Draper Natural History Museum

Draper Natural History Museum staff and volunteers conduct long-term ecological research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and keep up with all the wildlife and science news and issues related to this world-renowned, natural treasure. Keep up with Draper Museum fieldwork and Greater Yellowstone news and information here.

November 8, 2018

Museum Minute: The Beaver’s Role On The Landscape

Before the expansion of the West, there was an estimate of almost 600 million beavers throughout North America. But in the early…

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October 1, 2018

Introducing the Swainson’s Hawk

It’s summer, and you think you may have heard the scream of a Red-tailed Hawk. You look up, and see a bird…

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September 27, 2018

Museum Minute: Skulls of Wolves Can Tell A Story

Between 1995 and 1997, 41 wolves from Canada and Northwest Montana were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. Twenty years have passed and…

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Black-footed ferret. DRA.305.100
August 16, 2018

Museum Minute: The Black Footed Ferret Success Story

The black footed ferret is a fierce but tiny predator. They are typically under three pounds and 90 percent of their diet…

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A Short-eared Owl
August 6, 2018

Owls in Native American Cultures

We humans love owls. Why not? With their flat faces and forward facing eyes they look more like us than any other…

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Bighorn sheep exhibit
July 12, 2018

Museum Minute: The Bighorn Rams of Christmas Eve 2000

It’s Christmas Eve 2000. The curator of the Draper Museum of Natural History, Dr. Charles Preston and his wife were driving along…

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