Eco-tracking : on the trail of habitat change / Daniel Shaw ; with photographs by Melanie Keithley, Jon Livingston MacLake, and the author.

Includes index.

Becoming a citizen scientist and eco-tracker -- Sidebar: Map your habitat -- Sidebar: Map your neighborhood's wild habitat -- Sidebar: Sustainable living -- Out your door and into the environment -- Sidebar: Maintaining a field journal -- Sidebar: Keeping species lists -- Sidebar: Reading the land -- Ecological drivers change habitat -- Activity sidebar: Build a weather station -- Habitat and wildlife -- Activity sidebar: Make a track pit -- Biological diversity -- Activity sidebar: Setting pitfall traps -- Healing a wounded land -- Activity sidebar: Joining forces for a better environment.

This is a book about paying attention to your habitat and how it is connected to the environment. The environment is where you are. To be in a habitat does not require a trip to a rain forest or a national park. To become an eco-tracker, all you need to do is observe and record what you see today, what you see tomorrow, and what is different between those two points in time. Then you look for what caused that change. You can keep the information yourself or you can share it with scientists who use what you see to better understand things like global climate change or how hawks migrate. When you share your findings with scientists, you become a citizen scientist. This book shows you how, as an eco-tracker and citizen scientist, you can learn about and care for a changing planet.