Orma Smith Museum of Natural History (CIDA-OJSM)

The only natural history museum in the region encompassing southwestern Idaho, southeastern Oregon and northern Nevada, the Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History is the premier resource for environmental and natural history education in the region. The Museum is listed in the "30 Most Amazing Higher Education Natural History Museums" list compiled by Best College Reviews. The Museum’s extensive collections and programs support the education of The College of Idaho students and the general public, as well as numerous research activities.

Contact: William Clark (clarkfam1@mindspring.com)

Home Page: https://www.collegeofidaho.edu/about/campus-facilities/natural-history-museum

Collection Type: Preserved Specimens

Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal

Global Unique Identifier: 539bc75f-9d43-4460-848d-93375a7eb94a

DwC-Archive Publishing: https://scan-bugs.org:443/portal/collections/datasets/datapublisher.php

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Digital Metadata: EML File

Usage Rights: CC BY-NC 4.0 (Attribution-Non-Commercial International)

Rights Holder: Orma J. Smith Museum of Natural History

• 10,336 occurrence
• 705 (7%) georeferenced
• 6,320 (61%) identified to species
• 22 families
• 78 genera
• 161 species
• 164 total taxa (including subsp. and var.)