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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We would like to thank the production team at UC Press for their enthusiasm, patience, and attention to detail. Thank you to Anne Hawkins for continued support, patience, humor, and deftly negotiating another contract. We'd also like to thank Liz Snair and Alex Huryn, who shared images of mammal tracks and scats, as well as Rick Truex, wildlife biologist for Sequoia National Forest, William J. Zielinski and Ric Schlexer at the Redwood Sciences Laboratory of the USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station, Preston Taylor, Casey McFarland, and Neal Wight for their support and providing us with access to their track plate collections.

While juggling way too much at UC Davis, many have encouraged me and, at times, even carried me: Heiko Wittmer, Jacob Katz and Kendra Johnson, Bjorn Erickson and Lisa Matsubara, Allison Olliver, Jen Hunter, Maria Santos, Katie Fleer, Phil Sandstrom, Marit Wilkerson, and all those others faithful to Sophia's. Huge thanks to those who support my tracking endeavors: Paul Rezendes, Paulette Roy, Louis Liebenberg, Adriaan Louw, Casey McFarland, George Leoniak, Brian McConnell, Nancy Birtwell, Fred Vanderbeck, and Keith Badger. And last, but not least, thank you to all my family for enduring support and patience.

Mark Elbroch

I'd like to thank Meghan Walla-Murphy, Robbie Olhiser, Stephen Mark Paulsen, Thea Rae Altman, Gary Sieser, Elizabeth Cohen, Preston Taylor, Stephanie Pappas of the Chelonian Science Foundation, the Dautch family, Briggitte Cahill, Arianna Palmisano, Jonathan Weber, and Seston Graham for their support, humor, and generosity in making this book happen.

Michael Kresky

I'd like to thank my wife, Ciel, and our new baby girl, Stella, for supporting my passion for wildlife and tracking.

Jonah Evans