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Fiscal year projects on STEAM education, industrial air pollution, climate change solutions, environmental activism, community gardens, and healing space for incarcerated youth.
In addition to a cash prize and public recognition, the winners received coaching, training, and peer support designed to provide them with the skills to advance their initiatives.
More details about the winners and videos of their stories are available online at broweryouthawards.org.
Brower Youth Awards winners (clockwise from top left): Danielle Boyer, Alexandra Collins, Haana Edenshaw, Isabella Wallmow, Chander Payne, Diego Arreola Fernández.
For nearly four decades, Earth Island Journal has been publishing articles that offer a unique, wide-angle perspective, which strives to make the connections between the environment and human rights and social justice issues.
Over the course of more than issues, the Journal has broken ground on covering critical environmental topics and received a number of media awards for excellence in journalism.
In fiscal year issues, including a cover story about a grassroots movement against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada calling attention to green tech?s reliance on extractive industries and practices; a dispatch about an anti-science movement in Puglia, Italy, that has stymied efforts to combat a disease devastating the region?s ancient olive trees; and an award-winning investigation into how a loophole in California's cap-and-trade program is allowing a Native Alaskan timber company to sell carbon offsets for forests that were likely never intended for logging.
Online, the Journal highlighted the work of activists fighting fossil fuel companies and demanding bold climate action; reported on the ongoing persecution of apex predators in the U.S.; and dedicated a large share of its coverage to issues at the intersection of race, gender, poverty, and environment.
The magazine?s work has been recognized by awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the San Francisco Press Club, and the John Burroughs Association.
Earth Island Advocates uses the law to fight for justice for the planet?s beautiful and varied ecosystems and inhabitants.
With the combined knowledge and expertise of our grassroots project network and the pro bono resources of law firms, legal clinics, and nonprofit organizations, Earth Island Advocates is achieving tangible results for the environment.
In fiscal year filed lawsuits to prevent unlawful logging on federal land and to stop corporate greenwashing, and obtained settlements that protect wildlife.
Thank you for all you do as volunteers, staff, donors, and community members.
Despite the unpredictable challenges we faced in to your collective support, we can reflect on our accomplishments with pride.
At the heart of AMC’s mission, conservation and recreation go hand in hand, underpinned by the understanding of the natural resources we cherish.
Through our research, programming, land management, trail work, advocacy, and more, we protect and speak up for the places we love.
We also are focused on the importance of creating a more inclusive outdoor space— with your encouragement, this perspective informs every part of AMC so that the future of the outdoors is an outdoors for everyone.
The highlights shared on the following pages tell only a part of the story.
Behind the facts and figures are members like you: passionate outdoors people who generously give time, talent, and financial support to protect the special places we love and make sure that they are there for future generations.
Thank you for making all that AMC does possible.
While navigating a second year in a pandemic, AMC saw an exponential growth in the number of people heading outdoors, and with that, a demand for more resources to guide you along the way.
Thanks to the dedication and careful planning from our frontline, who faced continuous adaptations to the evolving COVID-AMC provided thousands of activities in 2021 to bring new and returning adventurers outdoors.
Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership AMC continued to develop its reimagined Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership (COLL), dedicated to providing training and knowledge to pursue your own outdoor adventures through the values of safety, conservation, and equitable access to the outdoors.
In instructors offered 3,745 online and in-person events from Maine to Virginia, which engaged an estimated 37,450 participants.
COLL also trained educators, volunteer leaders, and Wilderness First Aid participants.
its offerings to provide outdoor training to leaders who work with youth organizations.
With a goal of creating equitable access to the outdoors, AMC’s Educators Outdoors partners with organizations and schools that are working with lower income and BIPOC communities in the greater Boston and New York regions.
The work of Educators Outdoors was essential in as we saw disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color in our region.
