Animal tracking and Naturalist interpretation
East Cascades & Columbia River Watershed Tracking
SCAT club is a casual gathering place for track, sign, and naturalist interpretation in the Columbia River Gorge, and beyond.
Our goal is to share knowledge and make the mystery of the natural world more visible.
Beaver Scat
Likley a Great Horned Owl who mistook a stick for a snake!
Black Bear yearling
Weasel bounding
A mighty Shrew
Raven draging it's heal
Salmon trophic-cycle and beaver sign along a river bed.
Look Closely! A Cascade Torrent Salamander.
Mummified remains of a young American Badger washed ashore.
An old track of a Cougar moving along the muddy trail.
A Cicada emerges in a Oak Savannah
An Ochre Sea Star, The keystone species of our tidal shores
A well scavenged Black Tail Deer, likely taken by a cougar, and scavenged thoroughly within a day.
Some young Black Tailed Deer bucks, practice thier jousting
A Black Bear moves through the sand
This mud caught these delicate Bushy Tailed Woodrat tracks.
A Douglas Tree Squirrel bounding across the road.
Gopher Snake
Elk on the left, Mule Deer on the Right
Potential Sierra Red Fox scat found in the Alpine.
A handsome Coyote scat.
A handsome Bobcat scat.
Beautiful Oak leaf caught in the wind.
Earth Worm scat!
Elk scat with a little grub starting to reuse the nutrients.
An Elk leg found at a Black Bear scavenge site.
A Larch Mountain Salamander. Endemic to SC WA
The skull of a Elk found at a Black Bear scavenge site.
An old but mighty Cougar scat
Close-up of a butterfly wing with iridescence reflections.
Black Bear claws
The track left from a Rattlesnake hunting at a Kangaroo Rat nest hole just out of frame.
Sierra Red Fox
A muddy Bobcat walks over crusty snow.
Plucked Red Tail Hawk feathers likley a prey item for a Great Horned Owl. With a few sheered feathers from a ground dwelling scavenger.
A Bald Eagle intimidates a Raven off a fresh Douglas Tree Squirrel stashed in the tree’s limbs
Sand with animal footprints and small scattered objects.
A suspicious Yellow Bellied Marmot, takes a peak.
a 5 whirl almost microscopic terrestrial mulusk endemic to the Columbia Gorge.
A female Western Blue Bird enjoys the sliver of Oak habitat that stretches North and South along the Eastern Edge of the Cascades.
What is your guess?
A Robin evolves mid hop into a Tree Squirrel
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