This fall, Isaac (GMC Field Assistant), Lorne (GMC Volunteer & Education Coordinator), and I (GMC Field Supervisor) got to take the ferry over to New York to spend the weekend at the Waterman Fund’s 11th Annual Northeast Alpine Stewardship Gathering in Lake Placid. This heftily-named conference may not be one you’ve heard of, but if […]
Climate Change: Trail Management Strategies
This article previously appeared in the Spring 2019 Long Trail News. I don’t know how much Long Trail pioneers thought about climate or bad storms when designing and building the trail. But after more than a century of trail maintenance and management, the Green Mountain Club is definitely concerned about our changing climate and its effects […]
New Volunteers Monitor the Jay Tracts
This article previously appeared in the Winter 2017 Long Trail News. Green Mountain Club volunteer corridor monitors help to protect the Long Trail, the Appalachian Trail, and the diverse wildlife habitat of the Green Mountains, all while exploring remote areas in Vermont. Along the Long Trail, volunteers adopt properties that the club has protected, either […]
Vermont’s Wildlife in a Changing Climate
This article was written by Tom Rogers, Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. Tom will be speaking on this topic at this weekend’s Taylor Series talk. Join GMC in Enosburg Falls this Saturday, February 9th, to learn more. In many ways, moose are the bellwether species for climate change in Vermont. The moose’s enormous bodies covered […]
Wilderness Stewardship on the Long Trail
This article was written by Lorne Currier, GMC Outreach & Field Coordinator. The Long Trail is lovingly described as a footpath in the wilderness but, technically speaking, just 45 miles of the trail are Wilderness. The difference between wilderness and Wilderness, with a capital ‘W,’ came along on September 3, 1964, when the 88th Congress of […]
