Muchnick Article Featured in Wyoming History Journal

Barry Muchnick, assistant professor of environmental studies, had an article featured in the Autumn 2017 issue of Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal. The article, “Museum on the Hoof: Mid-Century Science and Society at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Park,” uses a case study analysis approach to explore the tensions between conservation and consumerism during the 1940s related to the development, construction and marketing of a naturalistic wildlife park in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Muchnick argues that debates over the technology, materials and design of the wildlife park reveal wider patterns of concern about the role of technology in human-nature interactions and the evolving place of wildlife and wilderness in public life and politics. Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal is published by the Wyoming State Historical Society in association with the Wyoming Department of State Parks and Cultural Resources, the American Heritage Center, and the Department of History at the University of Wyoming.