A vocabulary of landscape — a landscape of words
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trail
In tracking, the continuous sequence of sign left by an animal moving through the landscape — not just footprints but disturbed vegetation, scuffed bark, broken spider webs, displaced stones, bent grass, and the faintest compressions in duff.
Etymology
Old French trailler, to tow or drag, from Latin tragula, a dragnet. Something pulled through the landscape leaves a trail.