Tag: Nonfiction
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Also Noteworthy: Summer 2018
1. No-Pay Stays In its third year, the Peter Roderick Trail Award Scholarship was given to six AMC members, all first-time trail-work volunteers on AMC’s Maine Woods property. Established in 2016 by the Maine Chapter in honor of a longtime executive committee member, the scholarships cover the cost of food and lodging on volunteer trail-work…
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Mountain Watch, AMC’s Citizen Science Initiative, Goes High-Tech With iNaturalist
The next time you visit the White Mountain National Forest, you may notice more phones than usual in the woods. No, cell service in the White Mountains didn’t magically improve. Any possible influx of photo-snapping and trail-texting is likely due to the iNaturalist app, newly integrated into AMC’s Mountain Watch program. Read more: https://www.outdoors.org/articles/inaturalist-amc-mountain-watch-citizen-science-climate-change 8 – temporarily…
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8 Hikes on American Indian Footpaths
Have you ever wondered who used a trail before you—or maybe how a trail first came to be? These eight routes were initially traveled by American Indians who created the paths for travel, trade, and spiritual connection long before European settlement. Pick one or several for the chance to walk in the footsteps of this…
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4,000-Footers on Instagram: How the N.H. 48 Stack Up
Poor Mount Monroe. Despite its stature as the fifth-highest mountain in New Hampshire, it doesn’t crack Instagram’s top 10 of the most-hashtagged 4,000-footers in the state. To conduct our pseudo-scientific popularity poll, we used the same convention for all 48 peaks: “mt” or “mtn” before or after the name, as listed in AMC’s White Mountain…
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How To Keep a Nature Journal
David Haskell compares nature observations to breathing. “With the lungs, you have to both inhale and exhale in order to be healthy. The same is true for the mind,” the Sewanee professor of biology and environmental studies instructs his college students—including me. “We need a process of opening our senses and then of closing….We need…
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Wear, Tear, Repeat: Used Gear Repair On the Rise
Picture your most beloved piece of gear, the loyal companion that has accompanied you on your greatest adventures. Now imagine that, no matter the wear and tear, your pack or bivy doesn’t have to end up in a landfill. Instead, it could be stitched up and repaired, accompanying you or someone else on future exploits. That…
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The Raccoon Night, and Other Misadventures
My piece written for Dr. David Haskell‘s Creative Writing: Narrative Nonfiction class at Sewanee. We called the raccoon Betsy. The interns named her earlier that summer, after they came face to face with her outside their tent one night. They heard her scratching around in the forest and found their food strewn across the campsite…
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Conservation for the People
An Ethical and Political Examination of the Purpose of America’s National Parks My senior capstone for the Environmental Arts and Humanities major at Sewanee. Introduction From its founding in 1916 to present day, the United States National Park Service (NPS) has experienced numerous policy changes, legal fights, threats, and a range of debates over its…
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