Keeping Track Teams to Collect Data

When: February 11, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Where: Wild Forests, Various Locations, Essex, NY and Jericho, VT

Two teams of citizen scientists are being trained this year to monitor the presence and movement of wildlife in the Champlain Valley. The Keeping Track training program will teach students to detect and interpret wildlife tracks and sign and collect data about bears, bobcats, moose, and other animals. The information will help us identify key habitats between the Adirondack and Green Mountains, a high priority linkage for conservation. Trainings begin in New York in January 2012. Anyone interested in learning to “read” the forest and monitor wildlife presence is encouraged to enroll.

Saturday, January 7, 2012 is the first day-long field training for participants in the Keeping Track course sponsored by the Northeast Wilderness Trust. Program dates for the 2012 course are:

Saturday, January 7-Witness Draw, Jericho, VT
Saturday, February 11-Bobby Knob, Jericho, VT
Friday, March 9-evening foot morphology class, Westport, NY
Saturday, March 10-Split Rock, Essex, NY
Saturday, April 14-site TBA, Essex, NY
Friday, September 7-evening focal species class, Westport, NY
Saturday, September 8-Pok-o-Moonshine, Keeseville, NY
Sunday, October 14-Moose Wallows, Jericho, VT

Susan Morse, founder of Keeping Track and world-renowned wildlife expert, will lead the tracking sessions. The Trust is also organizing a series of special-topic talks and outdoor natural history workshops entitled “Wild and Connected” that will be free for Keeping Track program participants.

Anyone interested in learning about wildlife is encouraged to enroll. Tuition is $525, and generous scholarships are available. To register or for more information, contact Elizabeth Lee at or 518.962.4756.

To learn more about Keeping Track, a nonprofit whose mission is to inspire community participation in the long-term stewardship of wildlife habitat, visit http://www.keepingtrack.org/

Download Keeping Track registration form.

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