tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89807937669009712042024-02-06T22:00:39.829-08:00Wilderness and Civilization BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-73146776452729281572015-12-16T12:55:00.000-08:002015-12-16T12:56:05.301-08:00Milltown State Park<!--[if !mso]>
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<span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">WELCOME TO
MONTANA’S NEWEST STATE PARK<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Milltown State Park sits at the confluence of the Bitterroot and Clark Fork
Rivers, just a short drive or bike ride from Missoula. Unique in its own right,
the park is divided by the Clark Fork River. On a cold and windy morning in
November, we met Michael Kustudia, Montana State Parks, at the overlook,
perched on the south side of the river.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Flats. This floodplain used to be covered by water, containing the remnants of
heavy metals sent downstream from the mining operations of Butte, MT. Today,
the persistent Clark Fork carves through, reclaiming a more natural meandering
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<span style="font-family: "century"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Judging by an aerial view, it’s difficult to imagine that this was
ever the site of a dam that became Montana’s first Superfund site. The Milltown
dam was built in 1908 and supplied power to the one of the largest, most active
mills in Montana. Mr. Kustudia explained how important the dam was to the town
and industries, but also how damaging it was to the community. The same year it
was built, a flood also breached the dam and consequently toxic mineral
deposits Residents of Milltown were drinking water from their wells that were
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toxic sediment was dredge and sent to holding ponds. The EPA and Montana’s
Natural Resource Damage Program has funneled in thousands of dollars in order
to improve water quality and restore natural ecological processes. Mr. Kustudia
says their efforts have returned the river to a more natural state. Black bear
footprints line the shoreline and raptors dive bomb the river for fish. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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issues, a solution may lay down river. The Milltown State Park is a testament
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Park’s muddy beginnings served as a platform of enduring hard work. His mother
grew up just north of the site, but still within the Milltown superfund site.
However, his description held no perceivable animosity or anger toward what
happened. He remained clear and objective, dead set on the goal of the project,
without carrying the weight of fury I feel many of we younger environmentalists
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restoration, is a glimmering optimism for our generation. The inundating number
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November 6<sup>th</sup>, the 40<sup>th</sup> class of Wilderness and
Civilization visited Butte, Montana. Snow had fallen the night before giving
the town of butte, along with the Berkley Pit some “make-up” to conceal scars
of the past. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Entering the tunnel to the pit viewing
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our
first stop was at the south side entrance of the Berkley Pit, and we were
greeted by Butte historian and enthusiast Richard Gibson. We went through a
tunnel in the hill that led to a viewing porch of the pit, where Dick told us
unbelievable detailed facts about the mine. Butte is referred to as “the
richest hill on earth”, because of the immense amounts of precious metals that
were harvested. After the lightbulb was invented in the late 1800s, the demand
for copper skyrocketed, causing the town to grow like crazy. The mining town of
Butte experienced every stage of development, from camp to boomtown to mature
city onto a center for historic preservation and environmental cleanup. In the
early 1900s it was one of the largest cities in the U.S. with a population of
100,000 comparable to New York and Chicago. After WWI the demand for copper
declined causing the population of the town to dwindle to a mere 30,000. The
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pit is 1x1.5 miles around and
approximately 1,800ft deep filled to around 900ft with water, closing in on the
natural water table. Combination of 10,000 miles of tunnel run-off along with
the deep strip mine waste caused the water to become toxic. The pit is heavily
monitored because if said water were too leak/spill, it could contaminate one
of Montana’s largest headwaters. The water is very acidic, and has a pH level
of 2.5, equivalent to lemon juice or cola. People including scientists are no
longer allowed on the pit “lake”, and most animals that come in contact with
the water become sick or die. There is a siren that sounds regularly to keep
animals (mostly waterfowl) from lading in the toxic water. There were a few
minor theoretical solutions to help slow down the levels of contamination, but
they were scrapped because the costs would be in the billions and no one knew
if they would actually be beneficial for prevention. The water is managed
differently as time goes on or as we heard many times “in perpetuity”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the past with the lovely architecture and art displayed in the hall. We walked
around downtown admiring the amazing classical buildings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we met up with longtime Butte geologist Joe Griffin, on the north-west side of
the pit. We were able to view some old mining equipment and retired structures.
Joe gave us some insight on his opinions as an expert on the situation, and
made many of us realize just how severe the pollution was. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were used for mineral processing. After the processing plant was closed, people
realized there was still much hazardous and contaminated waste in the area.
Millions of dollars has been spent in an effort to clean up the toxic district.
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it was an awesome trip, probably one of our most informative weekend sessions.
Dick and Joe were just full of information about the region. It’s hard to
determine the best possible answers when it comes to mining. Everyone in
America (and all over the world) needed/ relied on the materials that came from
the Butte district for numerous reasons, so it is difficult to say “no mining” when
we so heavily rely on the products. But the aftermath of the mining will be
felt long into the future for generations to come. It was a very
thought-provoking trip that made me re-realize that natural resources NEED to
be managed properly or for “the greatest outcome for the greater good”, we need
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40th anniversary event</div>
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November 5, 2015</div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>On
Thursday, October 29th, the Wilderness Institute and <a href="" name="_GoBack"></a>the
Wilderness and Civilization Program had its 40th Anniversary celebration at
Flathead Brewery, a local brewery in downtown Missoula. </div>
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The night began with
Natalie Dawson (above), director of the Wilderness and Civilization Program,
giving a brief introduction on what the program consists of, as well as the
influence it has had on members of it and the community over the years.
Additionally, she acknowledged a number of individuals who have played key
roles in the success and longevity of both the Wilderness Institute and the
Wilderness and Civilization Program. She also described a relatively new
program the Wilderness Institute has recently implemented called the Freshman
Wilderness Experience. The idea came to her when she was on top of a mountain
with her students and they were all whooping and having a great time. She began
thinking of having students on top of a mountain yelling “I’m free” and that
turned into FWE (Freshman Wilderness Experience) where groups of freshman are
taken out on a four day backpacking trip just before the beginning of the
semester. The program's goal is to get as many freshmen into the wild as
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</span>Natalie then handed the floor over to Bob Ream (above) who is one of the
original founders of the Wilderness<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Institute and Wilderness and Civilization Program. Bob spoke about some
of his experiences with students in his years in the program. He recounted a
story of being on the Fall Trek and getting to a campsite with his students.
They wanted to hike up to the peak, but he convinced them to wait until the
morning, so they could do a sunrise hike. Bob continued to speak of one of his
fondest memories while being a part of the program. He remembered waking
everyone up at three o’clock in the morning, hiking to the top of the peak and
seeing one of the most breathtaking sunrises of his life. </div>
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night was a great opportunity for both former and current members of Wilderness
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The current students
pestered the graduates with questions, curious to learn where the program took
them and what activities, both personally and professionally, they occupied
their time with. This was a great experience to illustrate the fact that many
graduated of the program go on to pursue very meaningful roles as they continue
their journey through life carrying a true love for nature. We, as current
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October 30th, the UM’s 40th Wilderness and Civilization class set off on a
journey for a firsthand experience of the phenomenal orographic effect. We all
knew we were in for a treat as our Fearless Leader and conservation ecology
professor Natalie Dawson took charge for the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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composition across the windward and leeward sides of large mountain ranges. On
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luscious green temperate rainforest comprised of species such as old growth cedars,
Douglas firs, liverworts, a variety of mushrooms, and many other species. My
lab group was stoked about the mushrooms we’d found, and shared our excitement
with Natalie. “So usually if the bottom is spongy like this, you can eat it,”
Natalie explained. Andrew replied, “Wait Natalie, you’re saying that <i>usually</i>
it would be okay for me to eat this right now but this may be like, a life or
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receives heavy rainfall and thus had similar species composition as DeVoto.
When our work here was finished we headed down the leeward side of the range,
finally escaping the rain. At Fort Fizzle we found entirely new species and
forest structures—a forest that is drier and fire-dependent. The tree
population consisted largely of Ponderosa, Aspen, Cottonwood, and Doug fir, and
few woody debris were present. This type of environment intensified as we
headed East to our last location, Blue Mountain. When we arrived, the
orographic effect became extremely clear to me. In a short amount of time we
had reached a dry open valley that received only 14 inches of rain each year; DeVoto
receives 1,083 inches. Here, the only tree species we saw was Ponderosa. The
understory was made almost entirely of cheatgrass. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> This past weekend marked our final
weekend field trip of the semester, and like Baudelaire says above, finality of
this kind has its own sort of beautiful melancholy: you know that whatever you
see or experience, however beautiful, cannot be held for long, and that at some
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to the Rocky Mountain Front offered no shortage of unexpected excitement, a
series of adventures packed with surprises, goose-bump inducing speakers, some
literal car camping, and endless Rocky Mountain panoramas, hinting at peaks
just waiting behind miles and miles of wide, grassy plains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Knowing that our weekend adventures
have come to an end, it is natural to reflect on the path that led us to this
point, to speculate on what may be coming up ahead, and to tie together all
loose ends in order to find the deeper meaning in all we are here to do. This
past weekend was laden with mental tie-ins, largely to uncover some deeper sense
of why we are all here. Not even necessarily in this program <i>here </i>or location <i>here</i> or how we are all together to discuss such substantial, heavy
and emotional issues that are so relevant and continuous. It is hard to not to
feel impotent discussing some of these topics concerning endangered species,
climate change, and oil and gas drilling on wild lands; on the flip side, it
was remarkable how uplifting a conversation with Lou Bruno of the Glacier-Two
Medicine Alliance could arouse feelings of power and positive change for our
future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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stories: the stories we tell ourselves and each other, about who we are, why
and how we live, what we want in this world; stories tie us together as humans.
Author and journalist Hal Herring talked
about moving to Montana and his path to becoming a wilderness advocate. Lou
Bruno told us about his childhood in New York, finding mystery and meaning in a
salt marsh that eventually succumbed to the bulldozers. Casey Perkins discussed
the rigors of working protective legislation through government bureaucracy. Of
course, at the base of these stories and every story, is language. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The few hours spent at the Piegan
Language Institute in Browning, Montana triggered some broad understandings
that just seemed to make sense. Naturally at the language school we talked
about language and how the Blackfoot dialect was dying both economically and
culturally. Robert Hall, the teacher and speaker at the language school
implicitly introduced an idea that was greater than one specific endangered
tongue. Language is the essence that culturally secures <i>us</i>. Without language, then, what do we have? This extends so far
beyond any one particular culture or group of people. On a large scale our
language with the natural world is endangered and it is up to us to relearn it,
to tell the stories that need to be told, to make the deeper connections
between people spread far and wide both geographically and ideologically. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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over a month now learning, studying, traveling, and experiencing things that we
hopefully won’t soon forget. At the beginning of the semester, it was mentioned
that this program might not have an instantly gratifying effect, but rather
larger, profound implications that manifest beautifully and boldly, where
momentarily everything finds a way of coming together and you discover yourself
making worldly connections, being a part of something greater than ourselves. We’re
learning to speak in new and bold ways, and hopefully one day we’ll get to tell
our stories to those that need to hear them. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-8973182418340195602015-11-02T13:33:00.001-08:002015-11-16T18:31:22.906-08:00Fall Trek 2015 Reflections <div class="MsoNormal">
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jiving. For me, balanced meals and sustenance are an exciting part of all of
this. Since we were assigned the very first evening’s meal, we decided to pack
in about 4 pounds of vegetables-each- so as to best revitalize and prepare our
lovely backcountry family. We were both very pleased to have dropped those
pounds and satisfy our peers early on! </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Known as Chance</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Index, and just to the right is The Thunderer in the Lamar Valley. Then if you
look out way over that way…”</span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: FangSong; mso-fareast-font-family: FangSong; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I was very stoked to recognize my
summer playground from the top of our layover-day adventure, Chalice Peak.
Sitting at 11,153 feet on this bluebird day, my body and mind struck by altitude
giddiness, I was reassured by our guide, Tim, that the mountains which I was
gazing upon were those that are a part of me in the sense that I had grown in
their presence just a few weeks earlier. We saw The Thunderer, the Tetons, and
Electric Peak. We spent four hours up on top of Chalice. I had never before
hiked to a summit so high. It was the perfect way to bask in the glory of our
landscape and take time to soak in the first 36 hours of our trek. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The fall trek into the Beartooth
Wilderness largely revolved around</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <span style="background: white;">water. Not only was it a place to refill our water
bottles and take in a</span> <span style="background: white;">nice view, but it
also served as a hub for the alpine wildlife and a</span> <span style="background: white;">place of serenity for all of us to soak in the
experience.</span> <span style="background: white;">This photograph features
Diaphanous Lake on Lakes Plateau in the Absaroka</span> <span style="background: white;">Beartooth Wilderness. The crystal clear waters reflected the scene above</span>
<span style="background: white;">it perfectly so it appeared as if we were seeing
two the landscape that</span> <span style="background: white;">spread out before. Water was an integral part of our
trek into the</span> <span style="background: white;">Beartooth Wilderness.
