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Disturbance: Ecology and Lifestyle By Anna Fatta

September 5, 2021
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat
Last September, we were all beginning our first full semesters of online school. Lab reports, essays, and even exams would be completed from our couches, kitchen tables, and bedrooms. We would tread the same path from bedroom to bathroom to kitchen and back again. If the weather was nice, perhaps we would venture to our
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Night does not fall. By Jackson Sidford

July 31, 2021
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
My name is Jackson, I’m a current student of the Conservation Across Boundaries course, and I’m here to share some of the things I’ve learned, along with a few observations I’ve made. The very first concept we studied on this course also happened to be one I was unfamiliar with. It’s the idea of Traditional
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Seeing Beyond Boundaries By Owen Helland

July 30, 2021
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  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Not many people get to stand on the seafloor. At least, not consciously. When I strode into Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness on July 12, 2021, I wasn’t immediately concerned with the long history of the region with my exhilarated attention thoroughly divided between the cliffs and peaks surrounding the Gibson Reservoir and my dusty boots,
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The Paradox of the Highlands By Sam Eberhard

July 29, 2021
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
I was up early. It was a cold morning at our camp in a high elevation meadow in the Snowcrest Mountains of Southwestern Montana. I greeted our ever-cheerful instructor Steve and got straight to boiling water for everyone’s breakfast. It was my first time as Leader of the Day, and as I attempted to not
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On the Tameness—or Lack Thereof—of Grizzlies By Holly Eberhard

July 28, 2021
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
On our first afternoon backpacking in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley, we saw a grizzly bear. We had just set up camp for the evening in a spruce grotto beside the river when people began animatedly gesturing to ascend the hill that opened up to a small meadow above camp. Upon cresting the hill, it took me
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Bear Meadow By Julia Schles

July 27, 2021
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  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
We were told that 30 yards is far too close to get to a grizzly. In Yellowstone, you need to be at least six school buses away from them. Our first day there, we got within one. On the second of July, we hiked about five miles from the Lamar Valley to our first campsite.
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Learning to Listen to Native Stories By Silas Andrews

July 12, 2021
  • Cycle the Rockies,
  • Fresh from the Field
My heart heavy, my mind intrigued, and my body attentive, I listened to Hal Herring tell a tale of America’s public lands. Details left and right—the Homestead Act, droughts, Dust Bowl, Great Depression, Clean Water Act—he built a narrative of the rise of America’s public lands but never left out the dark truth of America’s
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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 and protests he has partaken in over his lifetime he was not trying to conform to a group identity, he was trying to live a
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“Hey Bear” by Grace Budd

August 27, 2019
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
“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 for guidance. Their wisdom is apparent in the way that they live. They teach us by example.” -Robin Wall Kimmer “Hey bear!” A deceiving call,
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River of Eagles by Rainey Strippelhoff

August 16, 2019
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  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
I can’t get to my binoculars quickly enough. The dark shape soars above us in effortless circles. I can see the flash of white tail feathers in the sun. I fumble with the protective covers of my binoculars and finally squint through the eyepieces as my kayak twists sideways in the water. The bald eagle
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I loved the Environmental Ethics course and I’m walking away more hopeful and motivated than I have ever been with any course.

Sidney Hauck, University of Minnesota-Duluth
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