InternationalAt.org
Title
International Appalachian Trail
Contact
- InternationalAppalachianTrail
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- Freeport ME
- United States 04032
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- +1.20786562
Description
The IAT is the idea of Dick Anderson, a fisheries biologist and former commissioner of Maine's Department of Conservation. Dick had a dream, much like Benton MacKaye's dream of the Appalachian Trail. Dick dreamed of connecting the bioregion of the Northern Forest, on both sides of the US-Canada border.
"I visualized a trail that would connect two countries and cultures, link a state and two provinces and traverse two major watersheds--the Gulf of Maine and the Gulf of St. Lawrence."
This would be a project that would foster international cooperation and promote understanding and protection of our common landscape. Recently the trail plan was extended to take the IAT all the way to where the Appalachians plunge into the sea at the end of the Gaspé Peninsula, Cap Gaspé.