Reaching this lake in particular was a momentous</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">occasion for us as it signified the top of Lakes
Plateau, which we had</span> <span style="background: white;">taken the whole day
to climb up. The waters of the lake renewed</span> <span style="background: white;">everyone¹s energy and replaced weariness with a sense of excitement.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This lake is Lake Dreary; a lake that several of
us hiked to on our</span> <span style="background: white;">lay-over day. We were
not the only ones drawn to the water; Clark¹s</span> <span style="background: white;">Nutcrackers could be seen frantically but gracefully searching for food</span>
<span style="background: white;">over the water, while a flock of ducks paddled
around the lake as a safe</span> <span style="background: white;">haven from
predators. and Yellowstone Cutthroat prowled the shore line,</span> <span style="background: white;">occasionally rising to the surface to gulp down a fly.</span><span style="background: white;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">>This photograph gives a little sneak peak as
to why we backpack, for the</span> <span style="background: white;">serenity that
only an alpine lake can provide. We reached Jordan Lake on</span> <span style="background: white;">the fifth day and were graced with this incredible
sunset. As the sun</span> <span style="background: white;">sank over the
mountains, the sky turned fantastic shades of pink and</span> <span style="background: white;">blue. Every minute brought about a different scene as
the lighting</span> <span style="background: white;">changed and the sun slowly
disappeared. It was hard to believe that this</span> <span style="background: white;">was the beginning of our school year, and exciting to know that the</span>
<span style="background: white;">semester would be laced with even more time in
the backcountry.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;"> This
stream illustrates all the life that the bodies of water we</span> <span style="background: white;">experienced housed. We saw a trout that had braved the
swim all the way</span> <span style="background: white;">up this stream from the
lake to reside in a little alcove underneath the</span> <span style="background: white;">bank of the creek. While walking along it, we also got to see a muskrat</span>
<span style="background: white;">swimming around in the water and quickly dart
into its shelter when our</span> <span style="background: white;">shadows
surprised it. Even the smallest areas of water such as a creek or</span> <span style="background: white;">a stream are teeming with life, and these two
creatures were just a few</span> <span style="background: white;">that we got to
observe.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">This photograph was taken at the end of the trek
near Woodbine trailhead.</span> <span style="background: white;">We hiked in
silence down the trail next to the river, hearing nothing but</span> <span style="background: white;">the rushing water. The path of the river is unchanged;
the incessant</span> <span style="background: white;">current goes where it needs
to go, as did we that morning. It was time</span> <span style="background: white;">for
us to return to civilization, though we would have been happy to</span> <span style="background: white;">permanently reside in the woods. The river carried us
downstream and took</span> <span style="background: white;">us where we needed to
go at the time, but the current of the water is</span> <span style="background: white;">hard to resist, and we will be drawn back eventually.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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3: Carly Stinson, Camille Kintzele</u></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The season of fall is a time for reflection. It is the end of a
cycle, but also the beginning of a new one. For our fall trek to the Absaroka
Beartooth Wilderness we did a loop that took us up onto the Beartooth Plateau.
Since we were disconnected from our lives in the city, the simplicity of our
days allowed us time to observe the changes around us. Since this area was so
untouched, we were able to see the natural cycles that have been occurring over
and over before our time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Often summer is the season when we get out and hike, when
everything is obviously full of life. The meadows are full of colorful flowers.
Glacier lilies popping up right after the snow melts or mountain shooting-star
flowers blooming. Venturing out in the fall made identifying plants often more
difficult because they couldn’t be identified by their flowers. As colder
weather approaches, we were able to see the plants begin to decompose. This was
rewarding because it allowed us to observe and appreciate the less distinctive
features of plants. As we increase our knowledge of the plants and animals, we
increase our understanding of how the ecology of the area works. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">By experiencing some of the cycles in nature, we were able to
understand some of the cycles in our own lives. On night five of the trek, the
sun went down over the stillness of Pinchot Lake. The sun had already set on
us, but we could still watch by the water’s edge as the mountains lit up and
the clouds with color. The sunset reminded us that each day the sun will rise
and set, just like it has for millions of years. It is a reminder that
sometimes we look too far in the future and do not take time to enjoy the
moment that we are in. Being in the Wilderness allows us to slow down and focus
on the things that are really important in life. Suddenly our cellphones and
hot showers don’t seem as important as we remember them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Each time we go into the Wilderness, we get a deeper connection to
the landscape, ourselves, and the people around us. We return to civilization
refreshed. As we grow, the Wilderness often remains the same, but we are able
to understand and appreciate it differently. Going into the Wilderness is an
opportunity to drop the baggage we carry around and hit reset in our own lives.
We remember to focus on what is important to us. Like Wilderness, each time a
cycle restarts we become rejuvenated and more full of life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are excited to observe the changes from the cycles both in nature and our lives
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Pinedrops would be recognizeable by its yellow
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Tiny in comparison, Jackson Holte looks out on the mountains<br />
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Wounded Man Lake<br />
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All of Group 1 in a meadow near the top of Jordan pass<o:p></o:p></div>
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4: Zoë Leake and Andrew C</u></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Plugging In<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I am looking out across this lake
at a peak with two small glaciers and the oldest exposed rock in North America.
The Absaroka Beartooths are supposedly one of the wildest places in Montana,
and have been my home for the last five days. As I look out at the water and
the peaks and the most beautifully rich blue sky dusted with white clouds, I
consider myself privileged to be in this place in this moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fresh cold mountain air fills my
lungs and I know what it feels like to breathe. Unpolluted by man and society,
my lungs are no longer struggling for air, no longer constricted by emissions.
Yes, I can actually breathe. With each breath I can hear the loud sounds of the
city dying; the city lights no longer giving light to the night, with no
polluted clouds to block the stars. With this “death” of societal morns comes
new life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">All I hear is the singing of
birds as they wake in the morning, the squirrels squeaking as they chase one
another. This loud noise is happening everyday, all around us, and I have been
a witness to it. The night is lit up with the stars of the universe, a true
light in the dark. With the night comes a new sound – a quiet sound with the
nocturnal animals waking to fill the night with life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As I wander through the
mountains, I feel the cool breeze, the earth between my toes. I begin to understand
that this is how life has been since before man ruled the earth, and I begin to
resent the static-like sounds of the city. It is not the sound of the Earth,
spoken through the wind rustling the leaves or a tree falling and a sapling
taking its place. or the sound the water makes at alpine lakes as the wind
billows tiny waves into boulders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> I realize I am just like the dirt beneath my
feet. Out here I am not a man. I am not a woman. We are of the earth. Our
entire being rests on the shoulders of breathable air, clean water, and
sustenance. I am humbled by Pink Mountain Heather, which seems to grow
effortlessly in a rugged and unforgiving environment while I have spent my
whole life struggling to grow in an environment where everything is at my greatest
convenience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is what is WILD!” says Thoreau. Let us be good and let us be wild. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I stood staring up at the great
cylindrical tubes of rice, grains, and crushed beans towering over me. My mouth
went dry. My hands started to shake. My right knee itched. I snatched at the
plastic bags and started to fill them with random amounts of bean powder,
vegetable soup mix, and white rice. My heart stopped pounding and I relaxed, I
had the food, the people would be fed. Just as I was about to head to the
register a friendly but tired looking good food store employee stopped me and
said "sir, you have to put the product number on the bag so we know how to
price your dry goods. " I mumbled something and turned back to the silos.
It was only then that I realized each one had a label with calories by weight.
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soup and bean mix for four long days, hoping every step of that way that it
wouldn't tear and desperately waiting for my chance to prove I was the greatest
backpacking chef to ever honor the wilderness and civilization program with my
presence. The night had come, Lizzie and I squatted by the twin whisper lights
as they whispered lightly at the pots of water placed atop them. As the
stronger stove brought its contents to a roiling boil I poured the bag of mixed
ingredients into the pot. It almost overflowed with dried food and I still had
a third of a bag left. My stomach dropped. The calculations were wrong. I could
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<b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lizzie</span></b><span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Andrew I think you brought too
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">There was so much diversity in the species around us
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Twenty long minutes had passed.
At this point the rest of students had gathered around the stoves, their eyes
trained greedily on the brown mush. They resembled a pack of wolves, ragged and
anxious. Occasionally someone would offer a comment like “ you should stir it”
as I was stirring it. Everything started to burn. They rice just wouldn’t
soften up. Evan, our guide and guiding light, pointed out that the rice would
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">She had done it, she had
mutinied, defected, washed her hands of me, and her betrayal was complete. The
pot of rice and beans bubbled and burned as I gazed into it, hoping desperately
to find some deeper meaning to all of this. If I couldn’t cook rice and beans
in the backcountry what could I do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">We should just eat it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We spent the trek surrounded by gorgeous scenery.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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such a thing? Fine, let them come, let them devour the poison I created with my
arrogance and my ill planning. They descended and attacked the pot with spoons,
sporks, and forks. They hungrily shoveled the hot brown mess into their mouths
and to my amazement some of them smiled. What was happening? They came for
seconds and thirds. They had their fill. It was almost as if they didn’t need a
five star meal in the backcountry. I heard someone say heartily that they
thought it was a 5 out of 10. Maybe a 5 out of 10 is the best kind of backcountry
meal. Maybe it matters more who you share a meal with, than what you actually
share with them. I looked upon them, no longer wolves, but my friends, happy
and healthy, and I smiled. Lizzie looked down at the burnt layer of beans at
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> After spending so much time
anticipating the fall trek, it seems surreal that it is already behind us. The
weeks leading up to the trek were full of fire belly. Missoula’s sky was
clogged with smoke, and it initiated the fear we would be unable to escape it
for our fall trek. In all the chaos, it
became obvious that once we finally set out on the trail head our lives
wouldn’t slow down for the entirety of the semester. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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of the best and most sought after parts of going into the wilderness is the
ability to escape from society. It is
not always easy to be present in the wildness of the landscapes we traveled
through. At times, you just zone out at the heel of the person hiking in front
of you. Fish stalked lakes, man made and maintained trails, horse tracks and
shoes, and the occasional abandoned trench coat are all reminders of human
influence. However, there were many
times we were able to fully appreciate a moment. As a group, we marveled over the pink skies
of the sunset, the clear waters that carved through grassy meadows, the full
night sky with subtle streaks of milky way, and the peaks rising up on either
side of the valleys we moved through. The lakes seem clearer, the air seems
fresher, the fish taste better but everything is relative. Up on the plateau
the low hanging lenticular clouds were a reminder of how high we were.</span><br />
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days of the week quickly melted away at the foot of the trailhead and all that
mattered was where the sun was at in the sky. There was no need for a watch, no
appointments, no obligations. The thought of life back home occasionally popped
in for a visit but was easily shewed away. With all this static and weight
lifted from the mind it was easier to stand comfortably in awe at the world
around. On our fall trek it became something of a custom to welcome a new view,
or new landscape in with a list of loving appreciation:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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learned about ourselves and our landscapes, but also each other. We spent most
hours of this trip in our group, from the groggy good morning greetings to
evenings spent huddled around a campfire.
We played games, we told stories, and we cooked delicious backcountry
meals for each other. Some of us caught their first fish and a few more
received their first ‘fish slap’. In the
beginning, we all varied in backpacking experience and had different expectations
for what would come of the week. But in
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Kaitlin Martin and J. Chance</u></b></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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participated in the Wilderness and Civilization Fall Trek of 2015 in the
Absorka-Beartooth Wilderness with ten other students and two trip leaders. We started our journey at the West Fork of
the Stillwater Trailhead and hiked forty five miles through the wilderness,
ending at the Woodbine trailhead. Over
the forty five miles, we spent a day journaling in the golden grasses of
Breakneck Meadows, hiked up thousands of feet to the Lakes Plateau, summited
Chalice Peak, saw a porcupine, sang around the campfire, yelled about Clark’s
Nutcrackers, watched the sky light up at Jordan Lake, slapped each other with
fish, and made memories that are bound to last. </span><br />
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shared by all and formed the foundation of our bonds. A five hour car ride
enabled new friendships to spark, and older ones to strengthen. By the time our
feet hit the trail, we could easily say we were entering a new place <i>together</i>.
Conversations waxed and waned as we shared silent admiration for the place we
wandered through. Every night became a ritual, as we made camp and set up an
epicenter of friendships and conversations around a warm and welcoming camp fire.
