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

Clink, clink, clink! The sound of quarters being dispensed out of the change machine snapped me out of my gaze. The WRFI crew had just reached Browning, Montana. Our group

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