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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
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Fri Dec 06, 2019 12:34 am
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This print looks larger than the one in your picture and it's from my 90 lb Shepherd.
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moonspots Happy Curmudgeon
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 2456 | TRs | Pics Location: North Dakota |
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Fri Dec 06, 2019 8:26 am
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Bedivere wrote: |
This print looks larger than the one in your picture and it's from my 90 lb Shepherd. |
Awrite! Good reference. The only wild animal tracks I've personally seen are deer, moose, cat (with a paw size about the same as your example), and various little animals. Thanks for that.
Cat track, seen in ONP, September 2019.
Cat print - staircase trail
I followed the tracks along the river for maybe 100' (until they went into the underbrush), looking for any claw marks. Saw none so decided they were from a cat.
"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
"Out, OUT you demons of Stupidity"! - St Dogbert, patron Saint of Technology
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Bedivere Why Do Witches Burn?
Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 7464 | TRs | Pics Location: The Hermitage |
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Fri Dec 06, 2019 6:19 pm
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moonspots wrote: | Awrite! Good reference. The only wild animal tracks I've personally seen are deer, moose, cat (with a paw size about the same as your example), and various little animals. Thanks for that.
Cat track, seen in ONP, September 2019.
Cat print - staircase trail
I followed the tracks along the river for maybe 100' (until they went into the underbrush), looking for any claw marks. Saw none so decided they were from a cat. |
You're welcome, and you're right!
Compare your cat track to the canine tracks based also on shape. Notice that the overall outline of the cat track is more oval than the canines. Also, notice that the central pad is considerably wider relative to it's length than the canines and it is also more oval shaped. These are some characteristics of feline vs canine tracks that can help you identify them without relying on claw marks.
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BarbE Member
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Thu Dec 12, 2019 10:10 am
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On a Teanaway hike last Monday we came across these 4"+ tracks at approximately 4500'. They were frozen hard and a large group of tracks had congregated on a rock outcropping, a seemingly perfect lookout for prey. A very remote place with no signs of other humans or dogs. Our group was pretty certain they were wolf tracks.
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gb Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 6303 | TRs | Pics
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Thu Dec 12, 2019 1:13 pm
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BarbE wrote: | On the south ridge route to **** last Monday when we came across these 4"+ tracks at approximately 4500'. They were frozen hard and a large group of tracks had congregated on a rock outcropping high above ****, a seemingly perfect lookout for prey. A very remote place with no signs of other humans or dogs. Our group was pretty certain they were wolf tracks.
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Barb, better not to divulge a location specifically. Just attracts poachers.
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BarbE Member
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Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:48 pm
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OK!
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
That pack has already been collared and being tracked by WDFW.
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glenoid Member
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Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:29 am
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A set of tracks crossing the road then doubling back, disappearing into the woods again. No other tracks around.( Have seen a wolf 15 miles south of here, but never along on the Tucannon river.)
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Sky Hiker Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2007 Posts: 1469 | TRs | Pics Location: outside |
Friend of mine saw a wolf up Dickey creek this past September.
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pcg Member
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Fri Dec 20, 2019 1:44 pm
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Yes, beautiful cougar track. As the previous post stated, there are better and more reliable indicators than the absence of claw marks. It is not uncommon for claw marks to show in cat tracks if the substrate is slippery or if the animal is accelerating. In the latter case, deep claw marks can show in hind tracks (see photo below). And conversely, the above characteristics are useful for ID in those cases where canine tracks may not show claw marks, which is also not all that uncommon.
Here is a right hind print of a female cougar that was accelerating, hence she extended her claws for traction. The person who took the pic surprised three cougars on a dirt road. If you draw a horizontal line across the base of the heel pad and then draw a vertical line up perpendicular from it, you can see the asymmetry that is present in feline tracks, and clues you in that this is feline, despite the claw marks. Another telling feline characteristic is the triple lobe at the base of the heel pad. The heel pad in this print is smaller and narrower than the above cougar print because this is from a female (smaller heel pad than male) and is a hind track (narrower heel pad than front). The cougar print posted above is probably (I think) a right front track from a tom, based on the size of the heel pad.
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ale_capone Member
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Not my photo. From a few days ago where there are no confirmed packs, trails, and rarely a person. Probably an area capable of being inhabited. Wolf or cat?
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gb Member
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timberghost Member
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There was a time when cougar and wolf tracks were rarely seen. Now they are more common than ungulate tracks.
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Brushbuffalo Member
Joined: 17 Sep 2015 Posts: 1887 | TRs | Pics Location: there earlier, here now, somewhere later... Bellingham in between |
treeswarper wrote: | Wolf tracks have been seen south of Packwood, |
I saw a lone wolf along a logging road SW of Packwood about ten years ago. Only the second one I've seen, the first near Whitehorse in Yukon Territory.
Exciting! Wolves are to coyotes as ravens are to crows, or grizz are to blacks. Extraordinary vs. ordinary.
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
Passing rocks and trees like they were standing still
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General **** Member
Joined: 26 May 2014 Posts: 167 | TRs | Pics Location: Clark County, SW WA |
Now that the Washington State Forest Caribou are all but gone, isn't it time those pesky moose went too?
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September 18, 2019, 6:56pm
Wolf Packs
Dale Denny of Bearpaw Outfitters has guided hunts in northeast Washington for decades.
“In the last 10 to 12 years we have had packs, and the biggest change is that there is half as much game,” said Denny. “There has been a huge impact.”
“The moose have been hit hardest,” he said. “They’ve reduced the moose herd by 30 to 40 percent. When I guided hunters, we expected to see five bulls a day. Now if I can see a bull every three days, I’m doing good.”
The General primarily backpacks solo.
The General primarily backpacks solo.
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