Yesterday we shared Walter J. Breckenridge’s recollection of his trip to the Superior National Forest near Winton, Minnesota to observe the courting ritual of the Spruce Grouse in the spring of 1931. In his autobiography, My Life in Natural History,…
An excerpt from My Life in Natural History, by Walter J. Breckenridge, former preparator (1926-1946) and director (1946-1970) of the Bell Museum of Natural History, illustrated by images from the Bell Museum records at the University Archives: “Back in the…
A close friend of mine recently shared a quote from her 2-year-old son, “Bears can scare people, Mom. And monsters, and snakes, and lions. All sorts of animals can scare people.” After I read his realization, I had to laugh,…