by David L. Witt | Sep 10, 2025 | Seton Essays
The Gray Wolf by Ernest Thompson Seton, 1892 for Forest and Stream magazine This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Seton’s analysis of Gray Wolf behavior was groundbreaking at the time. Since...
by David L. Witt | Aug 28, 2025 | Seton Essays
Range Of The American Gray—Wolf (detail) by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. See Part I, The Gray Wolf, and the beginning of a series on Lobo, the wolf made famous...
by David L. Witt | Feb 26, 2020 | Gallery, More Beautiful and Amazing
Marsha Skinner, Fire Drawing (series of three),Oil on archival paper/2019 “More Beautiful and Amazing” Seton Gallery exhibition 2019-2020 I’ve never lit a campfire in the wilderness, disliking as I do, the inevitable mess this leaves behind. Fire rings in developed...
by David L. Witt | Mar 15, 2019 | Curator's Notes
Intertwined: The Mexican Wolf, the People and the Land Transformation of a Wolf Killer into a Wolf Protector: Wolves, Conservation and Ernest Thompson Seton by David L. Witt Saturday, March 23, 1 p.m. In January 1894 a little-known Canadian bounty hunter came to the...
by David L. Witt | Sep 14, 2018 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
Wolf Sketch by Ernest Thompson Seton Untangling the Past When Seton arrived in New Mexico in 1893, decades of hunting had decimated the previously abundant wildlife. Wolves had hunted animals from bison to pronghorn antelope. But by then predators preyed upon cattle,...
