Kristina Schenck's Interactive Media

The university is working to increase academic involvement in and public awareness of Wild Basin Wilderness Preserve, a nature preserve managed by St. Edward’s University in west Austin. Part of the initiative included renovations to infrastructure and changing the name of the building at the preserve to Wild Basin Creative Research Center.

Over the course of the last 30 years, snowmobiles have become a popular sight–and sound–in Yellowstone National Park, perhaps the last place one would expect to see crowds like the one on the picture below. The legal and political battle surrounding the issue of banning snowmobile use in Yellowstone National Park is a prime example […]

If you’re in Texas, the idea of public land may seem like a foreign concept. Ninety eight percent of all land in Texas is private property. However, this is not the norm, and public lands and the American West are inseparable, as much of the land in western states is owned by the federal government. […]