Born in Pennsylvania, raised in Iowa, and educated mostly in Illinois, Morton J. Elrod decided at age 33 to venture west in 1897 to take a teaching position at Missoula’s fledgling university.

The station was started in 1899 by Morton Elrod to monitor the watershed, invasive species and the environment of beautiful Flathead Lake. “125 years.

Elrod was UM’s first biology professor, and also a member of the American Bison Society. He spent 10 years traveling around the Flathead Indian Reservation between 1897 and 1907, and produced a ...

Entranced by the wonder of Montana’s natural ecosystems, founder Morton Elrod initially set up the biological station in Bigfork. Elrod was the first professor of biology at the University of Montana, ...

I was searching my biographical records on Professor Morton Elrod, the University of Montana's first faculty member who specialized in biology. Elrod was commissioned by the Boston Bison Society ...

KALISPELL — It isn't so simple, finding where T.J. Hileman or Morton Elrod stood decades ago, aiming their camera lenses on glaci ers. But for the last four sum mers, Karen Holzer and Lisa ...

A year after Glacier National Park was established in 1910, University of Montana Professor Morton Elrod lugged a large camera to a scenic point and snapped a photo of Jackson Glacier. An artist ...

Morton John Elrod was the first professor of biology at the University of Montana, founded the Flathead Lake Biological Station in 1899, and was Glacier National Park’s first naturalist.