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Inland Woods + Trail was founded in July 2011 by a group of interested citizens who could see there were opportunities to engage existing land owners and land managers and to activate new spaces that would implement a community held vision for the area to connect communities through trails.In our home base of Bethel, this meant piecing together a tapestry of land connecting Mt Abram in Greenwood, to the village and schools of Bethel and then to Sunday River in Newry. This was also an effort to improve the year round economy through outdoor recreation. We’re historically good at skiing. Our population quadruples to 10k every weekend from November to April. Starting under the name Mahoosuc Pathways, the organization hired its first Executive Director, Landon Fake, who led the organization in the creation of the town of Bethel owned Bingham Forest, inventory of existing local trails, articulating strategies and ideals that are still true to the organization today:
In the short term, those ideals manifested in the organization rising up to advocate for the creation of the Bingham Forest, in collaborating to create the Oxford County Conservation Corps—a paid youth trail crew that reshaped over a dozen sites in the county—and by repairing and taking care of the Woodsum Spur on the Stewart Preserve, owned by the Mahoosuc Land Trust. Those early measures are still part of the organization’s work today.
Our successes to date are the result of some fabulous partnerships over the years:
Schools
State Groups
National Partners
International Partners
Nonprofits
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