21 years old, working part time jobs, unsure about finishing school, and in desperate need of an adventure ... that's exactly where I found myself a little over a year ago. Where was I going? What was I doing with my life? These questions frequently ran through my mind and I desperately needed to find a solution.
Read MoreTopics: Alumni, Behind the Scenes, Lander, NOLS Rocky Mountain
Topics: Alumni, Behind the Scenes, leadership, NOLS Rocky Mountain
NOLS is contesting a recent rule implemented by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) that resulted in the downgrading of water quality standards for approximately 76 percent of streams in Wyoming. Many of these streams meander the lands used by NOLS courses throughout the Wind River Mountains, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming Range, and the Red Desert.
Read MoreTopics: backcountry, education, Environmental Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability, NOLS Rocky Mountain
Topics: Alumni, cooking, Live the Dream, NOLS East Africa, NOLS Rocky Mountain, Semester, video
Topics: Alumni, backcountry, cooking, Expedition Prep, NOLS Rocky Mountain
Topics: Alumni, Behind the Scenes, llama packing, NOLS Rocky Mountain
Matt Kearns spent the spring of 2015 on a NOLS Outdoor Educator Semester. From backcountry skiing to whitewater canoeing, he did it all. Read about his semester, funded in part with his veterans benefits, and how it helped give him the space and direction to consider a career in the natural sciences.
Read MoreTopics: backcountry skiing, Backpacking, canyoneering, climbing, Live the Dream, NOLS Rocky Mountain, NOLS Southwest, Semester, video, Wilderness Medicine
There are many uses of public land, and they don’t always align. For example, it would be challenging for NOLS to teach wilderness skills surrounded by oil and gas development. How do managers decide what should be done with a tract of public land? Ideally, they hear from the people who use the land.
Read MoreTopics: Environmental Stewardship, Environmental Stewardship & Sustainability, NOLS Rocky Mountain, Wyoming
By Kimberly Germain
Read MoreTopics: Alumni, horsepacking, leadership, Live the Dream, NOLS Rocky Mountain
“It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods. Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation ... Gradually the cool dim gray of the morning whitened, and as gradually sounds multiplied and life manifested itself. The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy ... All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.”
Read MoreTopics: Alumni, leadership, NOLS Rocky Mountain, Live the Dream, mountaineering, backcountry
