Tracking Class at Monahans Sandhills State Park

In the second photo you can see we cleared the loose sand away and found the plugged tunnel hole, which had slightly denser packed sand. Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.

This plant was probably pulled out of the ground by something relatively large like a Collared Peccary, then had its roots gnawed by smaller rodents. Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.

In the hind tracks see how toe 1 is lower than all the others. Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.

We identified this as a Pocket Gopher trail based on the walk or trot gait, and the width and length of this gait. I don't know if we can get down to a particular species. Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.

We think this extremely small bounding gait was from a shrew. Desert Shrew is the only species in range. Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.

These were by far the most common tracks in the park, and this was one of the best examples I found. Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.

We found these two mandibles that we believe are from a Grasshopper Mouse in the Great Horned Owl pellets previously pictured. I don't know if they are from Mearns' Grasshopper Mouse or Northern Grasshopper Mouse. In fact, they could be from two different individuals. So I'm leaving the ID at Onychomys sp. for now. Can anyone tell?

Matt made an incredible find of 30-40 Great Horned Owl pellets under a single tree! Taken during Earth Native Wilderness School's Wildlife Tracking Intensive 2013-2014.