Please forward to interested students and colleagues. Semester in the Wild now accepting applications for Fall 2013. The University of Idahos Semester in the Wild program is now accepting applications for the 2013 fall semester. The program, open to any undergraduate student, runs from late August through mid-December. Participants will earn 15 upper-division credits while studying river ecology, environmental writing, wilderness and protected area management, western literature, and outdoor leadership in some of the most compelling and inspiring landscapes in the Rocky Mountains. Students will spend the entire semester off-campus. One of their first experiences will be backpacking 35 miles into the Universitys Taylor Wilderness Research Station, one of the nations most remote research stations, where they will spend the first half of the semester. After six weeks, we will fly out of Taylor to the McCall Field Campus on Payette Lake to continue the integrated learning experience.
The Semester in the Wild course will give students an opportunity to: conduct undergraduate research alongside scientists, study rivers and salmon ecosystems in an environment far removed from human impact, read and write about great literature of the American West, learn why we have our current wilderness management programs and how such programs evolve. Visit www.uidaho.edu/cnr/wild/ to learn more and apply.