Social bonds began weaving a web between individuals to make for a strong
connection to the entire group.</span><br />
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layover day, individuals sauntered off into their own personal oblivion. What
began as an assignment, quickly changed into a personal journey of
observations. Forcing our attention to sit, observe, and translate what we were
experiencing into our field journals enabled a beauty to radiate through the
seemingly simple structures of nature itself. Ink spread across pages
attempting to capture these moments of an experience. The act of field
journaling directs our attention into deliberate thought and expression with
the intent of understanding the natural world. It is a skill that we hope we
all continue to exercise and develop. </span><br />
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appreciate what was around us and reflect on our lives. But, we also had time to have fun. As we hiked for hours and hours through the
trees and up switchbacks, singing, jokes, and strange dance moves helped us get
through the day. We came up with silly
trail names, played pranks, and even slapped each other in the face with
fish. The humor that carried throughout
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On the fourth day, one of our field leaders,
Tim, decided to lead a group to the summit of Chalice Peak. There were five who decided to go including
us, Tim, Lauren, and Lindsay. We started
off the day by hiking across the plateau, walking over the rolling hills,
passing by whitebark pine and little lakes and ponds. As we gained elevation,
the vegetation became sparse and the rocks became bigger. We all wandered up, breathing hard with the
thin air, but still in good spirits. We
took our time to pick up small fragment of glittering rocks and look back to
appreciate the view sprawling in the distance.
Finally, we scrambled to the top, all in breathless awe. At 11,200 feet above sea level, we could see
our camp below at Woundedman Lake. We
could also see several other lakes that dotted the plateau including the
pristine cirque that contained Chalice Lake one thousand feet directly below
us. We gazed upon the immense bulk of
Montana’s high point, Granite Peak, and stared into the distance at the faint
outline of the Tetons in Wyoming.
Spending four hours at the summit, basking in the sun, all of us sat and
looked, reflected and appreciated all of what lay before us. </span><br />
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Gorge was carried by bittersweet waters. A welcomed rest lay down-valley at the
trailhead, but also the end our experience together. The sound of school, work,
and relationships crept up to us, invading the wilderness. But, only with the
realization that more adventures, both in wild and civil places, await this
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-56138713281670323422015-05-10T06:50:00.004-07:002015-05-10T06:50:48.974-07:00Clark Fork Organics Internship by Matthew Freeman<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
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you sure you want to shut down your computer now?</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The window on my screen prompts me to click
proceed or cancel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look out the
window, the sun is out, and big sky country is living up to its name. It’s 11am
on an April afternoon and already starting to get hot outside. I choose to
proceed. My computer checks and double checks that it’s closed every vital
application, then the screen goes dark with an audible <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">click.</i> I feel the invisible tethers of modern life loosen. I check
my pockets: wallet, keys, pocketknife, pen, chap stick, but no phone. Perfect.<o:p></o:p></div>
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hop on my bicycle, and hit the river trail. It’s a five-mile bike ride from my
apartment to Clark Fork Organics (CFO) , the perfect distance to shake off any
trailing anxieties or lingering feelings of obligation associated with student
life. Clear of those negativities, I fill myself with excitement at the
knowledge that I get to spend the whole afternoon playing under the sun in the
dirt.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">By playing, I mean working, but the
difference is not always clear to me at CFO. When I show up I take time to look
at all the different seeds I planted, it’s absolutely amazing how fast they can
grow in a week. Because it’s early in the season, much of my time at CFO has
been spent in one of the larger greenhouses planting seeds or transferring
starts to larger trays. The last time I was out there, though, we started
planting starts into the fields.</span></div>
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Out at CFO I find myself in a state
of relaxation, despite the heat and the gentle pressure to plant quickly and
precisely. I signed up for Wilderness and Civilization for a brief escape from
the screen wielding masses in my Media Arts classes, and being out at CFO has
solidified my stance. On a personal scale, I’ve realized the importance of
connecting yourself to something bigger.</div>
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Spending time planting and
nurturing things has helped me develop a greater respect for the vegetables I
pick up at Orange Street Food Farm every week. I believe everyone should spend
time volunteering or working on a farm, developing a closer connection to their
food and their earth. I’ve gained a lot of perspective at CFO, as well as a
personal sense of accomplishment and happiness. I look forward to volunteering
at the P.E.A.S. Farm this summer and continuing my agricultural learning far
into the future.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-21461017983092879342015-04-29T10:27:00.000-07:002015-04-29T10:27:05.471-07:00Society for Wilderness Stewardship by Ashley Balsom<div class="Body" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When I first began my internship
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">what I was getting
myself into. I didn’t even really know what Wilderness stewardship was. My
internship supervisor, Mark Douglas, had been my teacher a year prior, so I
gravitated toward him originally because I was familiar with his teaching style
and I knew I would enjoy working with him. When he said his internship was
about finding stories through Wilderness, I was sold. I’ve never been much of a
story teller, but I have always loved listening to and learning about other
people’s stories. The backgrounds that other people come from fascinate me, so
I figured I would enjoy an internship where I just listened to other people
tell me about their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Starting the internship, it was not
entirely what I expected. The first two articles I ended up writing for the
website involved researching famous Wilderness stewards Edward Abbey and Howard
Zahniser and writing 1600 words on each of them. Because I am not the strongest
writer and I had never written anything for the public sphere, these articles
both ended in all-nighters. I was stressed out about real people actually
reading them, as opposed to my teachers who I knew wouldn’t judge me too much
for a mistake in my writing. However, after discussing the future of my
internship with Mark and getting my first two articles published, my nerves
calmed down and I was able to get to business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My second two articles were both
interviews, per my request. I had really been looking forward to talking to
real people during my internship and asking them my own questions, so these two
articles were the most fun I have had so far. I first interviewed Christina
Mills, a Yellowstone Outdoor Recreation Planner who went to graduate school at
the University of Montana. I got to brainstorm what I wanted the interview to
focus on, and come up with my own questions to ask her. My second interview was
with Alex Weinberg, a classmate of Christina in graduate school. Much like the
first interview, I got to come up with my own questions and really think about
what I wanted to ask Alex. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Through this internship I have
definitely learned the value of time management. My first two articles were so
incredibly stressful, due in part to the fact that I waited until the last
couple of days to write them. I have also learned how to conduct successful
interviews, think on my feet, and talk eloquently on the phone (something I
have always struggled with). I also learned that, without fail, transcription will
always take longer than you think it will.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Alex Weinberg, subject of my last interview (unpublished as of 4/23/15)</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My internship is valuable to me both
as a woman trying to get experience in her field, and as a current Wilderness
and Civilization student. The stories and connections with Wilderness are
incredibly important to it’s conservation, as I learned through my classes last
semester. Without a valuable connection to the land, people would unfortunately
not feel much need to save it. Telling these stories and inspiring others to
seek out similar experiences is an incredibly valuable part of conserving our
wild areas. With more and more people connecting to things via computers, the
importance of creating a sphere of Wilderness Stewardship online is growing.
The idea that someone may read my articles and be inspired to go experience the
Wilderness is nothing short of incredible to me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’m still figuring out what
Wilderness means to me and how I can become a Wilderness Steward after this
internship is over. By writing these articles, I feel that I am not only
contributing to the vast need for online Wilderness Stewardship, but I am
discovering how to answer my own questions. What does Wilderness Stewardship
mean to me? What was my transformative Wilderness experience? I don’t entirely
know the answers, but I do know that at the end of my internship I’ll be a lot
closer to finding out<br />.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-26881513336851064322015-04-22T07:58:00.002-07:002015-04-22T08:01:54.247-07:00Community, Bicycles, and Fresh Food with Free Cycles by Claire Compton<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the first week of January I went out to lunch
with one of my oldest friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shared
stories of important events gone by and made predictions for the year to
come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When the conversation quieted, she
asked me, “If you were to sum up everything that you want for this year in one
word, what would that word be?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
panicked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no idea what to
say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I laughed and gnawed on my salad
when all at once, the answer barreled into me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY6B-UPEOb_DsdESJfzjXJn7gvbGhOJYeLRq-X5Z2uJWCs7k_9ux5ofE5Ip1yK8YRj5wnCf7mxSRb1zb_saXgpSyLsGjTOki46lBtRsAzKeAR8IZIUHFhdxWdHWPaKL0At8knupKuc7U/s1600/DSC_0307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ClyF_k1A69Vu4WO_kwk2X5h-f82RmdzQVkEI1cH_mJipc80wdLVQ0IyYBbkX0ViLZE-W1z6JKqC62WrMtM3x_6ffJjL3z4JGipstptC0FV7XmMWpzXQ7X2FHeCa6Rd9NREu49QkMPo0/s1600/IMG_20150409_140059145.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Community.”</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY6B-UPEOb_DsdESJfzjXJn7gvbGhOJYeLRq-X5Z2uJWCs7k_9ux5ofE5Ip1yK8YRj5wnCf7mxSRb1zb_saXgpSyLsGjTOki46lBtRsAzKeAR8IZIUHFhdxWdHWPaKL0At8knupKuc7U/s1600/DSC_0307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDY6B-UPEOb_DsdESJfzjXJn7gvbGhOJYeLRq-X5Z2uJWCs7k_9ux5ofE5Ip1yK8YRj5wnCf7mxSRb1zb_saXgpSyLsGjTOki46lBtRsAzKeAR8IZIUHFhdxWdHWPaKL0At8knupKuc7U/s1600/DSC_0307.JPG" height="211" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLfZq24fCyXEZVb8Q4r5La-bPa0YOm2b7hLIjX1bXoOviweXJ_FO6RGD9ssD0CGgk5HQtQGVK_TI27k9hB4hk6cshTn77wgEF8SP36wq8KhLkpCK3S8HsS0sTA-iapT_l-5zypy68uGo/s1600/DSC_0290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisGxfmbB_BAjHYt1Sk-llkyA4FGxeCNMH9vKAHHZyNNTnAcp4UxLwwS4bHSZc_aASkpI7F4pFWUtdYj7IxC5sbEh7kHptMOZS6Dg1ylFFwx1INzyghanBOmowFSwvw6IboNcyePvHQzUk/s1600/mobile+garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ClyF_k1A69Vu4WO_kwk2X5h-f82RmdzQVkEI1cH_mJipc80wdLVQ0IyYBbkX0ViLZE-W1z6JKqC62WrMtM3x_6ffJjL3z4JGipstptC0FV7XmMWpzXQ7X2FHeCa6Rd9NREu49QkMPo0/s1600/IMG_20150409_140059145.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ClyF_k1A69Vu4WO_kwk2X5h-f82RmdzQVkEI1cH_mJipc80wdLVQ0IyYBbkX0ViLZE-W1z6JKqC62WrMtM3x_6ffJjL3z4JGipstptC0FV7XmMWpzXQ7X2FHeCa6Rd9NREu49QkMPo0/s1600/IMG_20150409_140059145.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center; text-indent: 48px;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ClyF_k1A69Vu4WO_kwk2X5h-f82RmdzQVkEI1cH_mJipc80wdLVQ0IyYBbkX0ViLZE-W1z6JKqC62WrMtM3x_6ffJjL3z4JGipstptC0FV7XmMWpzXQ7X2FHeCa6Rd9NREu49QkMPo0/s1600/IMG_20150409_140059145.jpg" height="200" width="112" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This semester, my internship has been working
with Free Cycles to build </span>community.
