Join Us for Our 360 Yellowstone Adventure LIVE!!! The live event may be over, but that doesn’t mean you missed it! Check out the video below. Join the Buffalo Bill Center of the West way out west in Wyoming for a 360 adventure as we explore the habitats and animals of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. […]
The Clark’ s Nutcracker is a high mountain bird located in the Western U.S. The bird is pretty unique for its ability to cache said Corey Anco, the assistant curator of the Draper Natural History Museum. “Caching means whatever it doesn’t consume when it grabs seeds from a pine cone, it will hide in another location […]
Wildlife consultant and ethnobotanist John Mionczynski is the featured speaker at the next Draper Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition lecture at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Titled Some Interesting Plants of the Ancient People of the Yellowstone, the free presentation takes place on Thursday, June 6, at 12:15 p.m. in the Center of […]
Mountain lions, wolves, and grizzly bears are all thriving in Wyoming. But only a couple of decades ago, these large carnivores were not doing so well. Wyoming Public Radio‘s Kamila Kudelska sat down with Dan Thompson, the large carnivore manager at Wyoming Game and Fish Department, to learn about the collaboration between Game and Fish […]
On Thursday, April 6, 12:15 p.m., the Draper Natural History Museum’s popular, free Lunchtime Expedition lecture series opens with a talk by Andrew Hansen, PhD. A professor in the Ecology Department of Montana State University-Bozeman, Hansen presents A Framework for Sustaining Yellowstone and America’s Other Wildlands. With wildlands—large tracts of intact nature—being lost globally despite […]
Current Exhibition Yellowstone: Wilderness in a Box The Art of James Prosek January 20–June 4, 2017 Cody Firearms Museum Breezeway The special exhibition Yellowstone: Wilderness in a Box, showcases the work of internationally-renowned artist James Prosek. A major contributor to the Center’s 2016 exhibition Invisible Boundaries: Exploring Yellowstone’s Great Animal Migrations, Prosek’s pieces from that exhibition, regrouped […]