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Announcing the 2025 AMC Photo Contest Winners!

From epic adventures and wild mountain views to city bike trails and blazing campfires under starry skies, for over 20 years the AMC Photo Contest has celebrated how our community experiences and protects the outdoors....
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Conservation Wins in a Challenging Landscape

2025 has unleashed many obstacles to conservation efforts. We have weathered everything from drastic funding cuts to large-scale environmental policy rollbacks.   But the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) and our community of nearly 90,000 members have…
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Put Your Superpowers to Use: An Interview with Ayana...

“What if we act as if we love the future?”  — Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson   This January, AMC launched the All Out Action Plan: our five-year road map for protecting critical landscapes, fostering a…
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Snow as a Protective Blanket: Saving Snow in the...

Winters in our region from Maine to Virginia have changed. We’ve lost three weeks of winter weather and snow cover in the Northeast over the last 100 years. Massachusetts has lost 27 days of snow…
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AMC’s Top Conservation Successes of 2024

At AMC we spent the year protecting land, securing funding for conservation, and of course, getting outside with our community. We’ve climbed mountains and gone on paddles, advocated with our local representatives, and managed forests…
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Conservation Advocacy Toolkit

November 12, 2024 After last Tuesday’s election, a change of U.S. leadership is underway that will influence environmental policy for years to come. Just as we have done with every administration, the Appalachian Mountain Club…
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A Conversation with Dr. Jordon Tourville, AMC Terrestrial Ecologist

Talking with the AMC Research team in the summer is no small feat. Summer is field season, meaning the team is outside all day, every day, collecting water samples, downloading data from remote mountain sensors,…
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7 Outdoor Activities for Mud Season

Ah, mud season: it must be spring on the East Coast. All the snow has melted away, the ground is wet and soggy, but the fresh plant growth has yet to emerge. It’s a difficult…
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Introducing the iNaturalist Bingo Card

At the Appalachian Mountain Club, we’re proud to put the “NGO” (non-governmental organization, that is) in “Bingo!”  Each spring our team of researchers count on the contributions of community scientists like you to better understand…
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Weather Whiplash: El Niño, Climate Change, and Snow Variability

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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