Climate Change On The Maine Appalachian Trail

[TJ aka Teej]

5/24, tonight, at the Portland Public Library - free and open to the public! Come on out and learn about how Appalachian Trail organizations factor climate change into their work. #MaineAT
Simon Rucker, Executive Director of the Maine Appalachian Trail Land Trust will present tonight at the Portland Public Library from 5:30 to 7:00 on Appalachian Trail conservation in Maine and how AT groups are factoring in climate change into their work.

[Francis Sawyer]

Al Gore call your office.

[Don H]

Ron Tipton, ATC Pres. sent an email out a few months ago complaining about the US pulling out of the Paris Climate Agreement. In that email he claimed pulling out creates

"threats to hikers and the Trail itself — including increases in reports of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses, the spread of invasive plants and insects, changes in the timing of the seasons, severe weather events leading to treadway erosion, and more frequent and severe blowdown events — are all occurring right now and are predicted to worsen as a result of carbon emissions."

http://www.appalachiantrail.org/home/community/news/2017/06/02/in-response-to-president-trump%27s-decision-to-withdraw-from-the-paris-climate-agreement

I would expect the MATC to discuss the same.