Two people sitting on a dock by a lake and gazing at a mountain.

“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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1911 Weeks Act Cartoon Of Uncle Sam And The Old Man Of The Mountain

March 1, 1911

Advocacy by AMC and other groups results in passage of Weeks Act (36 Stat. 961), authorizing the creation of Eastern National Forests

1895 Footbridge Over Snyder Brook With A Path Sign Beyond Randolph, N.h. 1918 Ls38.48

February 1895

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

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