The Art of Being Alone by Valerie Kearley
In this group, we spend just about every minute we’re awake together, and silence is impossible to achieve. When a solo hike out of the mountains was proposed on our
Interpretations of Home by Nora Blair
I very much consider myself a high desert mountain-loving kid. I’ve grown up rock climbing and scrambling all that Colorado’s Front Range has to offer. I feel most at home
To Be Known by Maxwell Ryan
It’s a curious thing, the river. The surrounding area is always a riparian ecosystem, and beyond that the land can vary from deserts to mountains all the way to forest
Living to Learn and Learning to Live by Andrew Beckington
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
Awesome Alumni: Elisabeth Davidson’s Earth Week Art Show
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
The Line Between Two Worlds by Zoe Transtrum
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
Plant Teachings by Elisabeth Davidson
While backpacking through the Scapegoat Wilderness, I became fully immersed in the environment around me. I was able to slow down and think critically about the intricate systems that allow
Value and Utility by Sydney Pastore
Sink into the moss on the riverbank. Green with many shades that compliment each other – floating on the surface, growing on the bank, smaller shrubs towering above them, but
Purple by Sally Moris
The wildflowers are fading as fall is fast approaching on the slopes of the Northern Rockies, and I start to notice purple. Tearing my eyes away from the corpses of
Time as a Meandering River and an Agent of Change By Halley Linscheid
“My plants have grown without me knowing My hair is longer now without me seeing The days are long and go by quickly Years pass and I don’t feel older