How does the Maine Woods Initiative fit within AMC’s mission?
W.G.: We’ve taken over management of an area that has been an industrial forest, with mountains and the Appalachian Trail going right through it, but with our long-range land management goals, this will be a much wilder place than it is now. As we remove some of the roads, as we do restorative forestry, as we put certain areas aside for their ecological values, people will look back at this place as being a much wilder place than it is today. One of key things about this project is that it’s in some ways a culmination of all the things we have been doing over 15 to 20 years in the Northern Forest. We’ve built up a strong volunteer and professional base that allows us to take on a project of this magnitude. I think it’s the energy of all those constituents, the volunteers and the staff, that will really make this project work. We’ve seen it in volunteers from the Maine chapter and other chapters who are doing volunteer trail work. We’ve seen it with the dedication of our campaign commit
