Last month, Vanessa Bateman presented her research on elk conservation and animal photography at the Western History Association conference in Los Angeles, California. The Bellwether Histories themed panel “Warnings Ignored: Animal Crises in the American West” included panelists Susan Nance (University of Guelph) and Jennifer Marks (University of Iowa) and was chaired by Thomas G. Andrews (University of Colorado Boulder).

Image caption: Stephen N. Leek, untitled (elk migration in Jackson Hole Valley, Wyoming), undated. S. N. Leek Papers, American Heritage Center, U of Wyoming.