By Nico Shaffer (Westminster College)   Grizzly bears have a long troubled past with humans in the lower 48. A stretch of country grizzlies once spanned in its entirety, they have now been maimed and relocated from all but a…

By Sawyer Hill (Westminster College)   “Twenty minutes until lunch,” comes the call as I grab a fishing rod and follow Nico upriver with promises to be back for lunch with a fish in hand. Clambering down the rocky embankment…

By Joe Valceschini (Westminster College)   When reading through Round River’s website I was drawn to the Taku program for multiple reasons, the main one being the nine day backpacking trip along a traditional Tlingit trail to the Nakina River….

By Drew Higgins (Carleton College)   On our second day camped on the Nakina River, I caught a Dolly Varden. Salvelinus malma. Or it could have been a Bull Trout, Salvelinus confluentus. The two species are difficult to distinguish. The…

July 9, 2014 By Kassandra Arts (Northland College)   We have climbed mountains before, but now we are climbing them for science. As one of the few Midwestern flatlanders in the program, I saw this as an interesting change. This…