The Old Conservationist

Essays by Russell E. Vance, III PhD

Monday, August 24, 2015

A Glimpse at the Complicated World of Wilderness Management

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Over the last few weeks I have been doing the Arthur Carhart National Wilderness Training Center courses on wilderness management. Throug...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

The Plants of Glacier

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Those of you who have seen my pictures of meadows filled with wildflowers at Glacier will not be surprised to learn that Glacier National P...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Glacier's famous Mountain Goats

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 Woops! A Marmot scampers under legs and across feet to the large outcropping of rock on its way to a sunny spot where it can soak up the ...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Glacier National Park Volunteer Associates

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We met Joan and Mark Wierzba on the Hidden lake Trail in July 2014. They were wearing the volunteer's uniform and as we got talking we ...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Mountains, trails and tails

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The mind is an unbelievable organ. Scientists haven't really figured out how it works yet, despite many hypotheses. This morning that ab...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Fratrem nostrum urso. Vivat!

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By their own account the two experienced back-country rangers did just about everything wrong. They were hiking a remote trail well into the...
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Russell E Vance, III PhD
Columbia Falls, MT, United States
Russell E. Vance, III, PhD. is a retired psychotherapist who, after retiring, has followed his passions and dreams. He currently lives a nomadic RVer’s life spending over 90% of his life off-the-grid far out into the Sonoran Desert or in the dense cedar and hemlock forest of Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana where he and Pamela served as volunteer campground hosts for 8 years. An unabashed tree-hugger and environmentalist, Russ’ post-retirement advocation became wildlife management, living among and helping keep deer, mountain goats, big horn sheep, bears and other creatures safe. Living in their 21ft RoadTrek RV, Russ enjoys spending his evenings writing stories. He has published two novels, four novella, and runs a Facebook page.
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