Ecologist Sue Morse To Train New Group Of Conservation Volunteers

Courtesy/Sue Morse

Sue Morse on her mule, exploring the Western wilderness. Morse says the Eastern Wilderness is being left behind.

Soon groups of Vermonters organized by two separate non-profits, The Willowell Foundation, and the Northeast Wilderness Trust, will undergo a unique training with famed wildlife ecologist Sue Morse.

For almost two decades, Morse and her organization, Keeping Track have been training citizen scientists to collect data that's later used by conservation experts to protect wilderness areas and the species that live there.

Keeping Track says data collected by their volunteers has influenced the conservation of 30,000acres of land.

Sue Morse has been an ecologist for over 30 years, and VPR's Mitch Wertlieb recently visited her at her writing cabin on her home turf, Wolfrun in Jericho.

Click listen to hear the interview. 

Keeping Track

Willowell Foundation

Northeast Wilderness Trust

Keeping Track will be presenting ROOM AT THE TOP: The importance of wolves and other large predators in maintaining healthy ecosystems, at Saint Michael's College's Ross Sports Center on Tuesday October 11 at 7 p.m.