By Janessa Chaplin

Research shows that changes in climate create warmer, drier conditions, leading to longer and more active fire seasons. This is something my family has noticed over the years. My mom loves hiking and has been noticing more and more decimated areas of forest that show little signs of coming back. I notice it because I can’t go play tennis outside without feeling a sting in my throat.

By Constanza

My daughter loves cross country, but last fall she skipped half her practices because of poor air quality. The teenager is still adamant we don’t discuss climate at the dinner table. I agree for the sake of good digestion.

By Jill Logan

Then one day out of the blue
came an insect that was brand new.
It was huge and brown and seemed to say
"I think I'll just stand here and pray".

By Nico Lorenzen

On that September morning, as I laced up my worn leather boots in preparation of another day pulling a crosscut saw the distillation of such wilderness spilled itself beneath the boughs. The stillness following the dynamism of bugling elk before sunrise, a restful quiet layered in a way we’ve adapted to know as right in its totality.

By Kalle Fox

With respect to the ecological history of the valley prior to white American settlement, I can’t help but root (pun not intended) for a legacy where non-natives and natives work together to adapt and thrive in the face of anthropocentric challenges.

By Lucas Moody

But that was when the rains were, when the ice on the Rattlesnake Creek would break and there was a sound like thunder or cannons as the torrent of released water and ice rolled boulders down stream towards the river that runs through Missoula, Montana.