Jim Halfpenny Tracks Wild Animals
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JIM HALFPENNY TRACKS WILDLIFE
I'm 74 and have lived a lifetime of natural history adventure, especially tracking animals. The trail I've followed allowed me to track wild animals on all seven continents, Greenland, Japan, and New Zealand. Through all of these adventures I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and track specimens. Most of my life has been spent sharing that knowledge with others. Over the years I have taught classes across much of the US and Canada, China, Japan, England, France, Ecuador, Kenya and Tanzania.
Now, as the end of my trail nears, I need to share so much more, as fast as possible.
I need help.
I need your help to share the natural history of tracking!
Natural history is a dwindling science and many of us struggle to keep the knowledge of tracking wildlife by their footprints alive. While I have been very successful in sharing through my classes and writings including over 30 titles such as Charting Yellowstone Wolves: 25th Anniversary, Winter: An Ecological Handbook, Rare Mammal Moments, Yellowstone bears in the Wild, A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America and many more (see Halfpenny.me ), there is so much more that I need to share to archive my knowledge database. This includes curatorial work in the Track Museum and producing written and digital products.
We are an established and proven ecological, education company, A Naturalist's World, that serves as a teaching and research base (see TrackNature.com ). ANW is located in Gardiner, MT, the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Our headquarters, the Track Education Center, contains housing, kitchens and bathrooms for students or researchers. It also contains two classrooms and the world's largest tracking museum dedicated to forensic wildlife tracking (see TrackSceneInvestigation.com ). Students come for two-days to two-weeks. We also support a Residency in Nature 30-day program.
Track Education Museum showing portion of footprint collection and other educational materials.
So here’s the Plan!
GOALS
- Update curatorial and managerial needs of the Track Museum
- Produce a new series of written and digital products
NARRATIVE
Along the trail, I have been fortunate to accumulate a tome of natural history knowledge. Well, not a tome yet and that is where my problem lies. My life time has been spent sharing that knowledge with others but, as the end of the trail looms closer, I want to assure that my knowledge will not be lost.
Thinking and dreading about creating a tome of written knowledge in one book has kept me from writing that book. It is now time for a change in strategy! Instead of a tome, I have designed a series of written and digital products. These products will be less foreboding to produce but still share the knowledge. There will still be other books to write. So I have designed two projects.
The projects are Halfpenny Tracks and Halfpenny Helpers. Halfpenny Tracks is an expanding series of books, each covering a portion of my experience and knowledge about tracking. The first two are currently available on the Internet markets: Wolf Tracking: The Basics and Plate Tracking for Mammals.
Halfpenny Helpers will be a series of four-color charts presenting, through writing, pictures and charts, knowledge about other aspects of natural history that I enjoy. For example, some planned topics include Winter Shrub Key, Snow Science, Winter Track Patterns, Carnivore Skulls, Alpine Ecosystems and Lichens.
Tracks and Helpers will be first-person renditions of a lifetime in the outdoors. With the changing world, no one will ever get to live the life and walk the trail that I have. Few will ever track the seven continents, explore the tracking seasons and live nature at its prime as I have. Climate change helps guarantee my claim. I must share.
TITLES: HALFPENNY TRACKS SERIES
1) Track Plates for Mammals - completed and on the market
2) Wolf Tracking: The Basics - completed and on the market
3) Snow Tracking
4) Forensic Wildlife Tracking
5) Science and Experimentation in Tracking
6) Gaits and Following Track Trails
7) Bear Tracking: The Basics
8) Cougar Tracking: The Basics
BUDGET
Curatorial, Writing and Web Site Assistants
1 or more for a total of
40 hrs/wk for 12 weeks @ $20/hr = $9600
Curatorial, writing and digital Supplies =$1000
Additional work force = $1400
TOTAL = $12,000
A Naturalist’s World has been severely, financially impacted by COVID19. We have taught very few classes since March 15, 2020. However, ANW will cover my salary and pledge of $5000 to initiate work as soon as hiring allows. Any funds above our goal will be used to continue work on this monstrous project.
TIME FRAME
We have already sent out some job notices and expect to interview soon. Currently the initial $5000 will allow us to get about a five week head start. We plan to finish phase 1 of the project by the end of May (funding dependent). Additional writing and production will continue for long after that.
MY APPRECIATION
My life has been sharing knowledge having taught over 1000 two- to 35-day classes to 1000s of amateur to professional students, from summer to winter, from the desert to the alpine. Now my final goal is to permanently share that knowledge. It is difficult to ask for help, but I cannot complete this project without your help. I will be forever grateful for any help you can give me. The generations of naturalists that will benefit from your help will also be thankful.
Track Education Center housing classrooms, museum dorms, kitchens and bathrooms.
