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Colorado Plateau: Desert Canyons & Cultures
15 Credit Spring Semester
Southwest Climate Studio Art: Change and Resilience in the American Southwest
6 Credit Summer Course
Restoration Ecology in Greater Yellowstone
3 Credit Summer Course
Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
12 Credit Summer Semester
Cycle the Rockies: Energy and Climate Change in Montana
6 Credit Summer Course
Environmental Ethics: Climate Change and Visions of a Sustainable Future
3 Credit Summer Course
Montana Afoot and Afloat: Human/Land Relations
15 Credit Fall Semester
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Kit Collins: Revelations on the Ridge

July 29, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
By now, I’d say that our group has pretty much reached pro-status when it comes to ridge walking. It started as a kind of frightening experience, but with every ridge
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A Montanan Landscape: Sunsets, Cattle Ranches, and Power Lines by Parker Eversoll

July 19, 2018
  • Cycle the Rockies
After riding nearly 500 miles thus far on my touring bicycle from Billings to Dupuyer, Montana, I have seen countless ranches, sherbet sunsets, mountain ranges, and other features that make
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Earl Clark: Limited Priority

July 18, 2018
  • Cycle the Rockies
If we’re to take something away from our dominant fossil fuel-based energy system, it’s that too much of a good thing is a bad thing. With their subsidization, abundance, and
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Livi Hackbarth: Those Dang Hippies and Their “Environmentalism”

July 18, 2018
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  • Cycle the Rockies
I heave myself up what seems like our millionth hill as sweat droplets fall down my face and 20 mph crosswinds try to shove me off the shoulder of the
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Emily Quigg: Cooking in a Corridor

July 17, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
After a cold and wet six-mile hike, there was nothing I wanted to do more than crawl into my sleeping bag and go to sleep. However, everyone still needed to
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Shannon Lynch: My Happy Place

July 16, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
“Even when I’m a thousand miles away from my roots, I’m home.” -Zac Brown Band Growing up in a small town in Southern New Jersey with not many things to
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Livi Hackbarth: Energizing by Complicating

July 16, 2018
  • Cycle the Rockies
Hopping on a bike weighing 100 lbs, awaiting what would be a 700 mile trek across the Montana landscape with 13 other strangers is nothing short of an overwhelming experience.
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Steve Schmidt: One Father’s Epiphany

July 15, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
To the fathers of eight exceptional young women: You sent your girls off into the backcountry of Montana and Canada. I would have been nervous being a father of three
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Chloe Williamson: Through the Eyes of Each Other

July 15, 2018
  • Cycle the Rockies
Today marks our 100 mile mark on our 700 mile journey through Montana. After our 42 mile ride, we coasted down the Main Street hill into Roundup, passing by lines
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Earl Clark: Solutions are not Simple

July 14, 2018
  • Cycle the Rockies,
  • Fresh from the Field
After a thoroughly educational talk with Mike Scott, a farmer from Billings, about the effects of an oil spill on his land and the surrounding community, we went inside his
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Sierra Deimling, University of Montana
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