Squatcher's Guide to Tracking: How to Stalk the Elusive Ape—and Anything Else that Moves in the Woods

Stories of “wild hairy men of the wood” have been part of North America’s history for hundreds of years. Books and television shows about Bigfoot (Sasquatch) have introduced this mystery to many people, some of whom enjoy doing their own field research. Charles Lamica learned to find and follow a track during hundreds of search and rescue operations during his twenty-two years as an Alaska State Trooper. Now, as an investigator with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), he uses his skills to help search for North America’s most elusive forest dweller. As this book says, if it moves on the ground, it leaves a trail, whether it’s Sasquatch or any of the other creatures living all around us. Lamica gives the reader an honest and easy-to-understand introduction to the art of tracking—how to discover clues, how to use a tracking stick, and how to interpret what the clues are say- ing. Along the way, he shares some stories from his days as a trooper in the “Last Frontier” and some insights into what the BFRO’s expeditions have revealed about Sasquatch.