Mark your calendars for Wednesday, November 18, 2020 (6:30 PM) as the date of the Chapter’s 2020 Annual Meeting (via Zoom; the link will be posted asap). The slate of candidates for election to the Executive Committee is here.
The Chapter is pleased to announce Sarah L. Rasmusson has been elected as Chair of the Chapter’s newly created Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. Write to Sarah at dei@amc-ny.org if you want to help move the chapter forward with its diversity initiatives. Register Here to join the weekly DEI Working Group meetings; every Wednesday at 6:00 PM
Why We Are AMC
Tremendous outcome for the environment, and AMC leads the way. Again.
The Great American Outdoors Act, a bipartisan piece of legislation was signed by President Trump on Tuesday, August 4, and will provide as much as $1.9 billion annually to address the massive backlog of maintenance projects on federal public lands—including national parks, forests, and refuges—and will permanently fund a federal program that has supported outdoor conservation in nearly every county in the country since Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. Read more here.
More than 1,000 people have seen Derick Lugo’s presentation: the Unlikely Thru-Hiker
Here’s the recorded video