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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AMC’s First Youth Climate Summit
On April 10th, more than 120 high school students from across northern Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine gathered at the Highland Center for the Appalachian Mountain Club’s inaugural Youth Climate Summit. The event included a...
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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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When you walk in a Northeast forest, it can feel like the woods go on forever. But we all know they don’t. Hike far enough, and you’ll cross a road or run into shops and…
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On June 10th, 2022, AMC staff met virtually with a group of middle and high school students from the cities of Lawrence and Lowell, Mass. While AMC staff often talk with young people, this time…
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