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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
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Montana Afoot and Afloat: Human/Land Relations
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“She’s a Dirty Devil”: Resilience on the River by Ariana Brennhofer

June 17, 2025
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  • Colorado Plateau
The Dirty Devil, aptly named by Dunn during Major John Wesley Powell’s 1896 expedition of the Colorado River, is a 200 mile meandering stretch of chocolatey brown waters. It was
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The Rock is my Old Friend: Intimacy with Land on the Colorado Plateau by Emma Belén Price-Daválos

June 17, 2025
  • Colorado Plateau
Cradled by crumbling walls of deep red sandstone that shield the corners of a vast blue sky, a group of 10 slightly sunburnt and sore-footed backpackers follow the gentle meander
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Perseverance On the Colorado Plateau by Jonathan Robinson

June 16, 2025
  • Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, with its unforgiving terrain and dry, arid landscape, is not a place many people would think to inhabit. Despite this, many people have successfully called the Colorado
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Three Things To Know Before Your Next 14 Day Backpacking Trip in Horseshoe Canyon by Paige Ptak

June 11, 2025
  • Colorado Plateau
Scrambling down the dusty orange Navajo sandstone into the open body of Horseshoe Canyon for the first time will be intimidating, exhilarating and even a hint nerve-racking. If you have
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Weaving a Future by Abby Olson

May 21, 2025
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  • Colorado Plateau
How do we measure knowledge? Is it by a test score, a degree, or the amount of scientific names one can memorize? I would argue none of the above, because
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Gender and Survival by Miles Foley

May 20, 2025
  • Colorado Plateau
In our third section of the Colorado Plateau course, we’ve been meeting with many people who have unique understandings of and connections to this landscape. Three wonderful families in the
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Systems of Horseshoe Canyon by Chloe Brackenbury

April 28, 2025
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Here we are, three days into our backpacking journey, and Horseshoe Canyon decides to welcome us with a spring blizzard! We crawled out of the cocoons of our sleeping bags
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A Case for Cloud Watching by Cob Staines

June 10, 2024
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“A scientist who has lost a sense of wonder, or scientists who try to teach facts without feeling, will not find their work transformed into the wisdom and knowledge that
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Understanding Our Place in the Wilderness by Sam Ryan

May 24, 2024
  • Colorado Plateau
What is Wilderness? A place to hike? A government designation? A place where the only sounds are the songs of the birds and the wind shaking the trees? This is
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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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