We were sitting at our campsite, cradled between the beehive domes of the Navajo sandstone, eating warm bowls of tortilla soup. As the sun slowly sank behind the smooth rocks,

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

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

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

O Alpine Lakes, O Azure Witches, wardens of the Mountain’s bounty   a window to a World below Water one of green-gray monotone and Logs lost to Algae’s Fog, Puddles

Our world has undergone a drastic change over the last few decades. As social creatures, humans have become extremely isolated due to the rise of technology. With the loss of

The Rocky Mountain Front is a landscape of striking contrasts. To the east, prairie grasses and rolling hills embody wild possibility. To the west, Douglas firs and aspens beckon adventurers

The first reading that me and my group did for Conservation Across Boundaries was “Natural History and the Spiral of Offering” by Thomas Lowe Fleischner. I thought this piece was

During our second section of Conservation Across Boundaries, we left backpacking in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and exchanged our backcountry lifestyle for guest speakers, Traditional Knowledge, and visits to Glacier

07:00 The WRFI student begins their day groggy from a mediocre night’s sleep that had one pee break and several instances of tossing and turning. The WRFI student is already