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- Participants or teams will walk through a field and/or woodland course in a natural setting. The course is designed to simulate actual wildlife sign encounters while outdoors.
- The Hunting Wildlife Identification Challenge will be conducted with the participants or teams observing animal tracks, mounted (game) animals, reading wildlife signs and identifying them from one to fifty yards. Wildlife will be either mounted or tanned hides, depending on what is available; animal tracks can be original or molds made of the prints; the wildlife signs can be real or reproduced, including sounds or calls.
- To achieve the different levels, each participant will be asked to identify 20 animals, tracks or wildlife signs, each worth 15 points for a correct answer and zero for an incorrect answer. The Hunter Wildlife Identification Challenge has a possibility of 300 points per student.
- No wildlife identification books, encyclopedias or other written, taped or transcribed material can be used in this activity. Also, no talking will be allowed between the participants and instructors or other participants while on the course. The information in this activity has been taken from the NRA's The Hunter's Guide and the North Central Regional Hunter Education Manual, and other wildlife manuals.
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