Between 1995 and 1997, 41 wolves from Canada and Northwest Montana were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. Twenty years have passed and the population has grown close to 400 in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. The wolves are protected in the park but if they roam outside, states have their own set of regulations. The U.S. […]
It’s been more than two decades since the gray wolf was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. At the next Draper Museum Natural History Museum Lunchtime Expedition, Dr. Doug Smith takes an in-depth look at those first twenty years of the wolves’ presence in the Park. Smith is the Senior Wildlife Biologist in Yellowstone, and his […]
Art in the Garden this year has been a lot of fun for me and the families that participate in our free activities. Our first week’s theme was Cowboys and Cowgirls. The museum guests and I had a lot of fun decorating cowboy boots, creating popsicle stick cowboy and cowgirl dolls, and making our own […]
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 […]
The controversial reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995 caused reactions ranging from delight to fear and anger. At the next Draper Museum of Natural History Lunchtime Expedition, Dr. Douglas W. Smith, a top wolf expert and head of Yellowstone’s Gray Wolf Restoration Project, discusses wolf biology and history as well as the […]
02 March, 2012: I’ve often said that ecology is not rocket science…it’s far more complex. Ecology is the scientific study of the relationships of organisms to their physical environment and to one another. Sometimes these relationships are immediately obvious and intuitive, and sometimes they’re a bit more, well…complicated. Ecology and the case of sea otters […]