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Corridor Monitoring: Off the Beaten Path to Protect the Trail

September 1, 2016 by Alicia DiCocco Leave a Comment

Volunteer trainings to be hosted in October

Moose 3 LT N of Taft C. Mollie Flanigan 081116Do you have an interest in land conservation? Are you fascinated by natural history, wildlife, and orienteering?  Do you want to help protect the Long Trail or Appalachian Trail? If so, you may want to become a volunteer corridor monitor!

More than forty GMC volunteer monitors regularly walk the protected trail corridor to ensure that conservation restrictions are being upheld, to help maintain boundaries, and to gather valuable natural and recreational resource information.  Off the trail, corridor monitors are rewarded by vistas, flora, and fauna too remote of the average hiker to see. Moss covered spruce groves where humans haven’t trampled for years.  Babbling streams of crystal clear water.  Groves of unfurling wildflowers and the occasional wildlife sighting you can brag about for years.

GMC is hosting two Corridor Monitor Trainings this fall to give you the skills needed to volunteer.

We will cover map and compass use, conservation easements, surveys, boundaries, and natural history. This training is free and open to the public.

October 1st (Rain Date October 2nd)
West Harford, VT
9am to 2pm

October 15th (Rain Date October 16th)
Johnson, VT
9am to 2pm

For more information and to register, email Mollie Flanigan, Land Stewardship Coordinator, or call (802) 241-8217.

Filed Under: From the Field, Stewardship, Volunteers

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Ask a Science Teacher: Why is the Long Trail so Muddy?

March 27, 2023

Vermont — and especially the Long Trail — is known for being sort of muddy. We even have an official fifth season, "mud season." Why is Vermont (sometimes known as "Vermud") and the Long Trail so muddy? Why is the Long Trail so muddy? To answer, we asked Joe Bahr, newly minted author of the … Read more

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The Green Mountain Club is the founder and maintainer of the Long Trail - the oldest long distance hiking trail in America. Established in 1910 to build this trail stretching the length of Vermont, the club now also maintains the Appalachian Trail in Vermont and trails in the Northeast Kingdom in its mission to "make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people." Read more...

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