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Click here to watch a video created by a 2012 Wintersession student!
"This
course taught me all about wilderness, the Mission Mountains,
and so many different things. Everyday was different, I
learned so much."
~student
Winter Wilderness Field Studies is taught by Kari Gunderson. Kari lives in the Swan Valley where she has worked extensively as a wilderness ranger in the Mission Mountains.
Winter Wilderness Field Studies
PTRM 418
Offered by the Montana Wilderness School in cooperation with the Wilderness Institute
Wintersession 2013
January 7-18, 2013 (weekend off)
Previous Syllabus (2012)
This ten-day intensive program explores natural resource management and outdoor leadership in the Swan Valley and the Mission Mountain Wilderness. The course focuses on wilderness management using the Mission Mountain Wilderness Area as a classroom and case study. We study community-based stewardship, winter ecology, fundamentals of snow and avalanche science and mountain meteorology, outdoor leadership, group decision-making, risk assessment, and Mission Mountain Wilderness history. Activities include classroom and field lectures, discussion, visits with local Swan Valley residents and tribal members, recreation use monitoring and data collection, basic winter wilderness skills and emergency care, a ski or snowshoe day trip and backcountry winter camping in the Mission Mountain Wilderness.
The course will take place in the Swan Valley January 7-18, 2013, with the weekend off. Students will be housed at the
Condon Work Center/Swan Valley Ecosystem Center.
To register: Pick up an override form from Devi Zbziebko, Clapp Building, CHCB 412.
For more information please contact:
Kari Gunderson, kari.gunderson@umontana.edu,
or the Wilderness Institute, wi@cfc.umt.edu,
406.243-5361, www.cfc.umt.edu/wi.
Course costs: UM tuition/fees plus $150 for housing. If registered for 12 or more Spring credits, there is no additional tuition cost for this course.
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