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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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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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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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Desert Walls: The Colorado Plateau’s Oldest Storytellers by Bella Butler

November 12, 2019
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
The morning is cool but not cold. Spared from the wind, I easily boil a pot of water to wake my comrades with. Everyone is asleep under the vast desert
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Lessons from a Common Landscape by Anna Cockey

November 11, 2019
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat
Rocks are lively, dynamic, and bearers of history. This was certainly never a thought that crossed my mind until I abandoned old perspectives and simply sat among them. With my
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Forward and Backwards by Vana Buning

November 10, 2019
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
  Every step that I take my foot gets engulfed into inches of quicksand. You’d think that river hiking would be a breeze, and that might be if you could
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Keagan McCully: Of Time and Energy

May 18, 2018
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
I sit perched on a sandstone ledge overlooking a bend in the wash of Larry Canyon. From here I can see the white salt deposits from the stream, blanketing the
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Sarah Bartz: Layer by Layer

May 5, 2018
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
As our group sits beneath the glow of the evening sky, the smell of a warm peanut butter, soy sauce, brown sugar, veggie, and rice noodle feast wafts around us.
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  • What Does Your Future Hold? by Nieset LeFevre
  • Living What You Preach by Natalie Pycz
  • The Uphill Climb of Shifting to Renewable Energy by Ella Vander Velde

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