native species

Aline W. Skaggs Wild Utah I first heard rumblings of a Utah themed exhibit back in 2014. The exhibit was always to be in the eastern portion of the zoo, previously only viewable to guests via the train. By 2014, the zoo had just opened African Savanna – the final project from the zoo’s 2010...

Today I went to the Blue Hills Trailside Museum in Milton, Massachusetts. The museum is essentially a small nature center with indoor and outdoor animal exhibits, located on the 7000-acre Blue Hills reservation. The museum’s collection is made almost entirely of rescued native wildlife, but they...

For a number of years now, Roger Williams Park Zoo has been involved in conservation work for the timber rattlesnake, an endangered species native to New England. Recently, one of the zoo's herpetology keepers published some new research on the zoo's timber rattlesnake conservation projects, and...

Please note that this review is from a visit in early May, so some of this may be a bit out of date. Review of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum https://www.desertmuseum.org Labor Day 1952 saw the grand opening of this fascinating attraction located outside of Tucson, Arizona. It was...