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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
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Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
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Cycle the Rockies: Energy and Climate Change in Montana
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Environmental Ethics: Climate Change and Visions of a Sustainable Future
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Montana Afoot and Afloat: Human/Land Relations
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A Continuous Journey by Fiona Medieros

August 24, 2023
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
A Continuous Journey by Fiona Medieros Just like Conservation Across Boundaries as a course, gratitude truly does have roots in the experiential. The past six weeks of exploring the Crown
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What Does Your Future Hold? by Nieset LeFevre

August 23, 2023
  • Cycle the Rockies
What Does Your Future Hold? The power of curiosity in a changing and divided world By: Nieset LeFevre  It was the seventeenth of June and seven sleepy and delirious WRFI
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Having class while hiking, canoeing, and being on the Colorado Plateau has deepened my sense of curiosity, wonder, awe, and humanity. WRFI has re-awakened my love of place-based, experiential education!

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