I'm an environmental historian who specializes in predators. I mostly research coyotes but I love any wildlife with big teeth or weird fish. I make short documentaries on my YouTube channel Wildlife History and I write stuff at wildlifehistory.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsTb-Mztb
History of Grizzly Bears on the Great Plains is published! Go check it out.
History of Coyote Bounties! is published. Go check it out here. As always if you like my videos, please retweet and subscribe! Please and thank you!
Kansas' Lost Wildlife is published! It tells a brief story about how Kansas lost some of its most important species. I'm trying to grow the channel, so please share the video if you wouldn't mind. I hope you like it!
If you've ever wondered what megafauna we used to have in Kansas, I've got a video for you! Coming tonight, Kansas’ Lost Wildlife will give you a brief introduction our historic wildlife that I'll expand on throughout the year.
#kansas #histodons #envhist #blackbear #elk #grizzlybear
📷's from the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service
I found this historical footage of a bear cub chasing a fawn. It's super adorable while they're both babies.
Source: National Archives video edited by me
I remember some people questioning (my admittedly weak at the time) argument that sometimes "prairie wolves" or "wolves" in sources meant #coyotes. I feel so freaking vindicated right now! From the Kansas Herald of Freedom on 04/07/1855.
I just found out about The First Migrants from the University of Nebraska Press and can't wait to read it! Before I stumbled into coyotes, all my research was on Exodusters in Kansas. I met a few descendents of Exodusters who were thrilled about my work because their history has been buried.
Everyone knows about the Europeans who settled the Great Plains. Almost no one knows about the former enslaved people however. I'm happy to see more books about these people!
I've been out of the writing game since 2019, but I'm back! I am starting the New Years' resolution to write more a few days early with a piece about #coyotes. It's far from perfect, but here it is.
Every evening coyotes bark, yap, and sing across the United States. City noise may drown them out, but they are present from sea to shining sea in every city and town living among us. Historically, coyotes only lived west of the Mississippi River and called the Great Plains, deserts, and mountains o