Over the winter, I came up with this hair-brained idea that I couldn’t
shake: what would happen if we started planting vegetable gardens in shopping
carts? Could that address our dependence
on packaged grocery-store food? I met
with Bob Giordano, Free Cycles’ director, and we started bouncing ideas off
each other. It didn’t take long for this
hair-brained scheme to begin to take shape. </div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Since the semester began, I’ve been working with
Free Cycles on a project aiming to bridge the gap between people and our food
sources both physically and metaphorically.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In today’s cities food is obtained by driving to
the grocery store, grabbing a shopping cart, and loading it up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether your food choices are local or
imported, organic or conventional, the act is the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My goal was to take a symbol of this
disconnect, the shopping cart, and transform it into a bicycle trailer mobile
garden to bring fresh food to those most in need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In order to do this, I had to get
well-acquainted with bicycles and bike trailers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found myself ogling the hitches of every
trailer I passed in my daily life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
took a lot of trouble-shooting and problem-solving, but Bob and I managed to
make two shopping cart trailers out of entirely recycled materials, mainly bike
parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This meant I had to learn every
part of a bicycle in order to find the exact part to fit a specific need.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLfZq24fCyXEZVb8Q4r5La-bPa0YOm2b7hLIjX1bXoOviweXJ_FO6RGD9ssD0CGgk5HQtQGVK_TI27k9hB4hk6cshTn77wgEF8SP36wq8KhLkpCK3S8HsS0sTA-iapT_l-5zypy68uGo/s1600/DSC_0290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrLfZq24fCyXEZVb8Q4r5La-bPa0YOm2b7hLIjX1bXoOviweXJ_FO6RGD9ssD0CGgk5HQtQGVK_TI27k9hB4hk6cshTn77wgEF8SP36wq8KhLkpCK3S8HsS0sTA-iapT_l-5zypy68uGo/s1600/DSC_0290.JPG" height="320" width="212" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">While I was still working out the kinks, I began
looking to the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really wanted
to get community involvement, but building the cart was so complicated that it
was hard to imagine getting volunteers to come help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead, I thought it would be fun to host an
event to plant the gardens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I told
Bob about this, he suggested that I tag along with an event that was already
planned: fixing up bicycles for the Boys and Girls Club at Council Groves
Apartments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I contacted the manager
in hopes that she would be interested in hosting me so I could teach the kids
about gardening.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I had never organized anything like this
before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everything had to be timed
perfectly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, I went to the Library
and checked out some vegetable seeds (if you have never used this resource, I
highly recommend it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go to </span><a href="http://www.missoulapubliclibrary.org/collection/5valleys"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.missoulapubliclibrary.org/collection/5valleys</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to check it out).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I borrowed seed starting supplies from a
friend and hoped that the seeds would germinate in time for the event, but not
so soon that they would out-grow their four-packs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the meantime, I finished up the
construction of the trailers and attempted to work out any kinks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mixed up a special light-weight soil blend
that would allow for easier toting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
did a few practice runs before the big day to make sure that everything would
go smoothly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The event was perfect.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">All of my hard work paid off.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The kids were so excited, they raced each
other, pulling the trailers behind them.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">They all gathered quietly and respectfully in order to get </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">their hands
dirty and plant some vegetables.</span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It was
wonderful to experience the joy that gardening can bring to kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">During fall semester, the Wilderness and
Civilization program got me thinking a lot about the problems that we face as
we lose our connection to the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
moments, I got overwhelmed worrying about the future of the interface between
civilization and the natural world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
internship has helped me to understand the many ways in which a person can
foster care for the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While mobile
gardens don’t solve the world’s problems, they encourage people to get dirty
under their fingernails.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have the
potential to help feed communities and plant the seeds of sustainable
agriculture even on the smallest scale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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seasonal shift between winter and spring in Missoula, wildly bipolar in day to
day climactic norms, lends itself to bursts of creativity. After long winter
nights spent inside on the couch reading about the wonder and oppo</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">r</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">tunities of the world,
I'm ready to do everything all at once as soon as the sun rifles its way
through the dingy gray. I popped out of my den on queue with the sun's angle
reaching the tipping point of warmth and thereby growth, and sought out ways to
create. No better way, I think, to bring to fruition all the pent up energy
building through winter than by pounding on hot iron.</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Valley of western Montana, a relatively r</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">e</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">mote depression tucked between two of Montana's most jagged
mountain ranges. He owns a cabin up there, has for a long time. He came down to
Missoula for business over a decade ago, however, and has since not fully
resided in the Swan. Lucky for me, he got himself a forge for his more urban
setting. While living in the Swan he taught himself to simply make parts for
broken machinery and equipment rather than making the haul into Missoula, and now
that he's living here he's more than happy to pass on his knowledge.</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The hammer, the anvil, and the forge. The key
ingredients to shaping metal into a thing of your desire. Other spices serve to
enhance the product, such as abundant scrap metal and a strong grip.</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In the past I always experienced what I
thought of as art from a detached perspective. From abstract landscape
paintings in bizarre color with hidden political and metaphysical depth</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">to incredibly lifelike
alabaster sculptures, I saw the beauty but often coul</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">d</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">n't</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">relate to the
consciousness the pieces had arisen from. In a way that I thought of as
completely separate, I would</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">spend long amounts of time examining the craftwork of a
particularly simple but elegant wooden bench, eyeing all the different pieces
and steps that went into the creation process. I didn't think of a simple but
elegant bench as art, but rather just a well-made utilitarian accessory.</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and what I was seeing as a useful tool are, of course, quite intimate with one
another. The best bench is made through the eye of an artist, someone looking
beyond the initial comfort of taking a seat and towards the su</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">b</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">sequent wandering of
the sitter's eyes and hands for interesting and beautiful things around them. I
feel the melding of the utilitarian and the artistic very strongly when working
with metal. To make a hook from a piece of rebar, I merely have to pound one
end of the piece over the horn of the anvil. I could stop there, and I would
have a pe</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">r</span><span style="color: #5c5c5c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-hansi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">fectly
viable hook for my coat. My capacity for seeing and appreciating beautiful
things, though, would be left to wander in search of something more worthwhile.
By tapering the rebar before bending, by adding a twist, a curled end, an
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thoughts better than hammering a glowing piece of metal into submission. Add
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-17384884675488602472015-04-08T07:50:00.001-07:002015-04-08T07:50:41.236-07:00Bad Goat Forestry and Watershed Consulting LLC Internship by Jacob Seidel<div class="p1">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NWzh_PmqXyQ/VSU_lAePv1I/AAAAAAAABUY/LvAQDoUqss4/s1600/Burn.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-NWzh_PmqXyQ/VSU_lAePv1I/AAAAAAAABUY/LvAQDoUqss4/s1600/Burn.JPG" height="239" width="320" /></a><span class="s1">"Associate's degrees are the best - I don't know why anyone goes further". Great advice from someone who left school just short of a PhD, and especially someone who is such a proponent of educating others. If I had a way of knowing and following Mark Vander Meer's advice, I wouldn't have come to UM and had the amazing experience of working with him and his crew sporadically over the last few months. Mark is the founder of Bad Goat Forestry and Watershed Consulting LLC. Besides the copious number of degrees Mark has accumulated, a good bit of his knowledge originated during his time working with Bud Moore, a local legend who, early on, trapped fur-bearing wildlife in the Bitterroot mountains and later became one of the first Forest Service rangers in the area. Bud also operated a portable timber mill on his property in the Swan valley, where he set a fine example for sustainable forestry practices. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Both of Mark's businesses do a myriad of projects using the best management practices available. They're able to work on a variety of projects - everything from road restoration to timber framing and blacksmithing - because Mark and his coworkers are incredibly well-rounded in this field, and they are all willing to try or learn something new if it means that the outcome of a job will be of a higher quality.</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XLL5mGcvl2c/VSU_k5oDDrI/AAAAAAAABUc/2w1fRSgQuIQ/s1600/Hangers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XLL5mGcvl2c/VSU_k5oDDrI/AAAAAAAABUc/2w1fRSgQuIQ/s1600/Hangers.JPG" height="239" width="320" /></a><span class="s1">One of the forward-thinking ideas being pursued by the city and enacted by Mark & Co. is the use of poplar saplings as a method of water treatment. In a nutshell: instead of retrofitting an addition to the old water treatment plant to purify water with elevated levels of compounds like nitrogen and ammonium, this water will be used to grow saplings. These compounds act as a fertilizer for the poplar, which on the test plot grew up to eight feet (!) in a single season. The water re-enters the ground water system and the Clark Fork safe to consume, and the trees can be harvested later for pulp-wood or other purposes.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">There are few activities that will test the constitution of your hand strength more-so than pruning poplar whips for eight hours a day. Unfortunately (fortunately, though?), I could only help sparingly. 12,000 whips. Sometimes trimming 20+ branches per whip. Brutal. But, there's hardly a better time to learn about your crew, formulate thoughts on Krakauer's new book with the university gracing the cover, or bask in the sunshine-turned-graupel. This was my first introduction to the so-called "Missoula migrant workforce". What a relief from the daily drubbings of mass-lectures, where I could finally feel like I was producing while still daydreaming and watching the clouds catch and bend rays of sunshine.</span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2quECXGOQbQ/VSU_kyxRT9I/AAAAAAAABUU/uKnBsmauzhA/s1600/Muffler%2BPipe.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2quECXGOQbQ/VSU_kyxRT9I/AAAAAAAABUU/uKnBsmauzhA/s1600/Muffler%2BPipe.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a><span class="s1">During one of the last accumulations of snowfall in the Missoula valley, we tried our hand at blacksmithing on a coal-fired forge. Mark began forging out of necessity. At his home in the Swan, it was usually cheaper and quicker to craft a replacement part for the tractor than to get one in Missoula. Christian (my fellow intern, friend, and W+C alum) and I had both been looking forward to this for awhile, and it didn't disappoint: after a brief introduction to how a forge works (you work the fire more than you work the iron), we both came away with wall hangers crafted from old railroad spikes. For me, there's nothing that beats that satisfaction of creating something that's both useful and aesthetically pleasing. The forge works beautifully, but Mark had a dilemma: coal burns dirty and he has an excess of wood from his business; what to do? Enter the wood-fired forge, which can run off wood or bark. Mark, Christian and I spent an afternoon building the second forge, and Mark put the finishing touches on it by ordering a custom muffler that directs air from the bellows to the forge body. What a beauty!</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Our largest project thus far was a prescribed burn in the Rattlesnake valley at Steve Siebert and Jill Belsky's house. Both are currently professors at the University of Montana and they do the best they can to put into practice the science that they specialize in. When they first purchased their home, the steep hill that abutted their house could hardly be seen, choked by small pines and shrubs as a result of fire suppression techniques over the past one hundred years. Little by little, both the professors and Mark's crew thinned the small stand, taking care to not only reduce fuels, but also to create micro-habitats for flora & fauna and provide nutrient and water retention sources for the soil (among other things, Mark is one of the finest soil scientists around). After thinning, and especially after small sample plots of prescribed fire use, stunning wildflowers covered the hillslope below the larger pines and Douglas-fir. Projects like this are complex, especially in the WUI (wildland-urban interface), where a lack of fuels management and a propagated fear of fire has set the stage for dangerous and costly fires, but proactive and practical management can benefit many goals. Finding balance between the human aesthetic/use and biological/ecological needs is difficult, but I think catering to one extreme or the other often produces lackluster results. Was this burn a success? I think so: the stand is now in a more resilient/resistant state concerning many disturbances and is likely closer to it's historical stable state, the property (and adjacent properties) have a reduced risk of catastrophic fires, it still provides good habitat value while preserving aesthetics, and we got to play with drip torches for a day. Not too shabby. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Mark is always tossing new projects and ideas our way, and in turn expects that we do the same. Before the term is over, we'll have tried our hands at tree pruning, timber framing, hand hewing and mechanically milling lumber, and any other random skill that piques our interest. Should we build a sauna? Sure. A solar dehydrator? Why not? I'm sure that most people look forward to finishing their internships (and school), but I'm not. Wilderness & Civilization and working with Mark have connected me to people, places and activities that have made me a more thoughtful, engaged and confident person. I came to UM to grow as a person, and experiences like this internship have been crucial to that. What value is a liberal arts education if the real life skills are dropped in favor of focusing on test scores or memorization skills? For me, this not only verifies the importance of the Wilderness & Civilization program, but also the importance of trying new experiences solely on the basis that it can provide you with new way of seeing and interacting with the world. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-22075831168695528342015-03-24T13:34:00.006-07:002015-03-24T13:34:44.936-07:00From Creek to Website: Interning with the Watershed Education Network By Cory Hoffman<br />
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I love Data! Those three words would play a large part in how I would be spending much of my time working with the Watershed Education Network. The Watershed Education Network, or WEN, is a nonprofit organization that provides education and outreach to the local community to raise awareness about local water related issues. For my experience with WEN, I have had the privilege of getting the hard work and countless hours of data collecting available to the public. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> As it turns out, there has been more enthusiasm by previous interns and volunteers in collecting stream monitoring data in the field, than there has been working with that data on a computer. This is understandable, because spending time wading around in Montana's streams while netting bugs is very appealing. So for a while, this information has been tucked away in binders, awaiting for someone with the time and patience to sit down make it available to the world. </div>
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This is where I came into the picture. What a great responsibility and chance to enhance my skills. While I certainly love being in the outdoors, I felt grateful for the opportunity.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Fortunately I have been on both ends, in the field and in the office. This has allowed me as an aspiring scientist, to get an appreciation for the entire process. From standing in a creek netting macro-invertebrates (bugs), counting them,writing the information in the field, and putting that information into spreadsheets and onto a website where anyone can see it. It is also important as someone interpreting data to understand where biases and errors can occur, when collecting data for research or for conservation management decisions.</div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I have been using a website called citsci.org as a way of bringing WEN's information to the public. It is a site allowing anyone to create projects where you can share data and observations to the public at large. You can also potentially allow others to join your project and contribute their own observations. I had to start from scratch, learning all the details of the website, and whether it would be a good fit for WEN or not, as well as determining the best layout for data sheets and finding a way to appropriately organize the data. Not to mention a great deal of other details that have given me experiences I hadn't had before. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>I also recently got to be a part of the training for the Stream Team, which is a program of WEN's that is involved collecting data on the local watersheds. WEN has a very thorough sampling method that it uses to gauge the local water quality. Biological, chemical and physical variables are all used to assess the overall health of the streams. I learned that mayflies, caddisflies, stoneflies and dragonflies are good biological indicators of pollution levels in a stream, as they are very sensitive. They require cold water, relatively high levels of dissolved oxygen, clear water and a fairly neutral pH, therefore when you find them in a stream, you know the stream is doing pretty well. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span>Other stream monitoring protocols involved pebble counts, which was a random sampling of 100 pebbles to exam the average size of rock on the stream bed. Also there is the grid toss, another sampling of substrate involving a random sampling of a stream bed for fine sediment. Other features sampled were stream velocity, temperature, and the level of browsing on riparian vegetation from ungulates. Possibly one of the most interesting aspects of monitoring though, was using chemicals to check the pH and dissolved oxygen levels. All this information was filed away in my brain to hopefully be used when I am working as a fisheries biologist. </div>
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<span class="Apple-tab-span"> </span> Being in the wilderness and civilization program has strengthened my desire to be an active part of the community I am in. Most of my life I have felt the need to be a conservationist in one way or another, and my time spent interning with WEN has allowed me to do that. Not to mention all the people I work with are some of the nicest people I have ever met, including Becca with her adorable dog George. There is also Deb, who is so positive you can't help but feel good about the world when she's around, not to mention she has a reputation of keeping those in the office well fed with all kinds of good treats. My time with WEN has not only allowed me to gain valuable skills, meet some great people, and have a great time, all while giving back to the community, and the environment.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8000001907349px;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">A Flagship group I had introduced to <br />Trail Names contemplating their<br />new names pictured: Trailmix, Blueberry, <br />Leopard Shark, Heels, Chickadee. <br />Not pictured: MudBud, The Sprinkler, <br />Wizard, Gorp, Ladybug Wrangler,<br />Mountain Lion, Robert.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">My adventures this semester
have consisted of much time spent interning with the Missoula Outdoor
Recreation and Education (MORE) Program.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">
</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">In my time working with the MORE Program I have done everything from
program planning, assisting, and advertising, and even
photographing events. I have worked with multitudes of people and programs
ranging from our homeschooler after school program to working programs with a
recovery center in town.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I have been learning a lot
about a job that I hope to have </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 17.1200008392334px; text-indent: 48px;">one day </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">and have had some great experiences. One
thing I have definitely learned is that unpredictable things happen all the
time and your ability to be flexible is a direct determinant of the success or
failure of a program. For instance, planning a winter carnival and Nordic ski
race when there actually isn’t any snow to be found, or calling your Flagship
program “Winter Sports” when actually you won’t end up doing any winter sports
because Winter is no longer with us; so when the kids ask when you will be
going skiing you better be able to break their little hearts into a million
pieces and then pick up all those pieces and glue them together with even more
exciting things, or things that aren’t so exciting but seem exciting because
you are acting really excited in hopes that the kids won’t call your bluff. I
have learned more about flexibility this semester than I have ever experienced before.
