Now is the time of year when black bears have their incredibly flexible noses sniffing out nuts, bugs and other high-calorie foods. They're trying to pack on the pounds they need to get themselves and their yet-to-be-born cubs through the long winter’s nap. Meanwhile, at Keeping Track, we’re busy feeding people’s curiosity about wildlife and inspiring them to protect the rich, secure habitats animals everywhere need. As the year winds down, please help us continue our work into next year with a donation today. Thank you!

As more and more people seek outdoor fun and exercise, wildlife can be driven away from vital habitats and their roles in maintaining healthy ecosystems. In this informative and often entertaining video, Sue Morse describes what happens when we treat local forests more like playgrounds and gyms. As always, she illustrates her talk with first-hand stories and exceptional wildlife photography. Delivered live to an audience in Vermont, this topic has never been more timely for anyone wanting to maintain the health and integrity of their local forests. One viewer said, "Such an important and relevant topic to spotlight -- the need for recreation lovers to do their part to protect wild places." Enjoy it, pass it around, and please use our Contact Form to tell us what you think!

Sue's latest show about what makes certain landscapes critical to wildlife and biodiversity is now available for free on YouTube. It's packed with stories based on Sue's decades of research, all against a backdrop of her renowned photographs of area flora and fauna. You'll learn how even what appear to be highly developed areas can host rich and vital pockets of wildlife -- and how we can ensure their survival. And be sure to use the comment box to let us know what you think about the show! Many thanks to the host of this fun and fascinating event, Declan McCabe of St. Michael’s College Center for the Environment. Heaps of heartfelt appreciation as well to our co-sponsors -- Vermont Family Forests, The Watershed Center, and Lewis Creek Association.

...the sun was warm, the sky was blue – as blue as my eyes, my mother said. But I soon learned that unchecked development continues eating away at our forest home. And that, thanks to climate change, life in what's left is harder than ever. Luckily, people like you want to safeguard forests, wildlife and biodiversity. Your continuing support for Keeping Track is needed so it can continue inspiring people to conserve healthy habitats for all living things.  Please join Keeping Track in saving critical habitats today.

Sue Morse delivered this webinar in early May and describes it as a "game-changer" because it exposes "bedrock truths of what we hadn't known about wildlife -- and which conflict many of our long-standing assumptions about protecting animals and habitats." Take a look, and enjoy not only its revelations about wildlife cooperation and social networks, but also Sue's trademark insights, wit and spectacular photography. Thanks to the Northeast Wilderness Trust and Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center for making it possible.

For 15 years Sue Morse's patient endeavors in the Arctic have put her close not only to caribou but, as her photos also show, polar bears, musk oxen, Arctic foxes, ptarmigan, and wolves. The Alaska Wilderness League recently invited her to give a presentation in its "Geography of Hope" series about her experiences and perspecitives of the vast wilderness caribou and others species inhabit and depend upon. Don't miss this opportunity to see Sue's remarkable images of these animals, and hear first-hand the intimate knowledge and wisdom that only comes from decades of "boots on the tundra" field research.