Voices from the Trail

Saranac Lake Demolition

Written by Nick Olson-NFCT 14-week Summer Stewardship Intern When you think of The Northern Forest Canoe Trail and the stewardship interns, smoke and destruction is the last thing you think of. Rather than constructing carefully planned structures and improving the…

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Attean Pond

Written by Nick Olson-NFCT 14 Week Stewardship Intern Attean Pond in Maine is by far the longest trip we have taken for a Waterway Work Trip but what a wonderful way to end the season. We camped about a mile…

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Connecticut Waterway Work Trip

Written by Acadia Tripp- NFCT 6 week Stewardship Intern from U-Maine Machias   Our previous waterway work trip for the Northern Forest Canoe Trail definitely improved the campsite on the water’s edge of Ray Lovell’s property. The campsite is situated on…

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Permanent Staircase at Permanent Rapids

Written by Nick Olson – NFCT 14 week Stewardship Intern from SUNY Cortland The Waterway Work Trip and Intern season kicked off with the most challenging project of the summer. The first week at Franklin Falls would act as training…

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Sun and water on the Allagash!

By John Little, Missisquoi River Basin Association Hi All! I just got back last night from a great trip on the allagash ith my daughter. Yes its a long way from the Missisquoi River, but I used to guide for…

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Day Trip in the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge

By Kate Williams Well, I wish I was writing to say I’d just been paddling the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge, but no such luck.   We’ve been daydreaming about it though, while composing the Missisquoi National Wildlife Refuge Day Trip itinerary.  …

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Here comes the sun!

By Michelle Davis I walk like a Mainer, talk like a Mainer, eat like a Mainer, paddle like a Mainer. I’ve spent the past month hiking some of the Appalachian Trail on weekends, eating red hot dogs and whoopie pies…

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Row, row, row your boat

By Michelle Davis Hey again, I’m back from my third and final week on the Moose River.  Its funny to see the changes in the river over just three short weeks.  My first trip we had very high water and…

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From the Field: Highgate Falls Dam Portage WWT

  In the days leading up to our last Waterway Work Trip at the Highgate Falls Dam Portage, I couldn’t have imagined what this crew could do in one short weekend.   The Roving Crew of interns (Acadia, Kim and…

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Lake Champlain on July 14

By Kate Williams What a day:  July 14, 1609, Samuel de Champlain paddled by canoe into the lake that now bears his name.  July 14, 2009, I was priveleged to spend the day on this very same lake with NFCT…

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