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What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs

Russell, Sharman Apt

Paperback

Environmental StudiesZoology

ISBN10: 0231215991
ISBN13: 9780231215992
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

Winner, 2025 New Mexico Book Award in the category of Nature / Environment / Animals / Pets

Did a red fox pass this way? Could that be a bobcat print there in the dirt? Do those tracks belong to a domestic dog or a coyote? Combining lyrical memoir with an introduction to wildlife tracking, What Walks This Way explores the joys of learning to recognize the traces of the creatures with whom we share our world.

The nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife--mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice--near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. With wit and compassion, she guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks left by browsing deer, predatory weasels, and inquisitive bears, skunks, and raccoons. Closely observing these traces, Russell also finds community, a sense of place, and a renewed connection with the nonhuman world. She explores the health of mammal populations in North America and questions common wildlife-management practices, calling for new approaches that better reflect current understandings of ecology. Above all, What Walks This Way is a celebration of all the wild animals secretly, stubbornly, and triumphantly roving through our cities, suburbs, and countryside.

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