This is the blog for the Tracking merit badge group of BSA troop 11, Penn's Woods Council. Part of the merit badge is taking pictures of animals and their tracks, so I thought it might be nice to be able to post your pictures and talk about them. This first post explains why it is good to learn tracking and a few things about the merit badge. I hope that most of the blog will be your pictures and discussions about what you have found and learned.
Why Learn Tracking?
Lots of stuff in scouts has to do with learning about the outdoors. These things are worth learning because they make you a person who is at home outdoors. Many people have no idea how to tell a birch from a finch, and so they feel out of place out of doors, and don't like to go there. As a scout you may not learn how to tell all the types of sparrows and goldenrods apart, but you may learn to tell if a track is made by a cat or a dog or a skunk, and that is (for some people anyway) worth knowing.
What to do on this blog
If you take any pictures you would like to have me post here either send them to me or let me know and I will set permissions so you can post them yourself. Try to include all the information you can. For an animal picture (working towards your 30 points) tell us what you think it is and where you took it. You don't need to take pictures of the tracks you follow, but if you do send in pictures tell us what it was, where it was going, and how fast it was moving.
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