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Brian Booth showing some
young trackers a red maple cut down by a beaver
Brian Booth is an animal tracking enthusiast & teacher,
adventurer, and lover of wilderness & the outdoors. He
currently resides in Washington, but has also lived in
Connecticut, Idaho, California, Arizona, Illinois,
Florida & Rhode Island, and has criss-crossed remote
wilderness areas across the U.S. & Canada. He has
trained with tracking experts Sue Morse, Tom Brown Jr.,
Jon Young, David Moskowitz, Paul Rezendes and John
McCarter.He assists running tracking workshops for
Wilderness Awareness School in Duvall, WA, and is a team
leader in the Cascades Citizens Wildlife Monitoring
Project, a snow tracking project that is generating data
for construction of a series of wildlife overpasses and
underpasses on Interstate 90 near Snoqualmie Pass, a
critical wildlife migration corridor in Washington’s
Cascade Mountains. The project’s goal is to allow
wildlife to safely migrate across the pass without
attempting to enter the roadway, which up till now has
been an all-too-common occurrence that is harmful to
wildlife populations and hazardous to drivers as well.
Brian has served as an officer on the U.S. Navy
submarine USS Drum, backpacked the 2,600-mile Pacific
Crest Trail, is a contributing author to
"Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills" (sometimes
referred to as "The Bible" of mountaineering), and is a
singer-songwriter with three full length CDs to his
credit.
In addition to tracking and performing music, Brian
also enjoys gathering wild edible plants & mushrooms,
teaching CPR & first aid with the Red Cross, instructing
mountaineering and mountaineering first aid, and works
in the design of commercial airplanes at The Boeing
Company.
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