I have learned to ALWAYS have a back-up plan.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I have learned how to better handle
and work with groups of various ages, abilities and even experiences. For
instance, when you unexpectedly get bitten by a kid pretending to be a zombie
it is actually a good thing, it means they like you. I have also learned to
NEVER stop trying to get kids to participate be themselves; and when there is a
preteen who refuses to participate because they are at the age where everything
is suddenly “lame” you just have to show them that it is okay to be a kid and
be silly and like things by showing them that even college students like to
play and are silly. Who knows, they might end up surprising you and melting
your heart by telling you that they are going to be like you when they grow up.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">One of those teachable moments: Flagship <br />group learning about erosion and the importance of staying on the trail.</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">I think one of the most important things that
I learned through these programs, though, was when we just simply went on a hike
with the patients from the recovery center. Working with recovery center showed
me further the importance of just being able to get outside and breathe the
sweet air and absorb the sun rays while you can. They showed me that just
getting out on a hike can be something that can ultimately save you. That day
definitely inspired me to look further into wilderness therapy programs to get involved
with back home.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;"></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Above: One of our Flagship after school </span></span><br />
<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">programs on our visit to the Fire Science Center </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">This internship directly
relates to things that I have learned during my time in the Wilderness & Civilization
Program. The most prominent thing being that I get so many opportunities a week
to have teachable moments with children about topics discussed in Wilderness
& Civilization program; everything from leave no trace ethics, to animal
signs and tracking, to plant identification and botany, to just </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: 0.5in;">the importance of knowing your surroundings.
Even now, I can’t help but hear Professor Clow in the back of my mind and
pounding tables with every new thing I do and experience. This internship has
provided me with the opportunity to bring the past to the present for the
future generations by giving me an outlet to renew my experiences to these
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I don’t know how the idea became
lodged in my head, but for a few years now, I’ve thought that graduating from
college meant that I would finally be free to explore Montana (my native
state): its people, its physical and political landscapes, its history, and its
role in determining my sense of place and my working definition of “home.” I
still grasp tightly the idea of traveling around the state in my cherry-red
Subaru, Roxanne, with my vintage Raleigh, Ramona, strapped to her hatchback,
but I am learning – and will continue to learn in the course of this Spring
semester – that my exploration doesn’t have to be and will not be limited to my
post-graduate education. No, it has begun in the form of an internship with the
Society for Wilderness Stewardship (SWS). I have taken these learning
objectives and applied them to a project hardly-begun for the SWS. The project,
which will be published under the Society’s new writing series <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NextGen Horizons in Wilderness and
Civilization</i>, will be a collection of articles – character sketches, really
– gleaned from interviews I will be a part of this Spring. First, though, a bit
about the SWS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The SWS is an infant of an
organization guided by principles based on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">professional
</i>wilderness stewardship practices. The group is “committed to working
together with those interested in securing the highest level of professional
practice [and works to] maintain an environment that fosters respect,
participation, innovation, and the highest ethical standards of conduct.” Their
philosophies are grounded in a belief in and a want for sound scientific
practices, collaboration between disciplines, nurturing public trust in private
and public organizations, and professional excellence among like-minded
scientists, managers, educators, government and private conservation workers,
volunteers, students, [and] the public.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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My own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NextGen</i> collection – under the working title, “They Came to
Wilderness” – will be a collection of character sketches written with the
purpose of illuminating the career paths and objectives of stewardship
professionals. I have lined up interviews with individuals in the Forest
Service, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe(s), and former Wilderness
& Civilization participants, as well as Montana cattle ranchers, co-operative
farmers, and others – all to learn how their careers have changed, how their
interpretation of the wilderness (or Wilderness) concept has evolved, and how
Montana has played into their professional and personal identities. In order to
adequately and purposefully execute these interviews, I sought the help of Dr.
Alan Watson, a social scientist working at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research
Institute here in Missoula, Montana. Watson recently presented a lecture to the
Missoula public for the Wilderness Institute’s 2015 Wilderness Lecture Series
called, “It’s Bigger than Wilderness: Transformative Realizations from Doing
Wilderness Science.” The following is an excerpt from my response to that
presentation:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watson, I learned, studies the phenology of varying regions around the
United States by translating quantitative and qualitative data collected in the
field into what I will call here, environmental conflict resolution. His
methodologies, especially in gathering qualitative data, can been seen as a
literal bridge between wilderness and civilization; the interviews and surveys
he conducts – both vital aspects of his duties as a social scientist for the
Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute – allow him and his colleagues to
evaluate the social and physical effects of land use.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Watson’s job, like most, is a job overwhelmed by binaries:
nature/society; knowledge/wisdom; untrammeled/uncorrupted landscapes; tracks/trails;
storied/empty landscapes; land users/managers, etc. These dichotomous abstracts
– they are, indeed, abstracts: social constructs of a perceived reality – all
culminate, for Watson, in tradeoffs, in ultimate compromise. I left Watson’s
presentation feeling the ambiguousness of these binaries. [. . .] He has come
to value the uncertainty that has been a part of so many of the stories he’s
collected; he has learned to embrace the discovery process of his research.
Discovery and research seem synonymous with one another, but when you’re a
researcher and an academic of Watson’s standing, discovery – in an exciting,
aha! kind of way – becomes, I imagine, increasingly evasive. He is also acutely
aware that everyone he encounters in the wilderness has a story to tell, and
thus, has a perspective unlike any he has previously encountered.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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After hearing Watson speak about
stories he’s collected from the field, I felt it necessary to speak with him
further regarding his aforementioned research methodologies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Watson is an approachable
character, despite his title and the seeming endless amount of information that
he can deliver. He has a father’s mustache and a head of salt-and-pepper curls
that are unexplainably inviting. Our two hours in his office on-campus flew
fast, and the advice he was able to give me about the interview and survey
processes have already proved invaluable. Beyond speaking to me about
qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, Watson expressed a profound
appreciation for the research process – an appreciation that stems from the art
(and it is, indeed, an art) of asking the right questions. What is the most
important question? I haven’t yet found it, but thanks to Watson, I know now
where to look for it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am a creative writer (not this
semester, it turns out; writer’s block is real, folks), and I so appreciate
this opportunity to combine the practice of writing and the practice of
storytelling with my deepening interest and investment in land stewardship.
This internship will be, I can already tell, an instrumental beginning to my
own discoveries in and of Montana, and will be, I hope, the catalyst for
something great.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To learn more about the Society
for Wilderness Stewardship, jump on over to:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://wildernessstewardship.org/">http://wildernessstewardship.org/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://www.cfc.umt.edu/wi/education/lecture-series/default.php">http://www.cfc.umt.edu/wi/education/lecture-series/default.php</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, visit:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://leopold.wilderness.net/">http://leopold.wilderness.net/</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-53156153637825983522015-03-12T15:21:00.000-07:002015-03-12T15:21:01.641-07:00Wilderness Institute Internship by Kaydee Borchers<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MQfO2vyW_V8/VQIOBVjxXLI/AAAAAAAABOA/0TkQmKmzrdY/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-03-12%2Bat%2B4.06.14%2BPM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MQfO2vyW_V8/VQIOBVjxXLI/AAAAAAAABOA/0TkQmKmzrdY/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-03-12%2Bat%2B4.06.14%2BPM.png" /></a>For my Internship at the
Wilderness Institute I will be working on some specific projects that are both
long and short term throughout the semester as well as other smaller duties
that will help things run smoothly in the Wilderness Institute. The larger
projects include Wilderness and Civilization outreach, planning for the
Freshmen Wilderness Experience, as well as the 40 year anniversary for
Wilderness and Civilization Program.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE68CCBgJ2UWJkAmBVsh_z_2Kv6ummM83MllMlIpTw91VO2HDEty5yrikR2OOywrMtEhVzaH79faIZtFl1DQ4D9oEFMoKm7j6fhMOShRVJiCDAn3v3XtTlWp7EmKLIBVKgKA01oUP-xvc/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-03-12+at+4.05.39+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img alt="Above is a scan of a Kodak slide taken by Bob Ream during the first Wilderness and Civ trek in 1975" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE68CCBgJ2UWJkAmBVsh_z_2Kv6ummM83MllMlIpTw91VO2HDEty5yrikR2OOywrMtEhVzaH79faIZtFl1DQ4D9oEFMoKm7j6fhMOShRVJiCDAn3v3XtTlWp7EmKLIBVKgKA01oUP-xvc/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-03-12+at+4.05.39+PM.png" height="209" title="Above is a scan of a Kodak slide taken by Bob Ream during the first Wilderness and Civ trek in 1975" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Above is a scan of a Kodak slide taken by Bob Ream <br />during the first Wilderness and Civ trek in 1975.</i></td></tr>
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My first project for the
internship has to do with digging into the history of the Program. So far I
have scanned photos from the first Wilderness and Civ. trek in 1975. Bob Ream
has a collection of Kodak slides from that year and I got the privilege of
browsing through them while converting them to digital files.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am learning more about how the
Wilderness Institute works as I spend time around the office. I am learning
more about the Wilderness and Civ. program and what goes into making it happen.
