Buffalo Bill Memorial Association

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP:The Center prides itself on the production of original scholarship by staff and through partners. The Center's staff works independently and with outside scholars to connect audiences with groundbreaking knowledge about the American West. Research outputs include online and in print popular and scholarly publications covering a range of topics. The popular publication "Points West" magazine is produced four times a year and features articles on topics about the American West of past and present and newsworthy items pertaining to the Center.Current Center research focuses include the intersection of popular culture and Western art; historical and contemporary firearms and publication of twice yearly ARMAX journal; rock art of the Big Horn Basin; William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody's advertising posters; Pinyon Jay ecology in Northern Wyoming; bat surveys of the Absaroka Mountains; Park County pollinators census; Phenology of the Paul Stock Trail; and wolf scat prey identification.The Center fosters external research through internship and fellowship programs and collaborative projects with research organizations and universities. The Center has an ongoing partnership with UC Berkeley to examine animal migrations in the Greater Yellowstone region, the Absaroka Fence Initiative, Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Bureau of Land Management, UC Davis, US Fish and Wildlife Service, and Northwest College.