ANN ARBOR, MI — An out-of-state University of Michigan facility is undergoing crucial renovation.

The University of Michigan Camp Davis Rocky Mountain Field Station, a research and teaching facility about 30 miles south of Jackson, Wyoming, is to have a brand new dining hall and classroom building.

They are scheduled to be completed by spring 2027, but the camp director is hopeful construction will be done by November 2026.

Camp classes this summer will take place in Dillon, Montana. Students will stay in the dormitories at the University of Montana Western.

“It’s close enough to Yellowstone that we can still do that, but also do some locally developed projects in the geology of Southern Montana,” Julia Cole, professor and chair of the earth and environmental sciences department at UM,

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