I am finding additional meaning to the program and appreciating the fact that
it has not only survived but made significant difference for 40 years! I am
learning all about the history of the program through interviewing alumni who
are glad to help and have added to the stories in my mind about the program.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A photo take by Bob Ream while the students were <br />taking a load off on the Fall Trek, 1975.</i></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">The
Interviews include a variety of questions that pull some interesting stores out
of the program’s history as well as explain how Wilderness and Civ. helped
these people become who they are. I will choose 5 or 6 of these alumni to
feature on the Wilderness Institute webpage with a blurb and a photo. I will
eventually represent the diversity that comes from the program by choosing the
5 or 6 that have all taken different paths in life. I will be interviewing
people who are artists, scientists, activists, federal agency employees or
maybe all of the above. I am thinking about doing a father daughter feature of
my dad and myself on the alumni page because he was a Civ. student in ’83.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>A potential profile for the Wilderness and Civ alumni <br />page is my dad and me. This photo was taken on a fun <br />day of fishing in the Narrows of Flathead Lake with <br />my dad, also Wilderness and Civ alumni, Bill Borchers.</i></td></tr>
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Along with digging into some of
the program’s history I have also been geared toward promotion of it for the
future. Thanks to over a dozen class visits which put me on the side of the
podium that I am rather unfamiliar with, I have gained communication skills. I also
am becoming more familiar with techniques for outreach, from radio ads to
stealthy poster distribution.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During classes last semester I
gained a lot of passion and the internship has helped me follow through with
inspiring people to do the same, even if they are not interested in the program
I believe that through my enthusiasm I can inspire people to live it up and
work hard. This internship has expanded on what I have learned in the
wilderness and civilization program, specifically the history of such a program
and what it’s all about.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I have been working on outreach
primarily with Marie who has been working in the office as well. Marie and I
are able to work very well together because we encourage each other to push
ourselves and have high expectations for each other’s success. Because of this
we can push against each other to get $hi* done! It doesn’t matter if it’s
licking 500 envelopes to stuff the endowment proposals into or planning the
2015 Wild/Civ. spring campfire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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planning of a program such as the Freshmen Wilderness Experience. The other
will be planning the 40th Anniversary event. I am excited to contribute to
these and put forth my ideas. My learning objectives for the remainder of the
semester include those based around acquiring the knowledge of how a nonprofit
operates as well as how the institute cooperates with the University of Montana
and other agencies. I am also interested in learning as much as possible about
outdoor education so I can be better prepared for my career after school in
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<i>Above is a photo of the most recent Wilderness and
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<i>For some reason, I didn’t expect its blood to be warm. More than warm.
Its blood was hot, and as it flowed down my hand – the hand that was wrapped
around its neck – I was surprised. Hours earlier, I had been the one
responsible for submerging this turkey’s already-dead companions in a hot water
bath of 160 degrees; and now, being the one to nearly choke it, out of fear
that it would struggle itself loose from my grip, being the one to slit – no
cut; slit is too shallow of a word – its throat and hold its head while it bled
out, while it died, was an altogether different experience.</i></div>
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This year’s Wilderness &
Civilization (WC) gang knew, in theory, what was in store for them come
November. The WC program directors had more than alluded to our upcoming participation
in the Thanksgiving turkey “harvest” at Prairie Heritage Farms, so as a
vegetarian, I had had a few months to prepare myself for my role in the harvest
on the 21<sup>st</sup> and 22<sup>nd</sup> of November. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Prairie Heritage Farms (PHF) is a
small farm near Great Falls, Montana on the Fairfield Bench, outside of Power,
owned by <span class="apple-style-span">Jacob and Courtney Cowgill</span>. Hop on
over to their website, and you will learn that the farm is family-run and a
cultivator of organic vegetables, ancient and heritage wheat, lentils, a
variety of other seed crops, and heritage turkeys – these turkeys – which are
birds that a) are naturally-mating; b) have long outdoor lifespans; and c) have
slow growth rates. One can compare these turkeys to factory- and
commercially-farmed birds (which are none of these things) and see that PHF
turkeys are happy and raised with care. The PHF website reads, “Our turkeys are
more flavorful, juicier and just plain better than the factory-farmed ones you
get at the grocery store. They're more expensive, yes, but they're worth it – not
only because they're the best turkey[s] you'll ever taste, but also because
they're raised with love and care.” This TLC is why PHF has sold every one of
their turkeys every year they’ve offered them to the Montana public. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Part One: The Killing Station<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The Killing Station is more of an
open shed situated between a large, closed barn and familiar amber waves of
Eastern Montana pasture. There are two plastic, white buckets on the ground at
the left of this shed, which sit directly under two metal cones. In the barn, the
stomachs of one hundred and thirty-some turkeys, which were herded from the
farm’s open fields a day earlier, are getting lighter and lighter. Because
these turkeys are raised outside, they eat the grasses and the bugs that exist
there; and because it is easier to process turkeys whose gullets and gizzards
are empty of these foods, they are barricaded in the barn a day prior to
slaughter. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Enter four students charged with
the most physically challenging part of the process: catching the turkeys. Once
the first turkey is caught and killed, it is evident that the remaining turkeys
are, to some extent, aware of their fate. Cornering them seems to be the way in
which most students are able to catch them. Me, though – I’m not able to catch
a single one; the feeling of their weight and their frightened stiffness makes
me anxious and hesitant, two things you cannot be if catching a live bird is
your end goal.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Once caught, they are taken from
the barn to the open shed and held upside down, one student containing their
legs, another guiding their bodies through the aforementioned metal cones.
Their heads are pulled through the smaller, bottom hole, their necks held
firmly. With a steady hand, a knife is pressed to their jugular vein. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It takes a turkey somewhere
around five minutes to bleed out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Part Two: The Plucking Station<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Once a bird is caught and killed,
it is brought around the barn to the Plucking Station, which consists of: a
scale on which the bird is weighed (this immediate weight is called its “live
weight”); a large tub of scalding-hot water in which the bird is plunged for a
minute and half – this bath allows its feathers to be easily pulled and plucked
from its body; an automatic turkey plucking machine (what I will call a “turkey
spinner”) that does exactly what it sounds like it does – at its best, it
completely plucks the feathers from a turkey in a whirlwind of water and
extremely fast rubber “fingers” or knobs; and a stainless steel table around
which one to four people stand, plucking the remaining hangers on. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Part Three: Necking<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Featherless, the turkeys are then
carried from the Plucking Station to two large sinks where the necks are
removed from the bodies. My participation at these last stations is limited to
observation, so I’ve enlisted the help of Jacob Cowgill to explain these
processes. (Matt Freeman, a WC student and KBGA college radio personality spent
the weekend recording the harvesting process for a radio spot, and I’ve used
his audio to paraphrase Jacob’s explanation about this processing stage.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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“You’re going to cut back towards
the base of the neck. Here, you’ll find the trachea and the esophagus, held
together by a membrane. Peel back the membrane, and you’re going to follow the
esophagus to the crop (which is where food is pre-digested), and what you’re
going to do is loosen the crop. You’re not going to take it out, you just want
to get it loose. The crop is sort of hard to see, but it’s a sack – a thin sack
– and it’s fairly tough, but it can break. You want to prevent that; you just
want to loosen the membrane from the wall with your fingers. There, at the base
of the crop, you’ll find the trachea. Clean up the skin here. Peel the skin off
the neck. Cut off the neck. You’re going to save the necks; they’re put back
inside the bird before they’re bagged. Finally, you’re going to want to cut off
the scent gland. You’ll see some ‘yellow stuff.’ Clear that yellow stuff away.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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The turkeys are then transferred
to the Evisceration Station, where they are gutted and given a final
inspection. Here, any remaining feathers are plucked, and organs are removed and
sorted; livers and hearts are saved, to be joined by the necks inside the
turkeys before they’re packaged. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Part Five: Post-Processing<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The turkeys’ legs are zip-tied
together and they’re placed in coolers until they reach a temperature of
forty-one degrees (or less). They are then put in a bag, which is placed in hot
water in order to seal them. They are then weighed (given a “dead weight”) and
transferred to the truck that will deliver them to the Montanans that bought
them so many months prior to this weekend.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is a disconnect in the
American food system. Many people are unaware of the production and processing
methods that make a delicious Thanksgiving meal possible. So we, as a
relatively conscientious group of university students, set out to learn what
one of those processes consisted of. While doing so, we made sure to thank
those that were “giving” us their bodies; as each throat released hot blood,
and while each turkey struggled to survive the Killing Station – in a gesture
meant to convey the heavy-hearted emotions most of us were feeling and the
respect we had for their lives – we thanked them. We thanked them for being
unknowing participants in our food system and thanked them for the transfer of
energy from their living bodies into, theoretically, our own. In this sense,
the weekend was not only an education in poultry processing and ethically-sound
consumption, but it was also an exercise in mindfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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I went into the harvest weekend
believing that, should I be able to kill a turkey, I would or should re-evaluate
my own consumption, re-think my vegetarianism. As it turned out, however, the
weekend was lifestyle-affirming. I am still a vegetarian, but should I ever
choose to drift back to my omnivorous self, I know that I will be an educated
meat-eater, and I have no doubt that I will be a thankful one. Happy [Belated]
Thanksgiving.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-35217625984770379302014-12-02T08:59:00.001-08:002014-12-02T08:59:24.762-08:00William A. Clarks Legacy at Milltown By Cory Hoffman<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.5in;">Weather in Montana can be fickle, and so it can be difficult
sometimes to plan ahead for trips outdoors. This was the case when we had
planned on touring the superfund complex up the Clark Fork. While we didn’t get
to see the Berkley Pit, we did get to concentrate on the down-stream part of the trip, at the Milltown superfund site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The close proximity to the University made the trip seem even
more relevant in a way, knowing that millions of dollars were being spent to
clean up a part of the river only a short bike ride from our classroom. Knowing
that the cleaning was being done on a river I walk over all the time on my way
to class, maybe even to talk about this very ecological disaster.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">First we met up with the park manager, Michael Kustudia at
the parking area to the Milltown overlook. It turns out that he was very
familiar with the area before working here, having grown up just across the
highway in Bonner, and spent time at Milltown Reservoir as a kid. This gave him
a personal appreciation for the way the dam and reservoir were perceived by the
local community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael gave us a history lesson starting with the Salish use
of the area. Before the Clark Fork was dammed up, there were large bull trout that
migrated up the Blackfoot river all the way from Lake Pend Oreille in Idaho.The
confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot was a popular fishing spot for
people living in the area hundreds of years ago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But then of course, “The richest hill on earth” was
discovered, in the later part of the nineteenth century, forever changing many
parts of western Montana’s landscape including the Clark Fork River. Copper
king William A. Clark who owned much of Butte at that time had a lumber mill in
Bonner. In order to get power for his mill he built the dam in 1908. Shortly
after the completion of the dam, a giant flooding event washed huge amounts of
heavy metals from upstream where they eventually settled behind the dam. This
caused contamination of the local ground water, and eventually leading to the
designation of the sight as a superfund site. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael was quick to point out where artificial logs made out
of coconut fibers were installed near the bank of the river to plant willows in
and stop erosion. He also pointed to a group of willows that had come back on
their own, along with some cottonwoods. He said some people had theorized that
the seeds had been under the soil for over one hundred years, waiting for their
chance at life in an entirely different world than that of their ancestors. The
reseeding that was done by park employees was part of what Michael called the
three R’s of superfund sites, remediation, restoration, and redevelopment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We could
look just upstream at where the cottonwoods were already mature, and get a good
sense of what the area would look like in the future. Although humans have a
knack for disturbing ecosystems, and in the case of the upper Clark Fork, really,
really disturb it. It’s good to see that we can put some of these landscapes
together again. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-42215790398909648152014-11-24T10:22:00.005-08:002014-11-24T10:22:45.613-08:00 Tracking: The Odyssey by Simon Dykstra and Luke Santore<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Its safe to say that none of us knew what to expect when we learned that we were going on a wildlife tracking field trip. Even more confusion was caused upon learning that our first stop was Walmart. </div>
