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 insights into the lives of migrating animals. For the special exhibition Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations [on view at the Center in 2016], […]
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. American writer Georgia Fraser saw the model for this work in Proctor’s Paris studio in early 1900. It was still a plaster, not having been […]
“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 Middleton, wildlife biologist This belief – that animal migrations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem are essential to the area’s vitality – inspired wildlife biologist Arthur […]
Royal Challenge By T.D. Kelsey 1991 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 this bronze. His love of animals came from his life in the West. Now, he is passionate about all wildlife and wildlife conservation throughout […]
Visitors to Wyoming stand a good chance of seeing mule deer and elk while touring the state, and may even be lucky enough to spot bighorn sheep or moose, but the migrations of these and other ungulates are in widespread decline across the globe. At the next Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition, Dr. Matthew […]
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 mountain lion and a carved wooden elk head. The artists of this piece are Ray Hatfield, Dwayne Johnson, and Duane Mittlieder of Nature’s Design Taxidermy. […]