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Montana’s Pioneer Botanists
Jack has written the introduction to Montana’s Pioneer Botanists, a long-awaited publication of the Montana Native Plant Society. Edited by Rachel Potter & Peter Lesica, this beautiful book includes biographies of Montana’s iconic plant collectors written by some of today’s most respected naturalists and scientists. To find out more, visit...
Read MoreTitans of the Ice Age Exhibit
This February through May, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane will be featuring a major exhibit assembled by Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History. Titans of the Ice Age fills four large galleries with all things mammoth and mastodon, and Jack will be doing a presentation and leading a field trip in celebration of our area’s close connection to the scientific history of the Columbia Mammoth. For more information visit...
Read MoreFebruary 22 – The Return of the Columbia Mammoth
Based on an essay that appeared in Nisbet’s book Visible Bones plus extensive further research and updates, this talk will focus on the story of the Hangman and Pine Creek discoveries in 1876. They resulted in North American’s first mounted mammoth at the Field Museum and the type specimen of Mammut columbi at the American Museum of Natural History, as well as ongoing activity in the scientific world. For details go to...
Read MoreApril 22 – Exploring Washington’s Mammoth Steppe
Dr. Dan Fisher of the University of Michigan, who has worked on woolly mammoth sites in Siberia, will join Jack on a bus trip to the Hangman Creek site where the Coplen brothers unearthed the bones of multiple Columbia mammoths. We will continue on to Steptoe Butte to consider what the landscape might have looked like when these giants roamed the Palouse. Limited space. For registration contact David Brum, Adult Education and Events Coordinator at David.Brum@northwestmuseum.org
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