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2024 Wilderness Policy and Packing

Four weeks, two classes, five college credits, five days in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on horseback.

Four weeks, two classes, five college credits, five days in the Bob Marshall Wilderness on horseback. Two Wilderness Policy and packing classes at the University of Montana offer an intensive four week experience, learning about pressing issues and hands-on Wilderness skills...

Horses, mules and packing

I am facilitating various community classes on horses, mules and packing. Visit Backcountry Horsemen of Missoula for more details.

“Smoke Elser is a legend not only in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana but throughout the Rocky Mountain West. . . . Hush of the Land will be read for years by those who want a saddle-high view of a unique and adventurous life well lived.”

—C. J. Box, New York Times best-selling author of Storm Watch

Based on hundreds of hours of interviews, HUSH OF THE LAND tells the captivating story of Smoke Elser’s early days as a packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and Bitterroot Mountains. Share the joys and thrills of summer rides, harrowing grizzly bear encounters, fishing in clear mountain streams, and many nights around a campfire within some of the West’s last wild lands. In this lively narrative, Elser recounts how his testimony for the Wilderness Act, and the fight to preserve and expand Montana’s wilderness lands, influenced his career as an outfitter and educator and gave him a voice at the center of Montana’s conservation movement. Read more.

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