To There & Back Again: The Annual Movement of Ungulates in the Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem By Tony Mong December 5, 2019 12:15 p.m. Join us for our December Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition lecture. Tony Mong presents To There & Back Again: The Annual Movement of Ungulates in the Eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. […]
Seeing and Hearing: The Greater Yellowstone Sights and Sounds Archive Originally published in Points West magazineSummer 2010 By Charles R. Preston, PhD Imagine a well-documented photograph, film clip, or even an audio recording of a dinosaur, saber-toothed cat, or ancient human. What if we could see the successive alternating subtropical, volcanic, and glacial landscapes that […]
A new exhibition is soon to take flight at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Draper Natural History Museum, Monarch of the Skies: the Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone and the American West. The project draws together past studies and the Draper’s own 10 years of research and field work in the sagebrush-steppe environment […]
Originally published in Points West magazineSpring 2018 Monarch of the Skies: The Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone and the American West By Charles R. Preston, PhD, and Bonnie Lawrence-Smith It was truly a dark and stormy night. The storm brought torrential rain, sleet, snow, golf-ball-sized hail, and wind—Wyoming-level wind! It had driven us from the […]
Anthropologist and popular speaker Larry Todd, PhD, acknowledges that every discovery in his chosen field of archaeology is exciting. Piecing together a richer picture of the past human interactions within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, though, is complex. Todd asserts that “larger integrative research programs offer our best methods for developing and evaluating interpretations of long-term […]
A photogenic mother bear who makes Grand Teton National Park her home has a fan club that stretches around the world. Known as “Grizzly 399,” she—and by extension her fellow grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone—are the subject of the book Grizzlies of Pilgrim Creek: An Intimate Portrait of 399, the Most Famous Bear of […]