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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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EPA’s Climate Backpedaling Threatens the Future of the Outdoors

As extreme heat waves, intense rainfall, and wildfire smoke sweep across AMC’s region, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a dangerous step backward. Its latest proposal, issued on Tuesday, July 29, seeks to…
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How Long-Term Monitoring Protects the Outdoors—and Gets You Outside 

This summer, members of AMC’s research team are out in the field: catching clouds on the top of Mt. Washington, counting pollinators in the alpine zone, and measuring dissolved organic carbon in mountain lakes. Why…
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Hiker in the Presidential Range, White Mountain National Forest, NH. Photo by Corey David Photography.

Defending the Outdoors: How AMC is Taking Action–And How...

By now you’ve heard the news: Federal funding frozen or retracted. Project stoppages, staff reductions, and legislative rollbacks. These actions threaten public lands, scientific research, recreation, and the long-term health of the environment in our region.  …
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Snow over a lake at sunset in MWI.

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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Drone View Of Bear Brook In Maine's Northern Forest. Barnard Plantation.

The 30×30 Campaign to Save Nature 

Have you heard the term 30×30? As time ticks on toward the benchmark year of 2030, here’s what you need to know about the international movement to mitigate climate change and biodiversity decline, and AMC’s…
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Paula Champagne

Mitigating Climate Anxiety

We need to talk about a major source of anxiety for many in our community: climate change. Climate change impacts our health, from the spread of diseases to our physical health to our food sources—not…
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Corey Mcmullen

Trail Trials: How AMC Trail Crews Adjust for New...

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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Sept. 1, 2021. Maine Woods, Maine-- Photo by Jamie Malcolm Brown.

Vote for the Outdoors

This November 8, your vote matters. We hope you’ll take the time to exercise your right to have your voice heard. And before you cast your vote, we encourage you to research your candidates’ positions…
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