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Colorado Plateau: Desert Canyons & Cultures
(Spring Semester)
Southwest Climate Studio Art: Change and Resilience in the American Southwest
(Spring Course)
Cycle the Rockies; Energy & Climate Change in MT
(Summer Course)
Environmental Ethics; Climate Change & Visions of a Sustainable Future
(Summer Course)
Montana Afoot and Afloat: Human/Land Relations
(Fall Semester)
Restoration Ecology in Greater Yellowstone
(Summer Course)
Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
(Summer Course)
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Value and Utility by Sydney Pastore

September 27, 2022
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  • Montana Afoot & Afloat
Sink into the moss on the riverbank. Green with many shades that compliment each other – floating on the surface, growing on the bank, smaller shrubs towering above them, but
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Landscapes and Lawnscapes by Caden Gallagher

July 25, 2021
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  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
Mountains and meadows, rivers and flowers,  Thinking of landscapes I stare at for hours,  Great big white clouds and thunder that rings,  These are a few of my favorite things!
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WRFI: A Summer of Relearning How to Love Learning by Mik Kaiser

October 1, 2018
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  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
It was early May and it was one of the first warm days of a late Madison spring. I was sitting in my third class of the day, in a
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Jesse Stenske: Disturbance is Life

September 11, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat
At first glance, these toothpick forests of the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana want to invade me with fear and loneliness and hang me out to dry in the sun under
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Diane Klement: Professor Garter Snake and Bitterroot

September 8, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Montana Afoot & Afloat
Silence. Lichen spreads between my fingertips like spider webs as the callousness of rock scratches against my hands. It is the first day of WRFI’s Montana Afoot and Afloat course,
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Madie Horton: Keep Jumbo Wild

August 13, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
As I walked through ponderosa pine covered forests, on top of glacial moraines, through snow, and along boulders the size of cars, I began to understand why Jumbo is a
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Emily Quigg: Cooking in a Corridor

July 17, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
After a cold and wet six-mile hike, there was nothing I wanted to do more than crawl into my sleeping bag and go to sleep. However, everyone still needed to
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Shannon Lynch: My Happy Place

July 16, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
“Even when I’m a thousand miles away from my roots, I’m home.” -Zac Brown Band Growing up in a small town in Southern New Jersey with not many things to
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Steve Schmidt: One Father’s Epiphany

July 15, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
To the fathers of eight exceptional young women: You sent your girls off into the backcountry of Montana and Canada. I would have been nervous being a father of three
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Alyssa Swartz: Wilderness Defined Differently

July 11, 2018
  • Fresh from the Field,
  • Wild Rockies: Conservation Across Boundaries
No one wants to carry around an encyclopedia in their 75 liter pack through the Scapegoat Wilderness. Even if I did want to carry around my phone, there is no
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People ask me how my course went, but how do you talk about something that changed your life in such a huge way? The only way to process the experience is to take the information you learned and the experiences you had and start to shape your life in accordance.

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