Meeteetse's Ties to Early Conservation

Thanks for listening to “Meeteetse Stories” Season 4! In this episode, we are joined by Brain Beauvais with the Park County Archives to learn more about Meeteetse’s connection to early conservation in the United States. The episode focuses on the lives of A.A. Anderson and William Pickett.

To learn more about William Pickett’s life, watch this presentation by Brain Beauvais given to the Meeteetse Museums: https://youtu.be/G_A2jjQEu6s

To learn more about the firearms used by William Pickett in his bear hunting, watch this presentation given by Danny Michael, Curator of the firearms museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West: https://youtu.be/JXAUgWcujAQ

To learn more about the North American Model of conservation, listen to Season 2 Episode 2 of “Meeteetse Stories”

For more on the forest reserves, we suggest these sources:

https://www.fs.usda.gov/learn/our-history

https://www.neh.gov/article/frenemies-john-muir-and-gifford-pinchot

Natural Rivals: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and the Creation of America’s Public Lands by John Clayton

https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/conservation-versus-preservation

If you’re interested in becoming a member of the Meeteetse Museums, check out our website: https://meeteetsemuseums.org/

The music in this episode is “Blue Digression” by David Dellacroce from Free Music Archives, licensed under CC BY 4.0. or CC BY-SA 4.0.