Access to greenspace and fresh air remains critical to improving both mental and physical health.
In partnership with trained youth development professionals from a diverse set of organizations, AMC supported transformative outdoor experiences in both city parks and wilderness areas to engage young people with nature and each other.
I S T E D getting outdoors 167 educators through virtual and in-person workshops 124 youth trips with free gear loans and discounted lodging AMC continues to provide the basics of training, free gear, and reduced pricing to AMC lodging to remove barriers for getting outdoors.
That’s why AMC is dedicated to building our digital presence and providing you with everything you need for your next adventure.
In for Outdoors.org, including an easy-to-use online registration tool for our destinations.
In continue to enhance our digital presence by building an online database to help people better connect with AMC programs, events, and activities.
A H E A D Patience and resiliency fueled AMC frontline staff at our destinations to create memorable experiences for guests throughout the year.
Each and every individual that visited our locations interacted with frontline staff.
Grand Reopenings After a year in isolation, the returning sounds of hikers and croos shuffling around bunk rooms and swapping stories of their adventures in the mountains was welcomed at AMC’s high mountain huts.
AMC safely reopened these facilities, with a partial opening in June before returning to full capacity in July.
New York Expansions The more than Park in New York can now benefit from AMC’s expertise.
AMC took over management of the Reeves Meadow Visitor Center and Palisades Information Center from the Palisades Interstate Parkway Commission to provide essential information about recreation opportunities throughout the greater New York Region.
Each location houses a store, with snacks, gifts, and last-minute gear, plus water, restrooms, and picnic tables.
On weekends, volunteers provide programs on the area’s natural history and what to look for when on the trails.
Harriman Sebago Outdoor Center With just over $to develop plans for our next outdoor center in Harriman State Park.
The vision for Harriman Sebago Outdoor Center (Sebago) is to provide a broad range of recreational opportunities for new and experienced outdoor adventurers of all ages and backgrounds.
Sitting on the shores of Lake Sebago and easily accessible via Seven Lakes Drive, Sebago will be designed for short overnight and longer vacation stays.
Activities at this location include boating, sunbathing, fishing, swimming, hiking, biking, and more.
To support our fundraising efforts, three generous donors have put up a $1 million challenge.
Gifts of all sizes qualify and will help unlock these funds and bring us closer to opening Harriman Sebago Outdoor Center.
Through this special opportunity, you can double the impact of your gift today.
Visit outdoors.org/sebago to learn more about this project and make a gift.
Lynda Cohen imagined a series where people could come together in Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, to enjoy one of her life long passions: music.
The inaugural season of the Lynda Cohen Performing Arts Series launched with live performances in August and September.
The series will expand in performances scheduled for July and August.
$funding to Maine State Parks for capital projects The ‘Protect the View’ campaign in greater Philadelphia The rise in outdoor recreation paired with the ongoing crisis of climate change highlights the importance of AMC’s conservation advocacy work across the region.
It’s not just about providing access to the outdoors but lending your voice to educate others about how their behaviors impact the lands and trails we enjoy.
Through your support, AMC can help protect these vital resources for generations to come.
Pleasant River Headwaters Forest Over the past four years, AMC has been working to raise $Pleasant River Headwaters Forest in Maine.
With more than $expects to be in position to complete the purchase of this 26,740-acre parcel in the heart of Maine’s famed 100Mile Wilderness region in 2022.
This acquisition provides critical watershed protection for the Pleasant River, enlarges our responsibly-managed forest operations, and will bring AMC’s total holding of protected land in Maine to more than 100,000 acres.
We look forward to celebrating the acquisition later this year.
NECEC Suspended The New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) power transmission corridor, which AMC has long opposed on the basis of forest fragmentation, is on the ropes following several developments in 2021.
On November Maine voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot question to reject the project, which AMC endorsed.
Following the referendum, the Department of Environmental Protection suspended the permit for the project, and Hydro Quebec suspended construction on the Canadian side of the border pending the outcome of several lawsuits.
In AMC’s Maine Woods International Dark Sky Park status.
Consistent with our conservation mission, protecting dark skies enhances human and ecological health.
