This seminar will focus on helping handlers better understand the overall odor picture (both in trial and in practice). If you've ever set a hide and wondered why it didn't work the way you thought or seen your dog working a problem and not understood why it took them so logn to solve it, this seminar is for you. We will discuss different aspects of the search enviornment, how to plan searches that prepare your dogs for different airflow/environmental scenarios and cover how you can use this knowledge to make confident assessments of your dog's behavior on your trial days.