Collections serve different purposes in different types of museums. Biological and paleontological specimens in natural history museums provide us with the record of life on earth. This record reveals changes in the presence, distribution, and relative abundance of plants and animals through time. It also allows us to explore how individuals of a species vary […]
“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 to suffer, you will remember these fine, wild views, and look back with joy to your wanderings in the blessed old Yellowstone Wonderland.” —John Muir[1] Many of the people who participated in […]
This summer, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Draper Natural History Museum and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition partner to offer a series of evening programs that focus on some of the region’s iconic wildlife. The wildlife program series takes place July 18, 22, and 30 at the Center of the West. Each begins at […]
From Points West magazine Originally published in Fall 2005 By Charles R. Preston, PhD, Chief Curator, Buffalo Bill Center of the West Founding Curator, Draper Natural History Museum “There’s one…no two…wait, there are five of them!” It was about 6:30 a.m. near the turnoff to the Slough Creek campground in the northeastern corner of Yellowstone […]