On October 18, more than a dozen WOC members gathered for a day-long field trip, hiking up 11,400-foot Union Peak to get a bird's eye view of an ancient wildlife migration corridor. Participants, who ranged from 10 years old to 70 years young, came from across the state to participate in the outing, part of WOC's Restoring Wild Patterns program, which works to protect healthy, free-ranging wildlife in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The high country we hiked through is staggering in its beauty and gentle in its topography. Indians made seasonal treks across these lands, white traders later moved through the area and big game still migrate across the landscape and its watersheds—still intact, functioning, and flowing.

When we reached the Continental Divide, we gazed at Triple Divide Peak (11,642 feet), where the headwaters of three major river systems flow: the Wind River east to the Mississippi watershed, the Green River south to the Colorado, and the Gros Ventre River west to the Columbia. From the top of Union Peak, we could see Union Pass, through which pronghorn migrate in the spring and fall, the Upper Green River Valley where they winter and, in the distance, their summer range in the Tetons.

As participant Ane McKinnon said in summing up the day, "Thank you! I now understand so much more of what I see on Union Pass than I ever realized."