Mendocino County Sheriff's

Man Tracking

According to the old TV show "Kung-Fu", unless you are a Shaolin Priest, you will move through this world leaving signs of your passage. In Search and Rescue, it is the job of the Tracker to follow these signs to find missing persons, or to help recreate what might have happened at a crime scene.

We call upon the services of Fernando Moreira to provide annual training courses in the special art of Mantracking, and we encourage all of our SAR members to attend the training sessions. We value the importance of Mantracking to our search and rescue efforts, and provide Fernando's P.O.S.T certified courses to our members, free of charge.

As a Certified Tracker, you are required to maintain a tracking log book, and must dedicate yourself to at least 30 hours per year of training to hone your tracking skills, and remain certified. You are also required to take and pass a recertification class every two years.

Take it from me, Bob Marsh, an old out-of-shape Computer Scientist, that the training is not all that demanding, and the experience is very rewarding. It's like seeing the world around you with a new pair of glasses, and your new skills might even save a life someday.