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
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,
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
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
Our human civilization often seems far and disconnected from the natural world. Many of us now live in cities and get our food from the grocery store, not the land
On a gusty day in Half Moon Basin, a meadow surrounded by towering mountains where we were camping, I participated in my favorite school assignment of all time. Every student