By Devan Pensinger It was surprisingly sunny as we drove into town of Tortel to begin our first big excursion of the semester. Tortel would be our home base as we prepared for backpacking and conducting fieldwork in the temperate…
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By Devan Pensinger It was surprisingly sunny as we drove into town of Tortel to begin our first big excursion of the semester. Tortel would be our home base as we prepared for backpacking and conducting fieldwork in the temperate…
Stepping off the plane in Balamecda it was obvious I wasn’t in Maine anymore. The hot wind swept across the arid valley and the rays of sun soaked into my vitamin D deprived skin. In the distance I could see…
By Eric Van Dam (University of New Hampshire) Sunsets are a funny thing in Patagonia. As the leaves on the ñirre trees unfurl from their aromatic bundles and newly-born guanacos take their first shaky steps over mats of neneo…
By Sylvia Kinosian (University of Vermont) Being up high is somewhere I’ve always loved to be. As a kid I climbed trees, rocks, scampered around on my roof, pressed my nose to airplane windows. I fell in love with…
November 20, 2014 By Isabelle Lazarus (University of Vermont) Three weeks ago, at a casual visit to the internet café, our instructors were approached by the “upper ups” of CONAF (i.e. the bosses of Orlando and Felidor, the guardasparques…