The newest member of the Draper Museum of Natural History’s live raptor education program, an adult, female golden eagle, now has a fitting name: Kateri. The Draper’s program, called the Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience, is based at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center (soon to be the Buffalo Bill Center of the West) in Cody, Wyoming. […]
The Buffalo Bill Historical Center expands its public hours to a spring schedule of 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days beginning March 1. The schedule remains in effect through the end of April, when summer hours of 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily begin for the summer season. In addition to the five museums […]
He would be 167 years old on February 26, but William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody still has a very real presence in Cody, Wyoming, where the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (the just-announced new name of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center) celebrates the showman’s birthday with a free event Friday, February 22. The celebration […]
NOTE: Thank you to all who entered. Our eagle was named Kateri! The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Draper Natural History Museum in Cody, Wyoming, has announced the addition of a golden eagle to its Draper Museum Raptor Experience. The bird joins four other raptors (birds of prey) already in captivity at the Center: […]
Our golden eagle has a name! And the winning entry is… Kateri Thank you to the 290 people who submitted name suggestions in our golden eagle naming contest. The winning entry came from eight-year-old Chloe Hanson, whose favorite part of the Center is indeed the birds of our Greater Yellowstone Raptor Experience! Click here to […]
Fifty years ago, a publicity-shy scientist and writer with a passion for nature authored a book that propelled many Americans into a contentious public debate about pesticides and their use. The book was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, and the debate it triggered helped launch the modern environmental movement. “This book, by the unlikeliest of […]