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Appendix 2: CWMP TRACK MEASUREMENT
GUIDELINES
Length and Width: Use track minimum outline
Group length: measured from the back of the track furthest back in a set of 4 tracks to the front
of the track furthest forward. NOT USED FOR walking or trotting gaits (groups of 2)
Stride: measured from a place on one foot (such as the "center of the front left") to the same
place on the same foot the next time it appears in the trail.
Straddle: distance from the outside of the leftmost track in a trail to the outside of the rightmost
(using minimum outline)
Center Straddle: distance from the center of the leftmost track in a trail to the center of the
rightmost.
Trough: width of the entire disturbance created by an animals trail (greater then the minimum
outline of the tracks which may be indecipherable in some instances)
