Ty Cunningham

CMDR TY “YODA” CUNNINGHAM, M.S. #0481-R Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal & Tactical Commander (Ret.); Co-Owner, Lost Trail Ranch LLC, Director of Operations, Lost Trail Ranch (LTR)-HQ Alaska, and the LTR-HQ Scout Tracking Operations School™; Co-founder and Member, International Society of Professional Trackers (ISPT); Tracking Historian, Archive and Library of Tracking Research (ALTR); Charter Member, The Frederick Russell Burnham Historical Society of Tucson. Ty is an indigenous Saami Alaskan (Mountain Saemie), recognized animal/human forensic criminologist, a former supervisory criminal investigator, protective intelligence investigator, and one of the world's foremost experts in the field of animal and human tracking forensics and animal and human behavioral psychology in footfall evidence. As a specialist in animal and human behaviors and their social relationships within and without a group. Thus, any biological entity and its relationships to humans. His motto, "Helping nature with human problems--step by step™" stems from his work within the federal government. He, therefore, researches animal behavior conspecifics, and heterospecifics with human behavior to isolate criminal culpability in enforcement. He created and pioneered the science of Spoorology™ (track and trackway forensics) while attending the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. As a retired Supervisory Deputy and Tactical Commander from the U.S. Marshals Service, Cunningham, has over 40 years of combined law enforcement and military experience. While a Marshal, he spent over twenty-one years training military and police in close combat strategy, tactics, and all-weapon synchronization; four years as commander of the Alaska U.S. Marshals Tactical Tracking Unit (TTU), four years as patrol captain of the Wyoming U.S. Marshals Mounted Tracking Unit (MTU), and three years as an entry operator with the Anchorage Regional FBI S.W.A.T. Team.