A piece of the ArkLaTex is helping tell a bigger story at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. An Eastern leaf-footed bug captured in Hope, Arkansas in 1976 is part of the museum’s ‘From These Lands: Sharing Our Natural and Cultural Heritage’ project.
Representing the Region
Representing Louisiana in the exhibition are Brown pelican eggs, one of 11 objects from the state featured in the From These Lands exhibition. The eggs show how populations rebounded after DDT was banned in 1972.
According to Stewart Edie, co-curator of the exhibition, ‘good science can lead to informed conservation decisions, and that those decisions in turn bring species back from the brink of extinction.’ The ‘From These Lands: Sharing Our Natural and Cultural Heritage’ is open through 2029.
Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.
