Brews explores the Wool King, Yellowstone grizzly lecture at MOR

Even with the sunny season in the rearview, there’s no slowing down at Museum of the Rockies with a busy fall event calendar. Here’s a look at some upcoming happenings at your neighborhood museum.
MOR is pleased to host the Extreme History Project Lecture Series, encouraging public understanding of the way our history has shaped our present. Speakers take a fresh look at interesting historical topics. Superfunded: Recreating Nature in a Postindustrial West with Jennifer Dunn is next up on Thursday, November 15th at 6pm. The lecture will be held in Hager Auditorium and is open to the public.
The EPA Superfund program was established in 1980 and over 1,700 locations have been placed on the National Priorities List (NPL). Superfund sites cover a vast array of environmental damages that contaminate the land and impact the health of citizens across the nation. Superfund’s goal is to clean up some of the nation’s most contaminated waste sites. Former mining communities in the Intermountain West were built on a premise of wealth and power fortified by resource extraction. Mining and smelting generated incredible wealth as well as incredible waste. The Superfund solution to this waste reveal how governments, communities, and individual perceive and respond to the material consequences of our capitalist and industrial decisions.
Museum of the Rockies’ popular series Brews & the Big Sky: Montana Made, Montana Brewed continues with Charlie Bair of Martinsdale, the Wool King featuring Bayern Brewing on Tuesday, November 27th from 5:30–7:30pm. There is a $12 admission including beer tasting, gallery talks, exhibits, and light appetizers for those 21 and older.
Charles M. Bair arrived in Billings as a conductor on the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1883. By the early 1900s, he was the largest wool producer in the U.S., a multi-millionaire and a friend of western artists like Charlie Russell and Joseph Henry Sharp. Learn more about how his hard work, determination, and personality made him a Montana legend.
After a break for the holidays, additional Brews evenings this season will include Big Teams in the Big Sky with Great Northern Brewing Company on Feb. 26th; Silver City to the Copper Kingdom with Muddy Creek Brewery on March 26th; and Crow Fair with featured brewer TBA closing out the series on April 30th.
The next edition of this season’s Science Inquiry Lecture Series, Yellowstone Grizzly Bears – 45 Years of Scientific Discovery with Dr. Frank van Manen, will take place Wednesday, November 28th in Hager Auditorium beginning at 7pm. This presentation is open to the public.
What factors have led to the recovery of one of North America’s most iconic wildlife populations and what is needed to ensure their survival in the future? Dr. Frank van Manen, leader of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team at the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, will share unique ecological insights from the team’s research and the important role of technological advances in monitoring the grizzly bear population.
At each month’s Science Inquiry Lecture, explore cutting edge science topics, their latest developments, and their relevance to society through speaker presentations followed by a Q&A session.
Mark your calendars for the next edition of the Gallatin History Museum Lecture Series, Gallatin Agricultural Heritage: More Than Livestock & Crops with Cindy Shearer, will take place Wednesday, December 5th in Hager Auditorium beginning at 6pm.
Also at the Museum, photo exhibition Polar Obsession and multi-media Into the Arctic. Both are included with Museum admission and will be on display through January.
For more information about these events and other Museum exhibits, visit www.museumoftherockies.org or call (406) 994-5257.