Carolyn Ziegra hits the gas. There’s the nip of cold through my jacket, my hair blowing behind me. The smell of pine, the whoosh of snowmobile runners hitting powder. And we’re off. It’s 15 degrees…
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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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Karen Thurston Barsanti grew up in the White Mountains with AMC’s White Mountain Huts as her playground. “My dad was an AMC volunteer, and I was an AMC kid. He instilled in me at a…
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Why would a nonprofit dedicated to protecting mountains, forests, and waters be in the business of cutting down trees? That’s a fair question. For AMC, forest conservation is a no-brainer. Forests are the lungs of…
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A couple of years ago, I started keeping something that I call a “joy calendar.” Life was moving a little too fast, and I’d said yes to too many things, which were piling up and…
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Winter is here, and that means snow days! Inspired by our popular fall foliage tracker, we’re providing snow depth reports from AMC locations in Maine during the winter lodging season, and New Hampshire. (A…
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On December 19, 2024, the U.S. Senate delivered a big win for outdoor recreation, unanimously passing the EXPLORE Act – a bipartisan legislative package aimed at improving and expanding access to the outdoors across the…
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The first snow has fallen. Temperatures are dropping. For many people, this time of year comes with a low-key sense of dread. You bundle yourself into thick layers, dig out the ice scraper and shovel,…
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Holiday gifts shouldn’t cost an arm, a leg, or the earth. This season, choose mindful gifts that foster a connection to the outdoors with minimal impact and maximum joy. It’s so much more than a…
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Did you see the northern lights this year? How about the once-in-80,000 year comet that’s gracing the skies until the end of October? At AMC, we believe that the dark skies are a natural resource…
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