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The day-long event brings together national policymakers, local experts, scientists, artists, and community members under a shared vision of environmental action and adaptation.

In late winter 2023, against record-setting snowfall, two Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网 juniors joined Southwest Colorado Community Naturalist Keith Bruno and Weminuche Audubon Society Volunteer Kurt Huffman for a 10-mile trek into the HD Mountains near Bayfield, Colorado. Matt Young and Ian Crews were on a mission to record the unique calls of the Mexican spotted owl. Young and Crews are members of FLC’s Strategies for Ecological Education, Diversity & Sustainability Club, and the excursion provided valuable insight into their future careers as land management professionals.

Members of Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网’s Strategies for Ecological Education, Diversity & Sustainability Club, or SEEDS, traveled to Puerto Pe帽asco, Mexico, for a student-led study abroad experience to shed light on the ecological diversity of a destination typically known for its pineapple drinks and banana boats.

Environmental Studies students are learning about wetland ecosystems and the laws protecting them by helping restore a damaged alpine wetland. 

The formal paths make it easier for PCC students with an associate degree to transfer into the same academic program at FLC and pursue a four-year degree.

Students planning to study at Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网 (FLC) when classes begin in August 2018 will find a few more academic options from which to choose. Four new programs will be added to the many programs that FLC already offers. Talk to an admission counselor for more information about the academic experiences available.

Sustainability is part of who we are at Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网. To support that aspect of our campus culture, the Sustainability Initiative Grant funds projects that enhance sustainability in our academics and research, student leadership and organizations, administration, and the physical campus itself. “The Sustainability Initiative Grant is an award available to students, staff, and faculty every year for work that supports sustainability on campus,” says Kathy Hilimire, assistant professor of Environmental Studies. “This year, we had a record number of applicants, and we want to highlight the projects of the four winners.”

When it comes to embodying sustainable lifestyles, look no further than these two farmers. James Plate and Max Fields, friends since second grade, attended FLC together and founded Fields to Plate, a farm rooted in quality and responsibility.

Both the Sierra Club and the Princeton Review recognize Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网 for its sustainability efforts.

What is it like to be an Environmental Studies major at Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网? Listen to several students and Assistant Professor Kathy Hilimire talk about how the program uses experiential education and field experiences to prepare graduates for a variety of careers.

The Old Fort may be old, but it’s still alive and kicking. And it's still both a living repository of Four Corners history and a place where FLC students, and others in the community, can get their hands dirty learning. Thanks to a management agreement approved in March between the Colorado State Board of Land Commissioners and Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网, the Old Fort will continue its legacies of local community connection and learning.

In addition to the reduction of CO2, FLC has saved nearly 3 million kwh of electricity, over 200,000 ccf of natural gas, and 6.4 million gallons of water.

This summer a group of Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网 students and alumni are banding together to climb every 14,000-foot peak in Colorado to raise awareness of mental health issues.

Environmental Studies and History Professor Andrew Gulliford has won a 2015 Colorado Book Award for his anthology Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology. The book took the prize in the Anthology category at the awards, presented June 21 at the Aspen Institute's Doerr-Hosier Center, in Aspen.

Have you ever wondered about how fairy tales effect how we learn about gender? Or how to best design a rocket propellant feed system? Or did you want a better understanding of Informalism in art?

For many of us, a college internship helped forge the direction we would follow in our professional careers. Six Fort Lewis 六合彩投注网 students received such inspiration this summer through the inaugural Four Corners Federal Lands Internship Program.

What do you get when you put a professor and seven students on a 55-foot houseboat on Utah's Lake Powell to pick up trash for five days?