Giving Back to the Land: Volunteering for public lands heals the spirit and the landscape By Corey Anco What comes to mind when you think about a fond memory of spending time in nature? Fishing with a grandparent? Filling your first tag? Maybe it’s a particular hike with friends or family. Whatever the memory, there […]
In the past, natural history museums sent staff and researchers on expeditions to collect specimens in the field. But when the Draper Natural History Museum officially opened its doors in the early 2000s, it wanted to try to avoid that practice. “We now know that can have drastic negative impacts when you potentially decimate the […]
The Clark’ s Nutcracker is a high mountain bird located in the Western U.S. The bird is pretty unique for its ability to cache said Corey Anco, the assistant curator of the Draper Natural History Museum. “Caching means whatever it doesn’t consume when it grabs seeds from a pine cone, it will hide in another location […]
As winter grips the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, things may appear a bit more ‘quiet’ than it does during the hustle and bustle of summer. Rivers and streams freeze and form waterfalls, snowpack accumulates on mountain tops, and grizzly bears retreat to their sleepy dens and await spring. But there is no time for hibernating at […]
The black footed ferret is a fierce but tiny predator. They are typically under three pounds and 90 percent of their diet is comprised of prairie dogs, which are usually bigger than them. The ferret’s fate is intrinsically linked to prairie dogs. Historically, black footed ferrets numbered in the tens of thousands across the Great […]
At the next Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition lecture, Assistant Curator Corey Anco explores the use of natural history collections to communicate science to the public. The free talk takes place Thursday, February 1, 12:15 p.m., in the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Coe Auditorium. “Natural history museums are uniquely positioned to provide […]