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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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Perspectives on the Colorado Plateau: From Canyons to Civilization by Josephine Caringi

May 14, 2024
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  • Colorado Plateau
After our time in the Dirty Devil, we abandoned the canyon walls we had called home for the past twelve days, transitioning into a new section involving a concept which
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Finding Solitude and Self-Discovery: A Journey through the Canyons of the Dirty Devil by Kate Antone

May 2, 2024
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  • Colorado Plateau
You never know when an experience or adventure will shape you or change the mindset you have held for so long, until you’re in the midst of it. For the
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Echoes of Industry: Navigating the Quiet and the Noise in Green River by Elijah Manzer

April 25, 2024
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  • Colorado Plateau
As I sat on the dock of Green River State Park I was surrounded by a cacophony of bird calls. I pulled out my phone and opened Merlin Bird ID
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End of the trip: Beginning to bloom by Mora Kozleski

June 14, 2023
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
  Once again, we arrive at the mouth of Horseshoe Canyon. We were here two months ago at the beginning of our journey through the Colorado Plateau. But instead of
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To Know A Canyon by Anika Cramblet

May 3, 2023
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
Can you know a canyon by their rim? Or must you be drawn in, sucked downstream by their river, immersed within the walls, another being among everyone else? The top
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A Love Letter to Horseshoe Canyon by Marliese Baer

April 18, 2023
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
Is love at first sight possible with places? Or does the love come with time and experience? The first day of being within your walls I asked myself–is this an
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Navigating Canyons and Career Paths by Sierra Deimling

November 14, 2022
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  • Colorado Plateau
The 10-mile hike out of Horseshoe Canyon lent ample time for reflection. Did I really just move my body over 50 miles through a crack in the earth with my
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The Future of Activism is Intentional by Emet Koffman

June 3, 2021
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
In the words of the great Bucky Preston (Hopi elder and activist), “I guess I’m an environmentalist.”  What was meant by this seemingly simple statement was that through the actions
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Echoes of Laughter by Rachel McKay

May 21, 2021
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
“Screedle on!” Someone shouts as we descend steep Navajo Sandstone slickrock. This is our third expedition as a group and we are each carrying twelve days worth of tightly packed
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The Facade by Lauren Lombardi

May 19, 2021
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
It was full speed running. Sand flying, daypacks forgotten, every one of us dying of curiosity for what lay beyond the bend of the sandstone walls. We had reached a
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