Just about everything is connected
Guest post by Clemson student Joseph Romano After a late arrival on the second day of our stay in Montana due to a delayed flight and missed connection, I was immediately hurled onto the massive Montana landscape. I’ve never seen anything like the open expanse of the sky and the stretching of the plains in my life, so I spent most of the first day constantly stunned. Not only was there stretching expanse, mountains were almost always on the horizon, and the hills and ruts sculpted the land in many places. The uniqueness sculpted by glaciers and a slowly drained ocean is majestic and the soils with equally unique mineral deposits prepared the way for the vegetation we know now as native to the region. The region has been drastically changed over the past couple centuries. Tilling of the soil, introduction of invasive species, extirpation of wildlife, division of habitat by harmful barbed wire fencing and roads have all had impacts. At least dozens of species of flora and fauna need good...
