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- Prepping for the AT 2,184 miles to be ‘in the moment’
- AT celebrates 75 years
- Appalachian Trail turns 75
- National forest balds in jeopardy due to funding cuts
- Macon, home to the AT, familiar with missing hikers searches
- Welcome AT hikers: Franklin gears up for stream of thru hikers with annual Trail Days bash
- Hikers’ cars hit by thieves: Trailhead safety becomes focus after recent “car clout” convictions
- Festivals celebrate onset of AT hiking season
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will hand out mini-grants for projects in the region that benefit the long-distance hiking trail.
Grants can include trail work, conservation projects and trail promotion and education. Past projects have included:
• Efforts by the Nantahala Hiking Club to help the town of Franklin become an official “Trail Town.”
• Construction of a trail on the grounds of Cartoogechaye Elementary School in Franklin.
• Construction of a trail on the grounds of Summit Charter School in Cashiers.
• Trail maintenance and improvements to trail shelters.
• Bear cables at backcountry trail shelters.
• Controlling invasive, exotic plant species.
• Eforts to keep the bald on Roan Mountain from growing up, including a roving goat herd.
The Appalachian Trail Conservancy will give out $25,000 in grants, not to exceed $5,000 per grant. The grants are funded through proceeds from the specialty AT license plates, which raised $116,000 last year for the AT Conservancy.
Applications are due by March 5. Go to www.appalachiantrail.org/ncgrant.
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Here are the true stories of some young people, all of them still under the age of 35. For the sake of anonymity, we will call the young people Lisa and Mike, Kevin and Laura, Patrick and Emily, and Michael (unmarried).