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We spent the first hour of the day perusing the wrong Walmart for any sign of our teacher. Unfortunately we had not yet learned how to track, so we resorted to direct communication. Once we arrived at the right Walmart (who knew there was two??) our teacher quickly grasped our attention. He lead us past the neighborhood pawn shop and pointed out some stray beer cans. "Signs of the local denizens! We may wake someone up." In classic Wilderness and Civ style, we proceeded to tromp through the underbrush until we reached our destination- the underpass under Reserve. With a four lane highway roaring overhead, we studied the ground at our feet. Most of us had never tracked anything before. Raccoon prints were baby hands and cranes were clear evidence of Big Bird. We never expected to find a major wildlife corridor under a heavily trafficked bridge. By mornings end however, Casey had given us a wealth of tracking knowledge. Enough to go make educated guesses at the MPG Ranch. </div>
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We pulled up next to an excavator and a half built mini-shed and wandered down into the floodplain that borders Highway 12 and the Bitterroot river. Over the next seven hours, we hiked about a mile and a half and had a great time doing it. Every aspen grove and field was filled with adventure and knowledge. We learned the story of the field mouse a.k.a the vole. Its a tiny thing with big impact. Casey revealed its corridors within the grass. Barely noticeable to the untrained eye. He told us that they are in fact ecosystem engineers on par with beavers (wow!). In the winter they nibble on baby trees just budding out of the ground, effectively stalling forest succession. The effect is a more open and varied habitat more suitable to the likes of Elk and other wildlife. This is but one example of how much Casey had to say about every track or sign we passed. Each one held a bit of history in it. They could tell us how and when an animal moved through. Tracks and signs could also tell us the <i>way</i> in which an animal moves through the forest. This simple bit of info seemed to, as Casey said, develop a more direct and personal, even intimate, relationship with wildlife. It was plain to see that plenty of animals lived inside of Casey considering how he emulated the cambium-gnawing Elk with such precision. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beautiful sunset while waiting for certificates</td></tr>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPCJh2p2H_LJZXqIriyirPD7JSmLrh1g2xy4KpYaLsFt-1KcEVXD0iQlu8j7Igno_PkuTOfcvOH8kuOZzWBAm2H1MoMLGIMnsz11O_a_sw3pLa5P-4qA91sHHCDxR_57ZCpVPwCf5NFao/s1600/Purty+patience.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPCJh2p2H_LJZXqIriyirPD7JSmLrh1g2xy4KpYaLsFt-1KcEVXD0iQlu8j7Igno_PkuTOfcvOH8kuOZzWBAm2H1MoMLGIMnsz11O_a_sw3pLa5P-4qA91sHHCDxR_57ZCpVPwCf5NFao/s1600/Purty+patience.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Tracking is often called natural literacy. Not being able to read and write is as much of a hindrance as not being able to read the sign in the landscape around you. We all found a new value in the outdoors that we never knew had existed. Tracking wildlife gives you a unique perspective into their world and behaviors, making them more than just animals who live in the woods. Each sign we observed told a story of the intentions and intelligence of the creature making it. Wether or not we earned certificates in tracking, the knowledge we gained was invaluable. We all walked away with a new appreciation for the life of ecosystems, an impressive feat considering our background in the outdoors. </div>
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“Here we go again” was the thought that crossed my mind as I
met at the UMT Motor Pool with my fellow sleep deprived and greasy Wilderness
& Civilization students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
no chance to relive the Trixie’s bar experience on this field trip, for we were
headed towards the strange lands of Idaho.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Our instructor, Natalie Dawson, turned onto highway 12
outside of Lolo, MT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A vehicle full of
caffeine fueled college students pleaded our case to make a “quick” stop at
Jerry Johnson hot springs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a lead
foot on the gas and a sarcastic chuckle the Judge simply replied with,
“no”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Accepting the Judge’s decision we
turned on the jams and took in the multitude of fall hues that streamed passed
the windows like water colors.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Our next area of inspection was Fort Fizzle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the way we drove to the Lolo complex fire
and the Judge explained that this area was a cold pocket where the temperatures
often drop below freezing because of the low lying area surrounded by
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Returning to the Motor Pool the Judge released us on parole
and another eye opening field trip was in the books.<o:p></o:p></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-72304583978272182142014-10-27T14:14:00.002-07:002014-10-27T14:14:23.058-07:00Glacier Slough and Visit with Kari Gunderson written by Claire Compton and Juno Boland, images by Claire Compton<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Nestled away just west of Highway 83
and east of Lindbergh Lake is a little place called Glacier Slough. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">It’s a beautiful slough (another word for
swamp or marsh) especially in the fall when the water has receded and the sun,
low in the sky, illuminates multi-colored leaves of trees preparing for
winter’s sleep. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Just a mile and a half
of light hiking will take you there.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">Along
the way you’ll pass myriad landscapes: from a small meadow showcasing grasses,
shrubs, bear grass, and baby pines, to a young forest closing its canopy cover
and dominating its domain.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">As you get
closer, you’ll find the trees are getting bigger and the plants more
diverse.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">When the young forest had been
harvested, this had been left.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A lunch break under the ponderosas</td></tr>
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explain a phenomenon that I refer to as the “ant syndrome.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When hiking in a group of people along a
trail only wide enough for one at a time, the footsteps of the person ahead of
you can become hypnotizing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You hike,
but your surroundings tend to fly by as you get lost in conversation or in your
own thoughts and you feel as big and important as you always do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That being said, when your group stops and
your eyes break off their love affair with the ground and all at once you see
that the trees are no longer slender and uniform, but huge or dead or covered
in other forms of life, then all at one moment, you shrink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old growth forests have the ability to take
away your ego and self-importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life
teems around you, above you, before you, and it will after you as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are awe-inspiring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">After
our hike to the Glacier Slough we drove to Condon to meet with Kari Gunderson,
a forest ranger in the Mission mountains and an adjunct professor in the
College of Forestry at the University of Montana. She was a fascinating woman
to talk with. We sat next to her garden beside the pond as we ate lunch and
introduced ourselves. She wanted to know where each of us was raised and which
Wilderness area we were closest to geographically growing up. Her knowledge of
the United States' Wilderness areas is very extensive and she had a personal
connection with each Wilderness that we named, having worked in or travelled to
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt;">She said
she is planning on writing her memoirs and after listening to her speak for
only a few hours, I cannot wait to read them. From what I gather from her
anecdotes, the techniques she implements in the field are unique and effective.
She approaches a situation with an open mind and her solutions to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">the problems
she faces are so simple yet ingenious at the same time. For instance, she told
our group what she would, if ever she were to encounter a mountain biker in a
Wilderness area, simply inform them that she's a forest ranger and demand their
front bicycle tire with the intension of returning it to them at the trailhead
once they had packed their mountain bike out of the restricted area. She is
full of simple yet unorthodox solutions to everyday issues regarding
backcountry management. It was a pleasure to listen to her matter-of-fact and
good humored way of speaking. I hope there are many more forest rangers like
Kari Gunderson but whoever succeeds her when she does decide to hang her hat,
has big shoes to fill.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-11262615332507881582014-10-08T12:56:00.000-07:002014-10-08T12:56:00.359-07:00The Crown of the Continent in Five Days by Jacob Seidel and Kaydee Borchers<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just shy of Canada in the small rural community of Polebridge</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As our Wilderness and Civilization
class toured the Crown of the Continent, from Bigfork, to Polebridge, Two
Medicine-Badger, Triple Divide, and around to the Rocky Mountain Front, an
overarching sense of responsibility was present. The responsibility to care and
participate in the protection and enjoyment of the places we visited. Here is a
concept which cannot easily be ignored; to be conscious about the environment
around us and make changes to help out rather than to just take up space.
Discussion with Mark Heaphy about how he lives sustainably and participating in
pika and mountain goat surveys near Triple Divide Pass are a few examples of
how we explored different ways to live responsibly and participate actively. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What impacted me the most about the trip
was being able to do my learning at the place where the topic was most
relevant. By being in the environment which we were discussing I built an
emotional relationship with my surroundings which increased how much I cared
about what we were learning at the given moment. For example, while learning
about the fen ecosystem on the Rocky Mountain Front I was also sitting at a
great viewing spot, looking at a fen that was right in front of me. From hands
on experience to discussion about the politics in conservation we were able to
gain a new “panoramic” perspective on how we can interact with our environment.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;">Monitoring for Pika and Mountain Goats near Triple Divide Pass</td></tr>
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<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Throughout the visits we had with
local leaders and managers, it was apparent that everyone is passionate about
protecting the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. They all have a different
relationship with the land, yet it is important to focus on the underlying
values that can bring different people and groups together. Gary Burnett, the
executive director for the Blackfoot Challenge, epitomized this concept with
his “80/20 rule”, where we focus on the 80% of issues that we share a common
stance on and work on the other 20% later, once we’ve built trust and
fellowship. Gary and Lou Bruno, from the Glacier Two-Medicine Alliance spoke
about not compromising on values, which could sacrifice portions of what we
hold dear. I was thrown off by these comments at first, as they seem so foreign
to the ideals of compromise that often are necessary to get anything done in
this country. It is a struggle to balance the want to do something that has an
immediate impact with the patience to fight for more. Gary and Lou both shared
this philosophy, but their attitudes and methods were distinct. As a student,
being able to see how people who care about similar issues but tackle them from
different angles was very informative. There is no handbook or cookie-cutter
method on how to make a difference, it just starts with passion and will. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">From Flathead Lake, we continued
north to Polebridge, the quaintest lil’ community you ever did see! With a
year-round population of only sixty people and a history of independent-minded
residents, this off-the-grid “town” provided an excellent stop to look at the
intersection between humans and the wild, and how they continually shape each other.
After climbing a short while to a lookout tower, which afforded us a view of
the North Fork of the Flathead River, Polebridge, Glacier’s western extent, and
the Whitefish range, we casually discussed river dynamics on the landscape, the
history and future of mining development in the basin, and the changing
community structure in Polebridge. Though it has escaped a lot of attention,
more people are looking to move to areas like Polebridge, with just enough
amenities to stay sane but more wild lands than anyone could ask for. Many of
the new residents have different ideas on how to interact with the community or
want to live a different lifestyle than the current and historical residents,
which obviously changes the culture in such a small place. The North Fork
valley has also had interest from developers in the mining industry. This has
been the focus of the North Fork Watershed Protection Act, which is currently
in congress but, if passed, will provide protections for the North Fork from
large development activities, especially resource extraction. I have faith that
Polebridge will retain it’s character for a long time, the North Fork will be
protected, and the mercantile will continue to make the best bear claw’s
around.</span></div>
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4th day climbing toward Triple Divide Pass, which sits just north of Triple
Divide Peak. The peak’s moniker is derived from its affect on the hydrology of
the local area as well as all of North America. Theoretically, a water droplet
that falls on the peak could drain into either the Pacific Ocean to the west,
Hudson’s Bay and the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Atlantic to the east
(although some are skeptical if this is the actual exact spot where this
happens…). Our focus, however, was on conducting citizen science wildlife
surveys of pika and mountain goats. The low clouds made fall feel real and lent
a mysterious beauty to the landscape, but obscured the view of our mountain
goat spotters. Pika crew #1 realized the difficulties of conducting science in
a natural landscape as well, when they couldn’t locate the previous site
marker, and almost came out empty-handed. As they were leaving the newly
situated site, they hear the high-pitch, almost comical “meep!” of a nearby
pika. During the rest of the hike we spotted elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats
(but not at survey sites), moose, squirrels and a few species of birds. As we
elevated beyond Medicine Grizzly Lake and the lower horizon of the clouds, I
was struck by the ethereal beauty and power of the landscape, where the forces
of nature (generally) run free of their own accord. At the top of the pass two
of the three major watersheds that Triple Divide forms became visible. It was
easy to see from this vantage point how important small, localized features are
to the greater environment, how important they are in our culture and beliefs,
and how important it is to continue protecting these invaluable places. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8980793766900971204.post-21789107678611809772014-10-08T12:52:00.000-07:002014-10-08T13:01:51.522-07:00Reflections on Magruder Corridor Fire Succession Field Learning Experience Photos and narrative by John Harrington<div class="MsoNormal">
On Friday, October 3, 2014, students in the Wilderness and
Civilization Program had the opportunity to meet with Mick Harrington and David
Campbell. Mr. Harrington is an experienced Fire Succession Ecologist and
lifelong native of Western Montana. Mr. Campbell is a retired Wilderness
Manager, who at age eighteen began working for the Forest Service as part of a
fire suppression team. He climbed the ranks of the USFS, working as a
Wilderness Ranger for many years.</div>
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The chilly morning began with a practical examination of an
old-growth Ponderosa Pine forest that has been heavily managed in order to
reduce underbrush. Mr. Harrington explained that because the Ponderosa crown is
so far from the forest floor, and has fire resistant bark, it has historically
been able to resist traditional fire regimes in this area. With fire
suppression becoming the modus operandi of the twentieth century, this changed.