And due to its exceptional dark skies, the newly established Park is one of the best places for stargazing in the region.
Protect As a leader in the national Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Coalition, AMC has advocated for full funding of the LWCF for decades and recently joined the push for committing to the goal of protecting percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030.
The federal list of proposed LWCF-funded projects includes several places of importance to AMC, including many that would provide equitable access to the outdoors in areas closer to cities.
With your support, AMC is advocating for this equitable and full funding of LWCF projects to the communities connected to those conservation efforts.
A H E A D Trails do more than take you from one place to another.
They limit impact, redirect water, and protect fragile ecosystems.
The White Mountains saw more than visitors last year and millions of others finding refuge on trails close to home and throughout our region.
That means more stress on many of the trails AMC maintains—requiring more work than ever.
AMC professional and volunteer trail crews help maintain vital trails throughout the region.
This map shows many of the highlights from AMC’s regular trail work conducted year round.
I N T E N A N C EProtect 4 2 3 5 6 8 9 7 1.
Schooner Head Path, Acadia National Park, ME 2.
Imp Shelter, Carter Moriah Trail, White Mountain National Forest, NH: The entire shelter was disassembled to replace the rotting floor and sills, plus a new roof was installed.
Webster Cliff Trail, Crawford Notch State Park, NH 4.
Croo Bridge Replacement, Cardigan, NH: This bridge is dedicated to Andrew Norkin (our late Director of Trails and Recreation Management), and many AMC friends, coworkers, volunteers, and partners helped make this project a success in his memory.
Bay Circuit Trail and Greenway, Massachusetts: Working with the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge AMC installed an accessible picnic table, bike rack, and enhanced boardwalk at the Northern Terminus of the trail.
MA: After nearly five years of advocacy, AMC built a mouldering privy at the Hatchery Brook Connecticut River Paddler’s Trail Campsite in Montague, MA, made possible through funding by the AMC Waters and Rivers Fund. 8.
While COVID conditions still impacted the scope of programming at the Camp Dodge Trails Training Center in New Hampshire, AMC hosted more than staff and ran a variety of trail skills trainings and workshops in 2021.
In August, AMC welcomed Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to showcase Camp Dodge as a regional trails training facility, celebrate the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, and thank her for her leadership in passage of the bill.
AMC is hosting Massachusetts and New Hampshire, who will serve 900hour terms (half term) over a 24-week period.
Ten of these members will be based in New Hampshire, while the other five will be based in Western Massachusetts.
AMC AmeriCorps Members will develop their leadership and technical trail skills while contributing to significant trail maintenance efforts in these two states.
A H E A D AMC’s research scientists provide essential data to help guide regional leaders in making sound environmental decisions.
Understanding how climate change is affecting our region keeps AMC’s team of scientists busy as they study the air, waters, forests, and fields throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Their findings provide science-supported action items, allowing AMC to lead by example.
Warming Winters on Mount Washington AMC’s most recent study of the Pinkham Notch and Mount Washington area indicates that warming winter temperatures lead to less snow—since AMC began recording snowpack in the depth declined by 50 percent, and total snowfall declined 25 percent.
Over the longer horizon, projections through climate throughout this century, but reducing greenhouse gas emissions can help to slow the rate and amount of warming and snow loss.
Dragonfly Mercury Project The Merrimack River and its tributaries have a legacy of pollution dating back to early industrialization in Lowell and Lawrence, MA.
Community Science Engaged conservationists throughout the region have come together for community science, adding more than projects.
Community observations help us understand how climate change impacts mountain plants and their reproductive phenology.
Current projects focus on important regional landscapes such as Northeast alpine areas, the Appalachian Trail, and Harriman State Park.
To learn more and add your observations, visit outdoors.org/ communityscience.
AMC has long been conscious of and taken responsibility for the impacts created by our use and enjoyment of the outdoors.
To that end, AMC has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than 2050.
To meet these ambitious climate targets, AMC is developing a Net Zero Strategic Plan—a roadmap that will set forth our strategic vision for the production, consumption, and conservation of energy at AMC facilities and from our operations.

