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Colorado Plateau: Desert Canyons & Cultures
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Southwest Climate Studio Art: Change and Resilience in the American Southwest
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Cycle the Rockies; Energy & Climate Change in MT
(Summer Course)
Environmental Ethics; Climate Change & Visions of a Sustainable Future
(Summer Course)
Montana Afoot and Afloat: Human/Land Relations
(Fall Semester)
Restoration Ecology in Greater Yellowstone
(Summer Course)
Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
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Natasha Steinmann: Walk a Day in WRFI Boots

August 26, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
6:25am: LOD (Leader of the Day) Faren groggily hears her small watch alarm go off. Time to get up! Her faithful tentmate Mike ensures she dutifully gets out of the
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Faren Worthington: Learning from People and Places

August 26, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
A WRFI summer semester entails full days of travel and academics divided between front country and backcountry in our investigation of ecology, conservation, and management in the Y2Y. By the
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Michaela Brumbaugh: A Silent Plead Amongst Centurions

August 26, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
As a believer of global climate change, there’s something quite sensational about getting to see what I spend my life learning about, studying, and vocalizing first hand. Hiking to the
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Davis Logan: Canadian Switchbacks

August 26, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Canadian switchbacks? From spending time hiking through the Lewis and Clark Wilderness, Yellowstone, Lee Metcalf and other state areas my sense of trail design was pretty firm. Setting foot on
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Kaitlin Kenney: What Today Leaves and Tomorrow Brings.

August 26, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
After five backpack trips, roughly 28 days total spend in the woods, and 57 nights of camping, here are at our last backcountry campsite of the summer. As Jerry Garcia
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Jesse Filingo: Glacier Importance

August 26, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Having spent most of my life growing up on the East Coast, particularly in the southeast portion of Tennessee, I haven’t had that much exposure to snow, let alone glaciers.
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Jesse Filingo: The Wild in Me

August 6, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
The water was gin clear as it slithered over the painted rocks which ranged in color from blue to orange to red.  Water so cold and crisp that it could
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Faren Worthington

August 6, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Human beings are really big.  There isn’t a place on the planet we don’t touch and we’ve come up with technologies to circumnavigate just about any challenge Nature throws at
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Kaitlin Kenney: Wilderness Area and the Seven Dwarves (plus Brian)

August 6, 2012
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  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
High-ho, high-ho, it’s off to hike we go…to ScapegoatPeak that is.  And high-ho it sure is!  As we embarked on the day’s adventure, I felt like I was living a
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Michaela Brumbaugh: Nature – What’s below the surface when you quit skimming

August 6, 2012
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
As a Tucsonan, snow is rare for me to see.  As an Arizonan, camping during a snow storm is even rarer.  In Upper Teepee Basin of Montana not only did
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This was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I cannot express how amazing the people I met, experiences I had and the lifelong friends I made were. I was unsure of my decision to ‘Cycle the Rockies’ at first, but now I am truly glad I took a chance.

Cory Couture, St. Lawrence University
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