Blue Fungus, Red Forests

Birds and Wildlife on the North Platte River

With Museum naturalist Jeff Stephenson, explore by canoe 32 miles of the North Platte River, bordered by spectacular bluffs. In one mellow afternoon you may see deer, antelope, blue herons, pelicans, and bald eagles.

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Flight of the Butterflies 3D

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This stunning 3D film follows the story of a scientist whose passion solved the mystery surrounding the migration of the monarch butterfly.

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July 29, 2010
They're small -- about the size of a grain of rice -- but the tiny pine bark beetle has killed over three million acres of lodgepole pine in Colorado and Wyoming.

In this Science Bite, Museum scientist Frank Krell explains how the combination of pine bark beetles, fungus, and people have turned many of the green forests in Colorado into a blanket of rust red.