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Colorado Plateau: Desert Canyons & Cultures
18 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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Awesome Alumni: Ryder Burliss Update

May 10, 2023
  • Alumni
Ryder Burliss, a Restoration Ecology student in 2019, recently shared with us a huge career update! When we last caught up with her, shortly after her graduation from the University
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Living to Learn and Learning to Live by Andrew Beckington

April 23, 2023
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  • Alumni,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat
During the Fall 2004 Montana Afoot & Afloat course, I saw the quote “Live to Learn, Learn to Live” over the entrance to a school in Great Falls, Montana while
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Awesome Alumni: Elisabeth Davidson’s Earth Week Art Show

April 3, 2023
  • Alumni,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat,
  • The WRFI Community
Elisabeth Davidson has always felt a connection to the natural environment around her, as well as the human communities within it. She recognizes the way the land and people have
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Navigating Canyons and Career Paths by Sierra Deimling

November 14, 2022
  • Alumni,
  • Colorado Plateau
The 10-mile hike out of Horseshoe Canyon lent ample time for reflection. Did I really just move my body over 50 miles through a crack in the earth with my
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The Line Between Two Worlds by Zoe Transtrum

October 25, 2022
  • Alumni,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat,
  • The WRFI Community
WRFI alumna (Restoration Ecology ’21) and field intern Zoe Tanstrum reflects on her recent support of the Montana Afoot and Afloat semester course, finishing in Missoula on October 25. On
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Awesome Alumni: Ryder Burliss, Restoration Ecology 2019

October 14, 2022
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  • The WRFI Community
We recently caught up with Ryder Burliss, an alum from Restoration Ecology in 2019. Ryder is an avid surfer, mountain biker, backpacker and traveler. And in May of 2022 Ryder
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Recent Posts

  • Trust Your Gut, Change Your Mind: Conversations with Community by Miles Foley
  • To Make Change You Have to Make Fun by Annika Mannix
  • “She’s a Dirty Devil”: Resilience on the River by Ariana Brennhofer
  • The Rock is my Old Friend: Intimacy with Land on the Colorado Plateau by Emma Belén Price-Daválos
  • Perseverance On the Colorado Plateau by Jonathan Robinson

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Phia Swart, Montana State University
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