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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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Maggie Grinnell: Environmentalist Eh? What’s That? : Alberta’s (lack of) Environmental Priorities

September 7, 2015
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
When we first entered Canada, Alberta greeted us with rugged mountains, open sky and clear abundant water. As we drove, all we could see were endless fields of wind turbines
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Madi Lupinek: Jumbo Glacier Resort: A Jumbo Failure?

September 4, 2015
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Imagine an epic wilderness: rugged mountains adorned with glaciers and snow, glacial waterfalls trickling down slope into fields of slate and shale forming crystal blue ponds before dropping down to
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Lindsey Freitag: Growing with Wildness

August 20, 2015
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
I step onto the grass and feel the moist soil between my bare toes. My pace picks up into a sprint, freed from the confines of the indoors. I stop
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Elly Voigt: Experiencing the Colorado Plateau

August 7, 2015
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
  We sat with the stream, and talked about what we saw. In the expansive desert of the Colorado Plateau, the pockets of water are the islands. What organisms live
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Lindsay Ashton: Graveyards in Montana’s High Country–the death of whitebark pine

August 5, 2015
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
I stand on a ridge of the Snowcrest Mountains in Southwestern Montana. From here I can see nearly a dozen other mountain ranges, including the snowy peaks of the Tetons
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Joe Levi: Connecting with the Land

August 3, 2015
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
I recall as a child anxiously awaiting each new issue of National Geographic as it was sent to my school library. I would find myself living vicariously through the explorers,
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Amber Ring: The Pit of Despair…or of Hope?

July 13, 2015
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
After finishing a five-day backpacking trip in Montana’s Snowcrest Mountains, the Wild Rockies Field Institute students (myself included) and instructors ventured out of the wilderness and coolness of the mountains
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Maggie Grinnell: A Story on a Man’s Fight for Buffalo Rights

July 9, 2015
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • 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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Katie Atherly: What’s the Word?

July 5, 2015
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
We were all still covered in brown paint and dirt from the activities of the previous days when we met with Mark Sorensen in a dimly lit school room. Mark
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Kory Kirby: Simplify

June 28, 2015
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
Garbage trucks, dogs barking, lights, traffic, noise, people. Emails, phone service, Wi-Fi, TV’s, screens, connection with the world. Chaos, hecticness, stresses consuming our lives. Day by day, week by week,
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Luke Taylor, Oregon State University
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