Classsroom
I'm 74 and have lived a lifetime of natural history adventure, especially tracking animals. The trail I've followed allowed me to track wild animals on all seven continents, Greenland, Japan, and New Zealand. Through all of these adventures I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and track specimens. Most of my life has been spent sharing that knowledge with others. Over the years I have taught classes across much of the US and Canada, China, Japan, England, France, Ecuador, Kenya and Tanzania.
Now, as the end of my trail nears, I need to share so much more, as fast as possible.
I need help.
I need your help to share the natural history of tracking!
Natural history is a dwindling science and many of us struggle to keep the knowledge of tracking wildlife by their footprints alive. While I have been very successful in sharing through my classes and writings including over 30 titles such as Charting Yellowstone Wolves: 25th Anniversary, Winter: An Ecological Handbook, Rare Mammal Moments, Yellowstone bears in the Wild, A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North America and many more (see Halfpenny.me ), there is so much more that I need to share to archive my knowledge database. This includes curatorial work in the Track Museum and producing written and digital products.
We are an established and proven ecological, education company, A Naturalist's World, that serves as a teaching and research base (see TrackNature.com ). ANW is located in Gardiner, MT, the north entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Our headquarters, the Track Education Center, contains housing, kitchens and bathrooms for students or researchers. It also contains two classrooms and the world's largest tracking museum dedicated to forensic wildlife tracking (see TrackSceneInvestigation.com ). Students come for two-days to two-weeks. We also support a Residency in Nature 30-day program.
Track Education Museum showing portion of footprint collection and other educational materials.So here’s the Plan!
GOALS
- Update curatorial and managerial needs of the Track Museum
- Produce a new series of written and digital products
NARRATIVE
Along the trail, I have been fortunate to accumulate a tome of natural history knowledge. Well, not a tome yet and that is where my problem lies. My life time has been spent sharing that knowledge with others but, as the end of the trail looms closer, I want to assure that my knowledge will not be lost.
Thinking and dreading about creating a tome of written knowledge in one book has kept me from writing that book. It is now time for a change in strategy! Instead of a tome, I have designed a series of written and digital products. These products will be less foreboding to produce but still share the knowledge. There will still be other books to write. So I have designed two projects.
The projects are Halfpenny Tracks and Halfpenny Helpers. Halfpenny Tracks is an expanding series of books, each covering a portion of my experience and knowledge about tracking. The first two are currently available on the Internet markets: Wolf Tracking: The Basics and Plate Tracking for Mammals.
Halfpenny Helpers will be a series of four-color charts presenting, through writing, pictures and charts, knowledge about other aspects of natural history that I enjoy. For example, some planned topics include Winter Shrub Key, Snow Science, Winter Track Patterns, Carnivore Skulls, Alpine Ecosystems and Lichens.
Tracks and Helpers will be first-person renditions of a lifetime in the outdoors. With the changing world, no one will ever get to live the life and walk the trail that I have. Few will ever track the seven continents, explore the tracking seasons and live nature at its prime as I have. Climate change helps guarantee my claim. I must share.
TITLES: HALFPENNY TRACKS SERIES
1) Track Plates for Mammals - completed and on the market
2) Wolf Tracking: The Basics - completed and on the market
3) Snow Tracking
4) Forensic Wildlife Tracking
5) Science and Experimentation in Tracking
6) Gaits and Following Track Trails
7) Bear Tracking: The Basics
8) Cougar Tracking: The Basics
BUDGET
Curatorial, Writing and Web Site Assistants
1 or more for a total of
40 hrs/wk for 12 weeks @ $20/hr = $9600
Curatorial, writing and digital Supplies =$1000
Additional work force = $1400
TOTAL = $12,000
A Naturalist’s World has been severely, financially impacted by COVID19. We have taught very few classes since March 15, 2020. However, ANW will cover my salary and pledge of $5000 to initiate work as soon as hiring allows. Any funds above our goal will be used to continue work on this monstrous project.
TIME FRAME
We have already sent out some job notices and expect to interview soon. Currently the initial $5000 will allow us to get about a five week head start. We plan to finish phase 1 of the project by the end of May (funding dependent). Additional writing and production will continue for long after that.
MY APPRECIATION
My life has been sharing knowledge having taught over 1000 two- to 35-day classes to 1000s of amateur to professional students, from summer to winter, from the desert to the alpine. Now my final goal is to permanently share that knowledge. It is difficult to ask for help, but I cannot complete this project without your help. I will be forever grateful for any help you can give me. The generations of naturalists that will benefit from your help will also be thankful.
Track Education Center housing classrooms, museum dorms, kitchens and bathrooms.ClasssroomOrganizer
Jim Halfpenny
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Gardiner, MT