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.

September 17, 2012

Isham, Our Resident Gentleman, and I

My feelings for Isham were based initially on my feelings for red-tailed hawks in the wild. Being the most common soaring hawk…

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September 13, 2012

I Have the Best Job in the World

Let me begin by saying I wanted this volunteer job ever since seeing the program that HawkQuest, a raptor education program from…

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September 5, 2012

Announcing a new era… of blogging, anyway

As much as we all hated to see Sarah head back to school and abandon us here at the Draper Museum Raptor…

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August 27, 2012

Back In The Saddle Again

Well, the summer is almost over. Brandon and Sarah have returned to the University of Wyoming and should have completed their first…

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August 23, 2012

Sarah the Intern, signing off

This morning I put on my work shirt, then giggled when I realized it was the first shirt I bought to work…

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A silhouette of Suli, the turkey vulture
August 19, 2012

It’s Update Time! News about our birds

By Sarah the Intern I know what you’re thinking. “Gasp! This isn’t Monday already is it?! I need to go do Monday…

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