Commentary: Learning from public lands. Learning from the public.

Fourteen Westminster College students, two faculty members and a program assistant just returned from a semester-long road trip around the American West. Over 10,000 miles, we traced some of the meanings, conflicts and cooperation embedded in landscapes. The Bears Ears National Monument represents a crucial chapter in that story and involves a movement towards including more voices in that conversation.For the 82 days of our “Expedition,” our public lands served as classroom, textboo