Shane Randle: Environmentalism & Religion
Is environmentalism a form of religion? Environmentalists all share a view on what is important to us in the world: the animals, the land, and the natural processes that surround
Bonita Pernot: Power and Place in the Big Snowy Mountains
Our group dispersed along the ridge of Great House Peak—the highest point in Montana’s Big Snowy Mountains, standing 8,681’ high—to find a spot to take in the expansive view. It
Claire Anderson: Mad World
“Effective protest is grounded in anger, and we are not consciously angry. Anger nourishes hope and fuels rebellion, it presumes a judgement, presumes how things ought to be and aren’t,
Matt Gasper: Knowing Your Place
Throughout the second section of the Montana Afoot and Afloat course, I have been able to apply knowledge from the first section to understand this landscape more precisely. Being in
Megan Harrison: A Journey through the Prairie
The Great Plains for the last 10,000 years has remained an arid grassland receiving less than 24 inches of rain annually. This makes one wonder how can one of America’s
Shane Randle: Ways of Knowing
Leaves made of a single whorl of diverging leaf-parts, with barely visible netted veins. Thin, wispy white hairs coat a leaf-stalk which fades in color from the bright green of
Ben Warzon: The Uplift of Education
We often spend our days of academia sedentary, stimulating only our brains, and that’s on the best days. For many of us on this course, sitting in one place being
Bonita Pernot: Nature’s Gift; Enjoying the Present
Practicing mindfulness can be difficult—and sometimes nearly impossible—in day- to-day life. Forty hour work weeks, stacks of schoolwork and social media are just a few of the distractions that keep
Linden Maurer: Regeneration in the Rockies
As I walked through the blackened and bare burn area of the Scapegoat Wilderness, I contemplated how my view of fire ecology and wildfire had completely changed. Before my Montana
Rosie Smith: A Sense of Place
Perched on a cliff, overlooking the Missouri River and surrounding plains, I was confronted by the expansiveness of this place. The vast open space was overwhelming and made me