Throughout my life, I have experienced quite a lot of — and subsequently accrued — a plethora of trauma. Some of these traumas included: watching a man die at 13,

By the end of this six-week trip, I have changed quite a bit. At the beginning, I was less fit, unsure of how to backpack, nervous about the bathroom situation,

Thimbleberry, lodgepole, lupine, wild roses, oregon grapes, wild strawberries, beargrass, arrowleaf balsamroot; these are the flowers and shrubs that I recognized as we made our way up rocky slopes into

Imagine a continent full of bison… and you have caught a glimpse into North America over 300 years ago, when there were approximately 50 million of them. From the Florida

Cold water touches my feet, wrapped up securely in my Chacos as I travel through the Tobacco Root Mountain Range with the Wild Rockies Field Institute’s (WRFI) semester course, “Conservation

Less than two weeks ago, my hiking boots were mostly clean and I fell asleep listening to the sounds of the ocean. I was at home in Southern California, where

Arriving in Montana for the first time from my hometown, north of Toronto Canada, I wasn’t sure what to expect. To be totally transparent I was equal parts excited and

My name is Jackson, I’m a current student of the Conservation Across Boundaries course, and I’m here to share some of the things I’ve learned, along with a few observations

Not many people get to stand on the seafloor. At least, not consciously. When I strode into Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness on July 12, 2021, I wasn’t immediately concerned with

I was up early. It was a cold morning at our camp in a high elevation meadow in the Snowcrest Mountains of Southwestern Montana. I greeted our ever-cheerful instructor Steve