Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall/Winter 2016 Yellowstone Migrations – Elk, camera trap photograph by Joe Riis Joe Riis, a National Geographic magazine contributing photographer, offers viewers unprecedented […]
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Elk
Elk The Challenge; Elk-Challenge; The Challenge-Elk; American Elk; Elk Challenging; The Challenged Elk Proctor’s Elk was first modeled around 1899, probably before he left for his second trip to Paris. […]
Exhibition Review: “Invisible Boundaries”
“When I look at the map [of elk migration], I feel I can see Yellowstone’s beating heart. The routes are the veins and arteries, and the animals the blood.” -Arthur […]
Sculpture Guide: Royal Challenge
Royal Challenge By T.D. Kelsey1991 Location: South side of the building, toward the back Sculptor T.D. Kelsey captures the tension of head-to-head competition for dominance between two male elk in […]
Conservation of a taxidermy swallowtail butterfly
This is a report from conservation intern, Laura Siegfried: Visitors to the Draper Natural History Museum may remember the sculpture, at the bottom of the spiral ramp, of a taxidermy […]
Camp Monaco Prize awarded for groundbreaking wildlife migration study in Yellowstone
On Thursday, September 19, an international partnership announced the first winners of a new scientific prize supporting biodiversity studies in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The Camp Monaco Prize is an […]