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Office Artifacts: Peter Busher

CGS prof’s display runs from fur to fossils

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The beaver pelt in his office reminds Peter Busher of the college road trip that drove him to study beaver ecology.

“When I was a junior, my oldest brother knew I liked to ski,” recalls Busher, a College of General Studies professor of natural sciences and mathematics and acting chair of the Division of Natural Sciences & Mathematics. “I was in San Francisco, and he asked if I wanted to drive to Utah, which has great skiing. All I had to do for gas money was pick up some beaver pelts in Salt Lake City for him.”

Then a biology major, Busher struck up a conversation with a rancher on the beaver farm and was drawn to learn more about the mammals. Since then, he’s accumulated scores of interesting beaver facts and has become a well-known expert on the semiaquatic rodents.