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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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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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Randy Ramsley: Learning to listen to the land by Renne Baldwin

March 29, 2021
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • The WRFI Community
I first meet Randy Ramsley on a clear morning in Utah, the kind where I want to stand half in sun and half in shade. My classmates and I have
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Canyon Culture by Lucy Bock

November 27, 2019
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
As the first gentle hue of daylight blends with the few stars left over from a chilly night, our fearless leader of the day opens their eyes. They stumble blindly
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Michael Helton: What is Wilderness?

October 14, 2019
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
Our first day of section two on the Colorado Plateau with the Wild Rockies Field Institute (WRFI), we hike five miles into Dark Canyon Wilderness, formerly part of the recently
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Colorado Plateau: Lessons Learned by Nick Palandech

June 20, 2019
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
I recall learning about Wild Rockies Field Institute in my first class in college ever, I couldn’t resist testing myself and my limits; I needed something outside of a classroom.
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Malia Bertelsen: Public lands in Which Public Hands?

June 11, 2019
  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
In the distance are two small buttes that protrude from the gently curved ground covered in sagebrush and juniper. These are the Bears Ears. Driving up several days later, we
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Anna Favour: Horseshoe Canyon as a Canvas

April 15, 2019
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
“Our place is part of what we are. Yet even a “place” has a kind of fluidity; it passes through space and time… A place will have been grasslands, then
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Lucia Possehl: The Bones of the Land are Showing

April 13, 2019
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  • Colorado Plateau,
  • Fresh from the Field
We met with Jerry Shue, a Moab-based landscape geographer before embarking on our first twelve-day trip into Horseshoe Canyon to get our first introduction to the natural and social processes
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