Stumbling upon wolf scat is not the way many people would want to start a hike. For our twelve-person group, it was like Christmas. All of us gathered around the

I have often wondered how national parks and wilderness areas gain their names. During my Conservation Across Boundaries course, I spent over a week exploring the beautiful landscapes located in

Photography can provide a whole new lens with which to view the world. Looking at the Earth through a camera can help people notice the minute complexities in the lighting

The trailer rattled along the unpaved roads leading into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. It was the only thing breaking my trance as stands of Quaking aspen waved at the window

“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

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

You’ve just woken up and you begin climbing out of your warm sleeping bag. You unzip your tent to be greeted by wet dewy grass and a valley that stretches

Imagine you wake up in the early morning. The moon is still out with a bit of morning dew covering everything around you and the sun slowly starts to creep

Excited anticipation built as I crept to the top of the final grassy hill before Deep Creek Canyon Pass. Up, over, and suddenly on the descent, a gust of wind

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