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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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Maggie Grinnell: A Story on a Man’s Fight for Buffalo Rights

July 9, 2015
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
You know those certain people you meet where you cannot stop listening and nodding in agreement with? The ones where their stories are so captivating and genuine that you’re left
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Stephen A. Daire: Sometimes it takes a heart attack

August 26, 2014
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
The hardest obstacles to overcome are those that aren’t immediately apparent, such as my two case of dehydration causing me vertigo and discomfort. Much like my body’s dysfunction, causing me
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Masato Tobari: Iconic Wilderness

August 26, 2014
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  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
I’m an exchange student from Tokyo, Japan. Although my country is mountainous and 68% of the land is forest, Japan doesn’t have the designated wilderness areas. I took this WRFI
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Kaitlyn Cafferty: A wilderness of our own

August 26, 2014
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
In the days of social media and iPhones, when people know more about Googling the definition of wilderness than how to discover it for themselves, I found myself and six
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Sara Welge: Finding the Silver Lining

August 26, 2014
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
As we reached 9800 feet in the Snowcrest Mountains our group of seven was exhausted from a long day of backpacking. With stomachs growling, our feet were blistered and exhaustion
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Tiffany Chou: After the Fire

September 10, 2013
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
As we hiked through the charred remains of what was once a lush forest full of Englemann spruce, subalpine firs, and lodgepole pines, I felt the awe of Simba and
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Carly Snider: Think Outside the Classroom

September 4, 2013
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Sitting on top of a mountain examining the current effects of climate change on Montana’s landscapes isn’t a description of your typical environmental studies class. This experiential learning approach that
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Hanna Twiss – Brooks: The Lodgepoles of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

September 3, 2013
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
The Native Americans, along with other Aboriginal tribes around the globe, rely on their knowledge of and relationship with their local environment for subsistence, both physical and spiritual, called Traditional
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Ashton Lamb: Big Bison cause Big Talks

July 17, 2013
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Hello everyone, My name is Ashton Lamb and I am a student at Colorado State University (CSU) studying Parks and Protected Area Management. Along with ten other students from around
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Katie Collier: All in a Day’s Work

July 11, 2013
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
On our eighth day, the group met with Kyle Cutting at Red Rock Lake National Wildlife Refuge to discuss efforts being made to help restore a population of Arctic Grayling.
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WRFI courses may sound like they’re too good to be true—in my experience, the Colorado Plateau course was! The instructors were amazing, the area is so beautiful, and the classrooms are unbelievable! Such a bond is made with your course mates that it makes two months in the desert fly by. I highly recommend the Colorado Plateau course—or any WRFI course—if you can!

Katie Revels, University of Wisconsin-River Falls
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