Description
Maine native Myron H. Avery recruited friends from Washington, DC; Maine forest and warden service staff; guides and sporting camp operators; and the Civilian Conservation Corps to increase the Appalachian Trail through Maine, regardless of questions of whether it might be conceivable to carve a trail in the course of the state’s wildlands. Volunteers of Maine’s Appalachian Trail Club, created by Avery in 1935, have since maintained the path, built shelters, relocated more than half of the original swiftly constructed route, and taken at the task of managing the path’s protection corridor. Along Maine’s Appalachian Trail illustrates the wealthy history of the path’s rugged mountains and vast forests, which have provided a livelihood for generations of workers and communities.