Fiscal year projects on STEAM education, industrial air pollution, climate change solutions, environmental activism, community gardens, and healing space for incarcerated youth.

In addition to a cash prize and public recognition, the winners received coaching, training, and peer support designed to provide them with the skills to advance their initiatives.

More details about the winners and videos of their stories are available online at broweryouthawards.org.

Brower Youth Awards winners (clockwise from top left): Danielle Boyer, Alexandra Collins, Haana Edenshaw, Isabella Wallmow, Chander Payne, Diego Arreola Fernández.

For nearly four decades, Earth Island Journal has been publishing articles that offer a unique, wide-angle perspective, which strives to make the connections between the environment and human rights and social justice issues.

Over the course of more than issues, the Journal has broken ground on covering critical environmental topics and received a number of media awards for excellence in journalism.

In fiscal year issues, including a cover story about a grassroots movement against a proposed lithium mine in Nevada calling attention to green tech?s reliance on extractive industries and practices; a dispatch about an anti-science movement in Puglia, Italy, that has stymied efforts to combat a disease devastating the region?s ancient olive trees; and an award-winning investigation into how a loophole in California's cap-and-trade program is allowing a Native Alaskan timber company to sell carbon offsets for forests that were likely never intended for logging.

Online, the Journal highlighted the work of activists fighting fossil fuel companies and demanding bold climate action; reported on the ongoing persecution of apex predators in the U.S.; and dedicated a large share of its coverage to issues at the intersection of race, gender, poverty, and environment.

The magazine?s work has been recognized by awards from the Society of Environmental Journalists, the San Francisco Press Club, and the John Burroughs Association.

Earth Island Advocates uses the law to fight for justice for the planet?s beautiful and varied ecosystems and inhabitants.

With the combined knowledge and expertise of our grassroots project network and the pro bono resources of law firms, legal clinics, and nonprofit organizations, Earth Island Advocates is achieving tangible results for the environment.

In fiscal year filed lawsuits to prevent unlawful logging on federal land and to stop corporate greenwashing, and obtained settlements that protect wildlife.

Thank you for all you do as volunteers, staff, donors, and community members.

Despite the unpredictable challenges we faced in to your collective support, we can reflect on our accomplishments with pride.

At the heart of AMC’s mission, conservation and recreation go hand in hand, underpinned by the understanding of the natural resources we cherish.

Through our research, programming, land management, trail work, advocacy, and more, we protect and speak up for the places we love.

We also are focused on the importance of creating a more inclusive outdoor space— with your encouragement, this perspective informs every part of AMC so that the future of the outdoors is an outdoors for everyone.

The highlights shared on the following pages tell only a part of the story.

Behind the facts and figures are members like you: passionate outdoors people who generously give time, talent, and financial support to protect the special places we love and make sure that they are there for future generations.

Thank you for making all that AMC does possible.

While navigating a second year in a pandemic, AMC saw an exponential growth in the number of people heading outdoors, and with that, a demand for more resources to guide you along the way.

Thanks to the dedication and careful planning from our frontline, who faced continuous adaptations to the evolving COVID-AMC provided thousands of activities in 2021 to bring new and returning adventurers outdoors.

Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership AMC continued to develop its reimagined Center for Outdoor Learning and Leadership (COLL), dedicated to providing training and knowledge to pursue your own outdoor adventures through the values of safety, conservation, and equitable access to the outdoors.

In instructors offered 3,745 online and in-person events from Maine to Virginia, which engaged an estimated 37,450 participants.

COLL also trained educators, volunteer leaders, and Wilderness First Aid participants.

its offerings to provide outdoor training to leaders who work with youth organizations.

With a goal of creating equitable access to the outdoors, AMC’s Educators Outdoors partners with organizations and schools that are working with lower income and BIPOC communities in the greater Boston and New York regions.

The work of Educators Outdoors was essential in as we saw disproportionate impacts of the pandemic on communities of color in our region.

Access to greenspace and fresh air remains critical to improving both mental and physical health.

In partnership with trained youth development professionals from a diverse set of organizations, AMC supported transformative outdoor experiences in both city parks and wilderness areas to engage young people with nature and each other.

