About Susan Morse

Throughout North America, Susan Morse is highly regarded as an expert in natural history and tracking. Ms. Morse has more than thirty-five years experience monitoring wildlife and interpreting wildlife habitat use. Her research has focused on cougar, bobcat, black bear, and Canada lynx.

She has given workshops on wild felids and other carnivores to a wide range of audiences, including the general public, conservation leaders and professional biologists.

In 2001 Morse received the Franklin Fairbanks Award for her lifelong creative and dedicated service to enriching the awareness and understanding of the natural world among the residents of New England. She and Keeping Track® were recently recognized by the Adirondack Council for decades of conservation work in the Champlain basin bioregion.

Ms. Morse has authored numerous articles and authors a regular column on wildlife in Northern Woodlands Magazine. Her work has been featured in many other publications, including Smithsonian, Audubon, Amicus Journal, Forest Magazine, Wild Earth, Vermont Life, Adirondack Life, The Nature Conservancy, and Ranger Rick, as well as on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition”. Morse’s life work and photography is highlighted in The Woods Scientist by Stephen Swinburne (Houghton Mifflin, 2002). Ms. Morse is currently under contract with Princeton University Press, publisher for her upcoming two-volume text covering the monitoring of selected focal wildlife species.

Sixteen years ago, Morse founded Keeping Track®, an organization devoted to training professional biologists and citizen scientists alike in wildlife monitoring skills. Keeping Track’s mission is to empower multiple stakeholders to use their knowledge to detect, record and monitor the status of wildlife and wildlife habitat in their communities. Data collected by Keeping Track teams has influenced the conservation of over 30,000 acres of habitat in twelve states and Quebec.