Animal Tracks You Can Identify in Your Yard Learn to decipher who's behind the flurry of activity happening near your home.

Learning how to identify animal tracks will help you understand what animals live nearby, how they use the area, what they eat, and more.

Chris Wellens, of the Prescott Farm Environmental Education Center in Laconia, shows how to identify animal tracks in the winter.

With some fresh snow on the ground, it’s a good time to get outside and see what critters are in your backyard.

Track sizes may vary, as well as the placement of the tracks, which depend on whether an animal is walking, running, trotting or jumping. You may also use nearby scat for other identification markers.

Learning to "read" the snow and identify wildlife prints is the focus of the upcoming Laramie Audubon Society outing scheduled for Feb. 11.

Join Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks staff at Pictograph Cave State Park to learn how to identify animal tracks in the snow and make your own plaster track.

With this information, you’ll be able to find and identify tracks and signs in the winter snow!

A snow-covered forest trail gives up the tracks of previous travelers — human and animal — and the frosty imprint betrays the identity of those who passed this way before.

Track sizes may vary, as well as the placement of the tracks, which depend on whether an animal is walking, running, trotting or jumping. You may also use nearby scat for other identification markers.