Douglass fir, typically cleared by fire regimes in this area, has grown in
tandem with the Ponderosas, threatening them. When the Douglas Fir grows too
near to the crown of a Ponderosa, the later becomes susceptible to what would
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The Forest Service has embarked on
a project in this area to harvest the growth around these Ponderosas (mainly
Dogulas Firs) and sell them for timber. This practice has proved controversial,
as many parties have accused the USFS, and Mr. Campbell is particular, for
being financially motivated. Mr. Campbell argues that such measures are
necessary to undo the damage done by a century of fire suppression. Wilderness
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<i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Wilderness and Civilization students examine<br />infrared maps overlaid on fire history mapping. </i><br />
<i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">In areas recently (<10 years) burned,<br />the heat signature of the fire is much less,</i><br />
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Throughout his career Mr. Campbell
has taken a “hands-off” approach to fire management in his district. He argues
that fire is a natural and necessary part of ecological succession, and his
belief is backed by scientific evidence that Mr. Harrington has helped to
gather. Harrington and Campbell are often criticized for their beliefs. One
such example would be the wash out that our group viewed while traveling down
the corridor. Some within the Forest Service argue that if the fire that crept
through this hillside had been suppressed, that financial resources would have
been saved from having to clear the road.</div>
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<i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">Above is an example of primary succession. </i><br />
<i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">This stand has just experienced </i><i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;">a </i><i style="font-size: medium; text-align: start;"><i>disturbance </i></i><br />
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After lunch, we continued further
West along the corridor to view the ongoing Ravens Creek complex. I was
astonished at how little damage this fire had done. Most trees were left
unburned, the undergrowth now ash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
group was able to watch an old downed log carry the fire to a decaying tree
stump, where it will likely smolder for days. Even though this fire was in its
end stage, it was a profound learning opportunity to see just how gentle a
wilderness fire can be in contrast to harsh alarmist news reports. Watching the
fire gently smolder along was actually peaceful, and our group enjoyed its
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This trip provided the
group with an excellent field learning experience regarding fire management,
succession, and politics. Riding with Mr. Campbell, a few of us also learned a
lot about the bureaucracy inherent within the Forest Service and his personal
climb through it. For the sake of objectivity, it would have been interesting
to have visited with a community member holding an opposing viewpoint regarding
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To learn more visit the Forest Service website below: <a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nezperceclearwater/recarea/?recid=16482">http://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/nezperceclearwater/recarea/?recid=16482</a></div>
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On Friday September 12<sup>th</sup> our Wilderness and Civilization class went out on bikes and rode around Missoula with Bob Giordano, the pioneer behind the Free Cycles Community Bike Shop and MIST (Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation). Our goal was to look at the idea of sustainable transportation and how that fits in with the city of Missoula. We started our day with a presentation from Bob Giordano on the bicycle culture in Missoula. He pointed out that over the past fifteen years the city has started to become more of a bike friendly town. They have done this by putting in more bike lanes and paths, creating safer intersections with roundabouts, and adding safer pedestrian crossings over the Clark Fork River. After his presentation we all grabbed our bikes and rode around town looking at examples of the changes.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Our first stop was at the Free Cycles shop. We were given a tour of the warehouse full of donated bike parts that are used to help build bikes to sell or give out. At Free Cycles they offer a place for you to take your bike and fix it for free. They also have a program that allows you to build a free bike, all you need to do is take one of their BikeWell classes and do 4 hours of service at the shop then you can use their parts and build your own bike. All of their services are free but donations are always accepted and a great help to keep the program running.<o:p></o:p><br />
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While riding, we stopped at the roundabout at Beckwith and Higgins Avenue, an intersection that used to be very dangerous. Luckily though, through the support of everyday people and promoters of the bike culture, in 2009 a roundabout was put in. Since the addition of the roundabout there have only been two minor fender benders and no injuries. There are many benefits of having roundabouts, one is that they slow down the traffic making it a safer intersection but at the same time keep traffic moving. We looked at many different roundabouts in town that day, each having the same greater goal of safety but representing it in a different way. This is only the start to the changes that Girodano would like to see in Missoula. In the future he is hoping to see more roundabouts at major intersections, such as Higgins Ave and South 4<sup>th</sup> Street, making travel safer for bikes, cars, and pedestrians.<br />
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Coming from a city in Indiana that is going through many of the same changes with travel safety as Missoula, I have seen the benefits of roundabouts in a community and how they help. Also as an avid bicyclist it is nice to see changes that allow for safer travel on roadways.<br />
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During our lunch break at Circle Square in downtown Missoula, Giordano shared with us his dream of using a section of road in the downtown area as a city common area where only bike and foot traffic were allowed. A place that people can sit and relax as well as meet with others and enjoy downtown. This is only one of Girodano’s many ideas that he has for the city. Another one of the big projects that he is promoted through MIST is an idea to redesign the layout of the Higgins Bridge. As of right now it is a 4-lane bridge with a small bike lane and even smaller sidewalk. The hope is that they can get it redesigned to accommodate 2 lanes of car travel with 9-foot bike lanes and sidewalks making a more practical and protected area for pedestrians.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As our field trip came to a close we all felt very inspired to help with the cause of making the city of Missoula a safer and more enjoyable place to ride. Visit strans.org to learn more about the Free Cycles community shop or MIST and all of their road projects.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Rocky Mountain Front, where the great rolling plains are broken
vertically into jagged peaks, is referred to by the Blackfeet people as “the
backbone of the world”, and it was there they would go to seek wisdom and
spiritual guidance. The plains were home to them, but the mountains held
something of the sacred. In the final days of August, our Wilderness and
Civilization class took to these very mountains for eleven days. <span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We walked south along the Two Medicine River, crossing down into the
Badger creek drainage, over the pass onto Strawberry Creek, through Gateway
Gorge, and along Birch Creek until we broke out onto the plains again near
Swift Reservoir. <span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To be in the backcountry for such a long uninterrupted period of
time is to experience a distinct difference of mentality from shorter trips.
There are no complications and external pressures that define life in the
civilized world. After a few days of acclimation, the entire sphere of one’s
normal life in town seems distant and not influential. You are left to be
exactly where you are. The changing landscapes become the pattern of the days-
going from one valley to the next through shifting forests and burn areas, high
alpine and aspen parkland. <span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">As we hiked along our route, observing and identifying the flora
around us was of particular importance. To fully identify and come to terms
with a plant takes time. In a trip of such long duration, we had the ability to
truly understand the flora in context of its environment, distribution, and
varieties of appearance. We didn’t just learn to identify the lodgepole pine
from a guidebook- we saw the gradient of lodgepoles throughout burn areas and
recovering areas, we made dinner on its fallen needles, and we felt the way it
shaded out the sun to create moist understory habitat. It was in this way we
became familiar with the landscapes throughout the days. <span style="mso-font-kerning: .5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">There is a difference between theoretical knowledge and the true
holistic understanding that comes from experience. Our trip along the Rocky
Mountain Front was defined by experiential learning of the place that we were
moving through. Care for a place isn’t engendered from external formal education.
It is difficult to feel care for something you have no memory based experience
of. But I know for myself and every person in my group, that we all now have a
great care for the landscapes of the Badger Two Medicine area. The place was
not the backdrop for our backpacking trip, but an active and alive part of the
experience. For a while, our human lives ran parallel to the life of the Rocky
Mountain Front ecosystem. This connection will endure throughout the semester
as we now embark on the academic side of learning about the wilderness.
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backing to help in the efforts to protect, conserve, and manage this special
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<b>Fall Trek 2014 </b><i>Reflection by Sanders Smith, Photos By Kaitlyn Kriz</i><br />
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It was quarter after seven on August 27th and the sun was creeping over the eastern edge of Missoula. We, this year’s students in the Wilderness and Civilization program, met up in a parking lot before departing on our fall trek to the Bob Marshall Wilderness and Badger Two Medicine area.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While we waited for our transportation to arrive, all twenty of us sat around in a big circle munching on some pre-trip snacks. Our backpacks were comically large – stuffed to the brim with eleven days food and gear. Despite the heavy load and the early hour, everyone looked eager.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were divided into two groups – ten students and two facilitators in each. The first group was headed to Mariahs Pass, hiking generally southeast through the Badger Two Medicine and the Bob, ultimately ending up at Swift Reservoir. The other group, my group, was essentially taking the same route but in reverse, heading in at Swift and out at Mariahs Pass. We hopped into our respective cars and took off.</div>
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Before hiking, my group stopped in Augusta and met with Hal Herring to learn some background of the area. Hal is an accomplished journalist with articles on conservation, energy development, and wildlife politics published in big time journals (Field & Stream, High Country News, etc.). He talked about the history of the Rocky Mountain Front, oil and gas development, the Bob Marshall and wolves. The topics all felt so interconnected that it was hard to tell where one ended and the next began. He spoke passionately throughout his talk but was especially emphatic about the role of politics and policy in shaping the landscape we were about to enter. He wished us a good trip and, with that, we left for Swift Resevoir.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was a quintessential late summer afternoon in Montana: 80something with a slight breeze, the sun glinting off the wind-rippled surface of the water. Lumplets of cottage cheese cloud drifting lazily in the deep blue sky. Pine scent clinging to the mountain air. We hiked around the picturesque reservoir and found an ideal campsite near its southwestern end. We discussed Leave No Trace Principles before setting up our tents. We cooked dinner, ate, made a campfire, and prepared to call it a day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The sky had darkened. Overhead, an unfathomable number of stars pinpricked the night. To the east, over the reservoir, the horizon glowed. Nobody knew what it was. There was no city, no streetlights, no reason for a glow in that direction. The glow ascended and grew more intense. The light shifted color and shape. A green then yellow band of luminescence, the aurora borealis, was jutting streaks of itself high into the firmament. We watched as the phenomenon painted the sky and the mirror topped water.</div>
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We woke up, broke camp, and hiked. We hiked every day but one, about 5-7 miles per day. All told, around 65 miles or so. Every one of those miles was noteworthy, but for the sake of brevity (this would be a pretty long blog post if I treated every day as descriptively as the first one), I will focus on some highlights:<o:p></o:p></div>
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-We saw grizzly bear, black bear and wolf tracks! Whoa!!<o:p></o:p></div>
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-<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt;"> </span>We each prepared a lesson for the group and taught it! We had topics ranging from traditional Blackfeet storytelling to arachnids; wolves to geology! Cool!<o:p></o:p></div>
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In our 11 days out, we amassed a considerable amount of both knowledge and stank. Just as the smell of campfire and body odor took more than the wash a few showers to fade from skin, I am sure that these memories and lessons will take more than the wash of a few years to fade from mind.</div>
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My Wilderness and Civilization internship culminated on a
cloudy spring day in early May. I sat on
the forest floor with a group of women, the smell of pine needles and moist
earth fresh in the morning air. Our
introductions to one another brought up similar desires for the day: wanting to feel competent, understand how to
assess risk, learn technical skills, and most importantly, wanting to gain
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For my project, I partnered (through the Wilderness
Institute) with an organization called SheJumps to run a women’s outdoor rock
climbing clinic in Missoula.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I
began searching for a topic I knew I wanted to use my love of outdoor adventure
to create a project that was meaningful. Bridging the gap between my
recreational lifestyle and my engagement with my community is something that
has been on my mind throughout the Wilderness and Civ. semester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My advisor, Natalie Dawson, suggested working
through SheJumps to create an event that would reach out to other women in the
community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SheJumps’ mission is to
empower women through increasing female participation in outdoor
activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the organization
does not have a presence in Missoula, the objective of my internship (beyond my
own personal learning and service) became introducing it to the area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A town full of athletic and adventurous
females, Missoula has huge potential for being a hub of communication, sharing,
and growth amongst women.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Creating this event was about a more personal exploration
than simply fulfilling an academic requirement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-no-proof: yes;">A lover of mountains, I</span> find my greatest internal growth in backcountry skiing and
climbing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is something incredibly
satisfying about being competent and able to step up and take the lead, whether
it is during a day of climbing at a local crag or the planning of a long,
remote trip. Striving to work towards SheJumps’ mission gave me a chance to
reflect on my own behavior as a female athlete and the relationships I form
with my adventure partners, male and female.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Too often, I’ve found myself in the position of backing down and feeling
inadequate in comparison to my partners, even when I have valuable knowledge
and skills.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why is it that women so
often step back and take a submissive role?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Is it at times easier than stepping out, speaking up, and being
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My internship also confronted me with the reality that
running female-only events is at once important and also very exclusive. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times, the process of advertising and
recruiting participants became uncomfortable and made me think hard about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">why</i> I feel so strongly that female-only
space is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The majority of my adventure partners are male
and I enjoy the balance and dynamic of my interactions with them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I don’t enjoy are the times when I back
down and lose my ability to confidently state what I think:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>something that happens more frequently when I
am in mixed or male-dominated groups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
me, having female-only trips gives an opportunity to re-gain confidence and
practice communicating in a supportive environment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once I’ve found my voice and confidence with
other women, I can transfer those patterns to my interactions with men.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve realized that ultimately, this ability
to be confident and a leader with all of my adventure partners is a skill that
I have the responsibility to develop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
hope that over the course of the coming months SheJumps can begin to have a
presence in Missoula, and more women will begin that journey towards feeling
comfortable and confident in their knowledge and decision-making, no matter who
they are recreating with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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