Bear 104 was a female grizzly bear who made her home on the edge of Yellowstone National Park and Shoshone National Forest, near a very… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Grizzly bear
Originally featured in Points West in Winter 2012 Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) Each year, visitors to the Greater Yellowstone region cite the grizzly bear… Read More
Points West Online: Bear-ly Making It
Originally published in Points West in Spring 2002 Bear-ly Making It: Can Homo Sapiens and Ursus Arctos Horribilis Make History and Coexist? Ed. note: More… Read More
Buffalo Bill Center of the West curators collaborate on updated version of historic book
After a trip to northwest Wyoming in 1899, Ernest Thompson Seton published Wahb: The Biography of a Grizzly through a series of three articles for… Read More
Treasures from Our West: Grizzly bear exhibition
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2012 Grizzly bear exhibition in the Mountain Meadow Environment While individual museum objects can be treasures in… Read More
Sculpture Guide: Big Hal
Big Hal By Michael Coleman Modeled 2002, cast 2003 Location: Yellowstone Regional Airport in east Cody Michael Coleman’s grizzly bear sits mischievously on top of… Read More
Points West Online: On the Trail of a Bear Named Wahb
Originally published in Points West in Spring 2009 On the Trail of a Bear Named Wahb: Two Professors on a Bear Hunt By Jeremy Johnston… Read More
When “Real” Isn’t Real Enough: Virtual Reality in Museums
Imagine waking up one morning, hopping out of bed, and trotting into the Center’s Draper Natural History Museum. You can hear the sounds of wolves… Read More
Author Leslie Patten explores “The Wild Excellence” at May 7 Lunchtime Expedition
Living in wilderness among large predators and prey—grizzly bears, pumas, wolves, and elk—can give rise to some interesting stories. At a free talk May 7… Read More
Wild Wonderland: Yellowstone Arts and Crafts
“A thousand Yellowstone wonders are calling, ‘Look up and down and round about you…whatever your fate, under whatever ignorance or knowledge you may afterward chance… Read More
