The Rocky Mountain Front is a landscape of striking contrasts. To the east, prairie grasses and rolling hills embody wild possibility. To the west, Douglas firs and aspens beckon adventurers

The first reading that me and my group did for Conservation Across Boundaries was “Natural History and the Spiral of Offering” by Thomas Lowe Fleischner. I thought this piece was

Imagine you wake up in the early morning. The moon is still out with a bit of morning dew covering everything around you and the sun slowly starts to creep

“In the Western tradition there is a recognized hierarchy of beings, with, of course, the human being on top. But… we must look to our teachers among the other species

Beep! Beep! Beep! I wake up to the frenzied sound of alarms, and tiredly roll over in my damp sleeping bag. It is 4 a.m. and five of my Conservation

It was early May and it was one of the first warm days of a late Madison spring. I was sitting in my third class of the day, in a

 Between talks of “Keep Jumbo Wild” tattoos, endless Shrek references, and renditions of Abba’s finest, there are meaningful moments.  Moments that make me stop.  Moments that make me think, “This

By now, I’d say that our group has pretty much reached pro-status when it comes to ridge walking. It started as a kind of frightening experience, but with every ridge