I S T E D getting outdoors 167 educators through virtual and in-person workshops 124 youth trips with free gear loans and discounted lodging AMC continues to provide the basics of training, free gear, and reduced pricing to AMC lodging to remove barriers for getting outdoors.

That’s why AMC is dedicated to building our digital presence and providing you with everything you need for your next adventure.

In for Outdoors.org, including an easy-to-use online registration tool for our destinations.

In continue to enhance our digital presence by building an online database to help people better connect with AMC programs, events, and activities.

A H E A D Patience and resiliency fueled AMC frontline staff at our destinations to create memorable experiences for guests throughout the year.

Each and every individual that visited our locations interacted with frontline staff.

Grand Reopenings After a year in isolation, the returning sounds of hikers and croos shuffling around bunk rooms and swapping stories of their adventures in the mountains was welcomed at AMC’s high mountain huts.

AMC safely reopened these facilities, with a partial opening in June before returning to full capacity in July.

New York Expansions The more than Park in New York can now benefit from AMC’s expertise.

AMC took over management of the Reeves Meadow Visitor Center and Palisades Information Center from the Palisades Interstate Parkway Commission to provide essential information about recreation opportunities throughout the greater New York Region.

Each location houses a store, with snacks, gifts, and last-minute gear, plus water, restrooms, and picnic tables.

On weekends, volunteers provide programs on the area’s natural history and what to look for when on the trails.

Harriman Sebago Outdoor Center With just over $to develop plans for our next outdoor center in Harriman State Park.

The vision for Harriman Sebago Outdoor Center (Sebago) is to provide a broad range of recreational opportunities for new and experienced outdoor adventurers of all ages and backgrounds.

Sitting on the shores of Lake Sebago and easily accessible via Seven Lakes Drive, Sebago will be designed for short overnight and longer vacation stays.

Activities at this location include boating, sunbathing, fishing, swimming, hiking, biking, and more.

To support our fundraising efforts, three generous donors have put up a $1 million challenge.

Gifts of all sizes qualify and will help unlock these funds and bring us closer to opening Harriman Sebago Outdoor Center.

Through this special opportunity, you can double the impact of your gift today.

Visit outdoors.org/sebago to learn more about this project and make a gift.

Lynda Cohen imagined a series where people could come together in Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, to enjoy one of her life long passions: music.

The inaugural season of the Lynda Cohen Performing Arts Series launched with live performances in August and September.

The series will expand in performances scheduled for July and August.

$funding to Maine State Parks for capital projects The ‘Protect the View’ campaign in greater Philadelphia The rise in outdoor recreation paired with the ongoing crisis of climate change highlights the importance of AMC’s conservation advocacy work across the region.

It’s not just about providing access to the outdoors but lending your voice to educate others about how their behaviors impact the lands and trails we enjoy.

Through your support, AMC can help protect these vital resources for generations to come.

Pleasant River Headwaters Forest Over the past four years, AMC has been working to raise $Pleasant River Headwaters Forest in Maine.

With more than $expects to be in position to complete the purchase of this 26,740-acre parcel in the heart of Maine’s famed 100Mile Wilderness region in 2022.

This acquisition provides critical watershed protection for the Pleasant River, enlarges our responsibly-managed forest operations, and will bring AMC’s total holding of protected land in Maine to more than 100,000 acres.

We look forward to celebrating the acquisition later this year.

NECEC Suspended The New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) power transmission corridor, which AMC has long opposed on the basis of forest fragmentation, is on the ropes following several developments in 2021.

On November Maine voters overwhelmingly supported a ballot question to reject the project, which AMC endorsed.

Following the referendum, the Department of Environmental Protection suspended the permit for the project, and Hydro Quebec suspended construction on the Canadian side of the border pending the outcome of several lawsuits.

In AMC’s Maine Woods International Dark Sky Park status.

Consistent with our conservation mission, protecting dark skies enhances human and ecological health.

And due to its exceptional dark skies, the newly established Park is one of the best places for stargazing in the region.

