by David L. Witt | Feb 12, 2025 | Seton Essays
Big Flying-Squirrel This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-28) by Ernest Thompson Seton. It appeared in Vol. IV, pg. 384. A Hope In my quest for understanding of the little wild souls around us, I feel I am going wisely. I...
by David L. Witt | Jan 29, 2025 | Seton Essays
Untitled drawing from Lives of Game Animals by Ernest Thompson Seton As you will no doubt know, the apologia (defense) has been an important literary form for the past 2500 years. Perhaps no writer in that time has matched Seton for vigor in standing up for what he...
by David L. Witt | Jan 7, 2025 | Lobo, Wolves & Wildlife Conservation
Wolf design by freepik.com AN AWARD Each year the National Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) gives out its Ernest Thompson Seton Award. The Award “recognizes the efforts of a state agency and team leader to raise public awareness of scientific wildlife...
by David L. Witt | Nov 29, 2024 | Curator's Notes
The Natural History of the Ten Commandments by Ernest Thompson Seton must be his most unusual book. While he had significant grounding in fundamentalist—Calvinist bible study, he had long since given up on organized Christianity. Published in 1907 (the same year as...
by David L. Witt | Nov 9, 2024 | Seton Essays
Pocket Gopher by Ernest Thompson Seton 1892 Seton was the first to publish that in some places the Pocket Gopher provides a service practiced elsewhere by earthworms: aeration of the soil. (He devoted many pages of Life-Histories of Northern Animals to...
