If you’ve ever stood on a mountain summit, you know the feeling: the wind on your face, the ache in your legs, and the way the land rolls away into the blue distance as far as you can see. Today,…
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“We Cannot Take Enjoying Nature for Granted”: A Conversation with Ramon Cruz
AMC board member Ramón Cruz is the former President of the Sierra Club and has over 25 years of experience intersecting the fields of sustainability, environmental policy, urban planning, energy and climate change. He has worked in...
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From shifting policies to the impacts of climate change, it’s easy to feel weighed down by the challenges facing the outdoors today. But if 150 years of raising our voices for the outdoors has taught…
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2025 has unleashed many obstacles to conservation efforts. We have weathered everything from drastic funding cuts to large-scale environmental policy rollbacks. But the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and our community of nearly 90,000 members have…
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At the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), we pride ourselves on consistently standing at the front lines of conservation. From the forests of Maine to the trails of Virginia, our climate action strategy extends beyond policy….
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As extreme heat waves, intense rainfall, and wildfire smoke sweep across AMC’s region, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a dangerous step backward. Its latest proposal, issued on Tuesday, July 29, seeks to…
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This summer, members of AMC’s research team are out in the field: catching clouds on the top of Mt. Washington, counting pollinators in the alpine zone, and measuring dissolved organic carbon in mountain lakes. Why…
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