Protect As a leader in the national Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Coalition, AMC has advocated for full funding of the LWCF for decades and recently joined the push for committing to the goal of protecting percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030.

The federal list of proposed LWCF-funded projects includes several places of importance to AMC, including many that would provide equitable access to the outdoors in areas closer to cities.

With your support, AMC is advocating for this equitable and full funding of LWCF projects to the communities connected to those conservation efforts.

A H E A D Trails do more than take you from one place to another.

They limit impact, redirect water, and protect fragile ecosystems.

The White Mountains saw more than visitors last year and millions of others finding refuge on trails close to home and throughout our region.

That means more stress on many of the trails AMC maintains—requiring more work than ever.

AMC professional and volunteer trail crews help maintain vital trails throughout the region.

This map shows many of the highlights from AMC’s regular trail work conducted year round.

I N T E N A N C EProtect 4 2 3 5 6 8 9 7 1.

Schooner Head Path, Acadia National Park, ME 2.

Imp Shelter, Carter Moriah Trail, White Mountain National Forest, NH: The entire shelter was disassembled to replace the rotting floor and sills, plus a new roof was installed.

Webster Cliff Trail, Crawford Notch State Park, NH 4.

Croo Bridge Replacement, Cardigan, NH: This bridge is dedicated to Andrew Norkin (our late Director of Trails and Recreation Management), and many AMC friends, coworkers, volunteers, and partners helped make this project a success in his memory.

Bay Circuit Trail and Greenway, Massachusetts: Working with the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge AMC installed an accessible picnic table, bike rack, and enhanced boardwalk at the Northern Terminus of the trail.

MA: After nearly five years of advocacy, AMC built a mouldering privy at the Hatchery Brook Connecticut River Paddler’s Trail Campsite in Montague, MA, made possible through funding by the AMC Waters and Rivers Fund. 8.

While COVID conditions still impacted the scope of programming at the Camp Dodge Trails Training Center in New Hampshire, AMC hosted more than staff and ran a variety of trail skills trainings and workshops in 2021.

In August, AMC welcomed Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) to showcase Camp Dodge as a regional trails training facility, celebrate the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act, and thank her for her leadership in passage of the bill.

AMC is hosting Massachusetts and New Hampshire, who will serve 900hour terms (half term) over a 24-week period.

Ten of these members will be based in New Hampshire, while the other five will be based in Western Massachusetts.

AMC AmeriCorps Members will develop their leadership and technical trail skills while contributing to significant trail maintenance efforts in these two states.

A H E A D AMC’s research scientists provide essential data to help guide regional leaders in making sound environmental decisions.

Understanding how climate change is affecting our region keeps AMC’s team of scientists busy as they study the air, waters, forests, and fields throughout the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.

Their findings provide science-supported action items, allowing AMC to lead by example.

Warming Winters on Mount Washington AMC’s most recent study of the Pinkham Notch and Mount Washington area indicates that warming winter temperatures lead to less snow—since AMC began recording snowpack in the depth declined by 50 percent, and total snowfall declined 25 percent.

Over the longer horizon, projections through climate throughout this century, but reducing greenhouse gas emissions can help to slow the rate and amount of warming and snow loss.

Dragonfly Mercury Project The Merrimack River and its tributaries have a legacy of pollution dating back to early industrialization in Lowell and Lawrence, MA.

Community Science Engaged conservationists throughout the region have come together for community science, adding more than projects.

Community observations help us understand how climate change impacts mountain plants and their reproductive phenology.

Current projects focus on important regional landscapes such as Northeast alpine areas, the Appalachian Trail, and Harriman State Park.

To learn more and add your observations, visit outdoors.org/ communityscience.

AMC has long been conscious of and taken responsibility for the impacts created by our use and enjoyment of the outdoors.

To that end, AMC has committed to achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions no later than 2050.

To meet these ambitious climate targets, AMC is developing a Net Zero Strategic Plan—a roadmap that will set forth our strategic vision for the production, consumption, and conservation of energy at AMC facilities and from our operations.