Research

As an integral unit of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Draper Museum of Natural History creates, accumulates, and disseminates knowledge about the natural environment and human cultures of the American West, focusing on the Greater Yellowstone region. Research is the cornerstone of any natural history museum as the vehicle for creating knowledge.

The Draper Museum of Natural History conducts, supports and encourages scholarly research that contributes new knowledge or synthesizes existing knowledge about the landscape, wildlife, and human presence within the Greater Yellowstone region. Comparative studies linking Greater Yellowstone systems with other important global centers of biodiversity and geological activity are also pursued. Interdisciplinary studies that provide insight into historical and contemporary relationships between human cultures and nature are especially encouraged.

Draper Museum of Natural History Research Projects for 2007

• Relationsips between grizzly bears and humans in eastern Yellowstone Ecosystem

• Cougar movements, demographics, and relationsips with humans in and around Tensleep Preserve

• Golden Eagle nesting ecology and ecosystem dynamics in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin
  
  For information regarding DMNH research activities, or if you are interested in participating in hands-on field research please contact Charles R. Preston