Welcome to the Georgia Trackers Alliance (GTA) Website. This is our public forum for discussing all tracking related topics. GTA is a non-profit corporation serving the Southeast United States.

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SPECIAL NOTICES:

  • The next Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services class on the East coast will be the APTG sponsered class in PA, March 26-28 at Raccoon Creek PA. Please see the Joel Hardin website for further information (link available on the right side of this page).
  • The next GTA monthly training event is Feb 20, 2010 (Location and time: TBD)

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The Georgia Trackers Alliance corporate mission is to provide trained personnel to respond to visual tracking resource requests by any official agency, government agency or qualified individual, and to provide tracking education to our members and the public in support of our corporate mission or to generally perpetuate the availability and use of visual tracking skills as a primary, first response resource for SAR and Law Enforcement requirements.Not all GTA members desire to make themselves available for emergency callouts by applying for a field team member position. These members are still an important part of this regional alliance and all types of tracking interests are welcome in GTA.

As many have said many times and in many ways, tracking is a perishable skill and many believe the skill can and has passed from certain societies in a single generation. A secondary objective of GTA is to support the growth of tracking skills in contemporary society in general, as a safeguard that the skill will persist for future generations.

GTA now has a mailing list of over 145 interested persons, more than 90 members on our private message board and over 60 of these members having attended some type of formal tracking training through GTA efforts. Combined, GTA students have participated in more than 2,480 hours of tracking-specific training and field time, and we maintain a passion and dedication to continuing to develop and maintain tracking skills in support of our corporate mission.

We hope that you will browse our site, consider our mission and vision, and generally feel comfortable bringing up any discussion here that will help promote the development of tracking skills, clarify tracking related topics, or help integrate tracking into our SAR and LE community in the Southeast United States.

We are also deeply appreciative of the support that Joel Hardin Professional Tracking Services (JHPTS), Appalachian Professional Tracking Group (APTG), Search and Rescue Tracking Institute (SARTI) and the International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT), provide to our group.

Thank you for visiting, and please feel free to leave a post on our website or contact me directly if you have any questions,

Mark Young  markjyng(at)cs.com
Director, Georgia Trackers Alliance