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Birds, Burrs, and Bert:

By Lucca Sterrer of University of Vermont             As we embarked on our first backpacking trip, a mix of emotions were running through our heads.  Our apprehension, anxiety, and fear were all trumped by excitement. This first trip marks the…

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Checking on the Chacabuco

By Lena Hanschka of Colby College As you drive along the X-83 road through the Chacabuco Valley in Patagonia National Park, you pass many species characteristic of the Patagonian Steppe. There are Calafate bushes, with their tasty blue berries protected…

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The Tale of Two Attitudes, a Living Lesson of Narrative

By Grady Jakobsberg of University of Vermont Patagonia Student Program – Spring 2020 Editor’s Note: RRCS – Patagonia students begin their Humans and the Environment class by reading William Cronon’s influential article “A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative”….

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Cows, College Students, and Conservation

By Gracie Little of Carleton College Patagonia Student Program – Fall 2019 Semester As with many encounters with Mother Nature, our time in Entrada Mayer was a lesson in humility. Those five days of slightly haphazard research, rain, and farm…