A seasonal caretaker is placed at Liberty Springs Tentsite to manage use, creating our Campsite and Caretaker program. Caretakers inform hikers on how to minimize their impact on campsites in the White Mountains
“Mommy’s Going to March Us Up the Mountain”: Jean Camuso on Her Family’s Lifelong Love of the AMC Huts
Jean Camuso’s connection to AMC’s High Mountain Huts started over 40 years ago, when she took her two young sons on a hike to Lonesome Lake. From early adventures (including a memorable mid-trail “strike” that was swiftly resolved with peanut...
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Joe Dodge, AMC Huts Manager, becomes the Weather Bureau’s official observer at Pinkham Notch, where weather data has been collected ever since. Two years later, Dodge helps found the Mount Washington Observatory
Advocacy by AMC and other groups results in passage of Weeks Act (36 Stat. 961), authorizing the creation of Eastern National Forests
AMC makes its first conservation land purchase by acquiring thirty-six acres along Snyder Brook in Randolph, New Hampshire, to protect a strip of old-growth forest from imminent logging operations
The Massachusetts Legislature enlarges AMC’s charter to enable it to hold mountain and forest lands and historic sites
The Metropolitan Park Commission is formed in Boston with the help of landscape architect Charles Eliot. AMC throws its support behind the Commission to protect land in the Blue Hills and Middlesex Fells
AMC lobbies the Massachusetts Legislature for the rights of municipalities to set aside lands for public use. One result is Chapter 255, “An Act Authorizing Towns and Cities to Provide for the Preservation and Reproduction…
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