by Universal Tracking Services, Inc. (Universal Tracking
Services, Inc., 2004)
This spiral-bound course book serves as the
text for Universal
Tracking Services, Inc.' four levels of man-tracking courses. It
can be ordered directly from Universal Tracking Services, Inc.' store.
Michael Neiger
TrackingSigns
of Man, Signs of Hope: A Systematic Approach to the Art and Science of
Tracking Humans, by David Diaz (The Lyons Press, 2005)
This 242-page, hardcover bookTracking:
Signs of Man, Signs of Hope; A Systematic Approach to the Art and Science
of Tracking Humanswas written by a 20-year U.S. Army Special
Forces and Marine Corps veteran who learned his man-tracking skills
from indigenous trackers in Malaysia, Brunei, Botswana, and the Philippines.
He also trained under veterans of the Vietnam war who learned their
man-tracking skills directly from the Montagnards of Vietnam, Laos,
and Cambodia.
Michael Neiger
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In God's wilderness
lies the hope of the world,
the great, fresh, unblighted,
unredeemed wilderness.
John Muir, 1838-1914
Alaska Wilderness, 1890
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