The land is full of life, and full of stories, at all times of year. Honing your curiosity, critical awareness, and intuition as a tracker can yield incredible insight on these other lives and stories. This workshop will feature some basics of pacific northwest track and sign, focusing on the art of tracking as a mode of inquiry mostly forgotten in the contemporary world. This workshop will also cover bird language: learning to notice the character of different bird calls to ascertain what might be happening in the immediate environment. They see much that we don’t, and have much sharper attention, so if we can pay attention to them, we can learn what is beyond our own senses.