Wildlife Event

A Keeping Track Wildlife Event gives people, especially families, an opportunity to enjoy an educational and inspiring evening. People from all walks of life are encouraged to attend, including loggers, skiers, hunters, hikers, farmers, local businesspeople, teachers, nature enthusiasts - anyone with an interest in wildlife and the desire to learn more.

The Wildlife Event serves as an introduction to conservation biology and habitat monitoring for local citizens and a means of recruiting community members into a local monitoring program. At the Wildlife Event, the public can browse an extensive table display consisting of track molds, examples of wildlife sign, pelts, skulls, feet, and other materials related to tracking and monitoring. The importance of wildlife travel corridors is demonstrated through sample maps showing occurrences of wildlife sightings and sign. Participants can ask questions of Keeping Track's expert staff. Keeping Track founder and Program and Research Director Susan Morse presents a spectacular show of her slides that introduces participants to Keeping Track's methodology and the importance of landscape-level planning for wildlife conservation, and incorporates an interactive and moving segment on carnivore biology and ecology. Susan is a nationally recognized naturalist and habitat specialist with thirty years of experience tracking and interpreting wildlife uses of habitat.

Keeping Track can assist host organizations in promoting a Wildlife Event. We have available photos, sample press releases, and sample posters that local groups can use in their own promotion. We have found that multi-faceted promotion (posters, print media, radio, mailings, school hand-outs, etc.) of the Wildlife Event can draw an audience of over 200 people, even in the smallest communities.

For general information on Keeping Track and Wildlife Events, please contact the main office at (802) 434-7000, or info@keepingtrack.org. To schedule a Wildlife Event, please call Susan Morse at our field office at (802) 899-2023.