by David L. Witt | May 23, 2025 | Seton Essays
The Wonder Buck 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. Around the time when Seton wrote this, the elk population of New Mexico was down to only a few individuals....
by David L. Witt | May 8, 2025 | Seton Essays
Irish Beach, California, September 2024 by dlw This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) by Ernest Thompson Seton. Foreword of Comfort/Vol III pg. vii. “I sat on a low cliff above the booming surf to-day. The...
by David L. Witt | Apr 30, 2025 | Seton Essays
Fine Fat Prairie Dogs 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. The Black-footed Ferret has verged between on the edge of extinction to thought extinct to back on the...
by David L. Witt | Apr 22, 2025 | Seton Essays
Range of the Marten and Its Ken (detail) by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) written by Ernest Thompson Seton. He pioneered the use of range maps in nature publications of which the one...
by David L. Witt | Apr 17, 2025 | Seton Essays
Twixt Cat & Fox by Ernest Thompson Seton This is one in an ongoing series of nature essays from Lives of Game Animals (1925-1928) written by Ernest Thompson Seton. At the end he describes the study of natural history “as a mosaic that is the dream of every wise...
by David L. Witt | Apr 11, 2025 | Seton Essays
Coyote Head, life study 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. For an update about this subject check out Project Coyote and Dan Flores. The Coyote How to Destroy...
