Here’s what happens when a scientist and a photographer win the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Camp Monaco Research Prize. They recruit an artist—and a filmmaker, of course—and all four are instrumental in an extraordinary exhibition, Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations, now scheduled to travel to the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural […]
“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 […]
In the second of a three-part lecture series presented by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Draper Natural History Museum, award-winning wildlife photojournalist Joe Riis presents Photographing Greater Yellowstone’s Migratory Elk. The free program takes place Tuesday, July 26, 6:15 p.m. in the Center of the West’s Coe Auditorium. […]
The combined efforts of scientists, photographers, and artists have greatly impacted environmental conservation in the United States and, arguably, the world over. Yellowstone National Park was established as the world’s first national park in 1872 following the famous expedition into the area led by scientist Ferdinand V. Hayden. This trip yielded documentation of Yellowstone’s geological […]
Dynamic filmmaker Jenny Nichols is the presenter at the next Buffalo Gals Luncheon at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Her work on films for conservation issues brought her to a project that is the focus of a major special exhibition at the Center of the West this summer. The Buffalo Gals Luncheon takes […]