March 5, 2024 If you’ve been following along with the wacky winter weather this year, you may have stumbled across the term “El Niño.” You know it plays a role in the weather. But what…
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Adventure, Love, and the Land That Shapes Us: Stories from the AMC Community
It’s time to pass the mic. Earlier this year, we put out a call for AMC stories in honor of our 150th anniversary. Stories of epic adventures, sweet connections, high mountain summits, and memories from AMC huts and lodges started coming...
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February 2, 2024 We know winter is changing. We can see it in the change in snow, the warm rains, and the above-freezing temperatures. Much of the conversation on changing winters has focused on New…
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Whether it’s holidays, birthdays, or other special events, gathering and spending time with loved ones is always a joyous occasion. But it can often feel like our celebrations lend themselves to waste: disposable plates and…
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A river streaming with silvery scales. Tens of thousands of determined fish, swimming upstream and leaping over barriers to spawn. Water teeming with life. This sight was once common from the Gulf of Maine to…
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Deep snows and freezing temperatures are two things that scream “winter” in the Northeast and New England. It’s not unusual to be scraping ice off cars for six months out of the year, and some…
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It’s a warm, sunny late September day. The leaves on the trees are golden yellow, with splashes of red and orange. Further down a gravel road, Steve Tatko, AMC’s Vice President of Conservation Research and…
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Summertime means big days on the trail and refreshing ones on the water. But at AMC, it wasn’t just people who were soaking up the sun. Solar panels have been popping up at AMC properties…
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I’m standing on a 2,000-yard stretch of churned-up earth, right off the road. Sunlight filters down through the trees with just-starting-to-change color leaves, and busily working people in hard hats surround me, as well as…
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How’d you spend your summer? For AMC’s research interns, it was a busy season. Working alongside professional scientists, interns took on big projects essential to AMC’s conservation mission, from collecting data deep in the backcountry…
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