2013 SPRING-SUMMER Newsletter

Currents and Communities

A n historic 740-mile water trail through New York, Vermont, Québec, New Hampshire, and Maine

What’s Inside and to Great Food From the Executive Director...... 2 What do you get when you combine and locally grown food: Happy Selected for your Thank You 2012 Donors...... 3 campfire cuisine friends and family? Check. A great extended or ordered from a Work Projects Along the Trail...... 4 date with your sweetheart? Ooh la la. The menu, local foods Hot On the Trail...... 5 most memorable trips ever? Definitely! provide a healthy treat after a day Trail Connections ...... 6 To experience this healthy combo on of paddling. the Northern Forest Canoe Trail, we have Supporter News ...... 7 created two itineraries: Watery Scenes Happening Now...... 8 & Edible Greens focused in the Lake Champlain Islands, and Fresh Food & Fresh Northern Forest Canoe Trail Air in Richford focused along the Missisquoi Mission: To connect people to the Trail’s around our Vermont Trail Town. natural environment, human heritage, and Both itineraries are available online at our contemporary communities by stewarding, website’s Plan a Trip. promoting, and providing access to canoe The Lake Champlain Islands have 200 and kayak experiences along this route. miles of shoreline to . Watery Scenes Our Approach: In the context of & Edible Greens shares trips including partnering with local communities, opportunities for paddling to farmers’ honoring Native American culture, and markets, staying overnight at an island conserving the human and natural heritage orchard, and catching a weekly free concert of the region, we will serve travelers and at a lakeside vineyard. The suggested trips benefit neighboring communities by: also identify how you can add in the islands’ ➤ Encouraging canoe/kayak travel renowned cycling and unique fossil hunting and recreation at a 480-million year old coral reef. Along the 80-mile Missisquoi River, Lake Champlain weather can change quickly; be sure to ➤ Stimulating economic development always check the forecast before paddling. by attracting a wide range of visitors Fresh Food & Fresh Air in Richford offers to the region’s communities paddling options combined with biking on ➤ Improving local access to regional Free Trip to the a rail trail that follows the river bank, and waterways—, and lakes Allagash Wilderness hiking in the Green Mountains with vistas of the broad river valley. The local food ➤ Enabling travelers to experience the In 2013, all dues paying members will options range from farm stand berry pies, Northern Forest’s full range of diverse automatically be entered into a raffle to café maple custards, to farm tours where landscapes, from working cities to you can savor everything from sauerkraut to towns to farms, forests and mountains for a 7-day paddling trip with Allagash Canoe Trips. See inside for details! bright floral arrangements. ➤ Supporting community-based NFCT anticipates that these itiner- services and local arts, education and aries will attract new visitors to northern environmental programs that educate Vermont. Both include lots of detail and and inspire residents and visitors alike description to help you figure out the logis- ➤ Enhancing quality of life by tics of where to paddle, where to stay and creating opportunities for people how to have an active and tasty experience. to reconnect with place We are grateful to both the Vermont Community Foundation’s “Innovations and Collaborations Program” for providing a grant to develop and promote these continued on page 3 ...

NFCT2013 SSNL-PRESS.indd 1 4/10/13 2:30 PM board of directors Warren Cook, President Co-Founder, Maine Network Partners Kingfield, Maine From the Executive Director Thank You 2012 Donors Alan Stearns, Vice President Executive Director, Royal River Conservation Trust Dear Members, Supporters, and Friends, Hallowell, Maine Jed Kalkstein, Treasurer Fayston, Vermont A blustery squall is sending little snowflakes flying in all Lisa Dyslin, Secretary directions outside my office window. Just past this flurry, Avid Paddler & Former Educator the patchwork of snow and mud that is the fabric of a North Wilmington, New York Country spring spreads across fields and yards. The skis aren’t Rob Center, NFCT Co-Founder Partner, Outdoorsense quite put away yet…but the aren’t quite out yet. It’s an Waitsfield, Vermont in-between time that can leave you full of impatience one Kay Henry, NFCT Co-Founder Former President, Mad River Canoe Co. moment and possibility the next. Waitsfield, Vermont NFCT is humming with possibility, regardless of the weather outside. As you’ll Alan Bennett see in the pages of this newsletter, we are already ramping up for a busy season, Board Member, Raquette Lake Property Owner’s Association & Retired Urologist both on and off the Trail. We’re excited about the range of work, from aquatic West Orange, New Jersey invasive species education to youth programming, and from Film Fests to stone Russell Collett Gorham, Maine staircase construction. This range reflects the expansiveness and possibility of our Steve Gladstone Trail itself. COO, Innovations As we grow and stretch, we are more grateful than ever to the many partners, Hinesburg, Vermont Bill Hill volunteers, members, donors, and friends without whom we would never have CFO, Ibex Clothing gotten this far or been able to keep dreaming big. Thank you. Here’s to warm Essex Junction, Vermont breezes for the season ahead. Don Hudson President Emeritus, Chewonki Foundation Warmly, Arrowsic, Maine Bo Norris Co-Founder, Maine Network Partners Cape Elizabeth, Maine Will Plumley Kate Williams, Executive Director Marketing Strategist, VONT Win Windham, Maine John Schweizer a Kayak! Board Chairman & CFO, Rowing Innovations Enter your name to win a new Chebeague Burlington, Vermont Ned Van Woert kayak made by Lincoln Canoe & Kayak. Marketing Consultant, Winner chooses color! Country Home Products Shelburne, Vermont Attend an NFCT Ross Whaley Senior Advisor, Adirondack film festival to Landowners Association enter our raffle. Tupper Lake, New York Emeritus Ron Canter, NFCT Route Researcher Cartographer, Federal Aviation Admin...... North Potomac, Maryland Welcome to New Board Members Staff Kate Williams, Executive Director Russ Collett Don Hudson (Arrowsic, ME) retired in Kevin Mack, Director of Partnerships & Marketing (Gorham, ME) is the head 2010 as president of the Chewonki Foundation Walter Opuszynski, Trail Director of the Division of Oral & after 28 years of service. Roger Poor, Youth Program Director Maxillofacial Surgery at He remains active on Sandy Tarburton, Membership & Communications Director Maine Medical Center. numerous boards, including He has had his own the founding board of Northern Forest Canoe Trail P.O. Box 565, Waitsfield, VT 05673 practice in Portland, ME the Allagash Wilderness Phone: 802.496.2285 since 1984. Russ has a Waterway Foundation. Don Fax: 802.329.2239 camp on Moosehead Lake, and he through received L.L. Bean’s Outdoor [email protected] paddled the NFCT with his son in 2011. Hero Award in 2010. www.NorthernForestCanoeTrail.org 2

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ur sincerest thanks go to our $100–$249 Charles Horbert & Rebecca Purdom Eastern Mountain Sports Northern Door Inn donors who gave generously Roxanne Bailey & Cynthia Gianfrancesco Thomas Quarles, Jr. Eureka Outdoor Leader Trainers Stephen Shand Howard Horowitz & James & Jean Quigley Exped of America in support of our mission and Byron Baribeau Alisse Waterston Pierre Quirin FoxWorx Rangeley Region Lake O Phyllis Jalbert programs. We are fortunate and grateful Robert Bissell Peter & Constance Rafle Infant Jesus of Prague Cruises & for your support! David & Carol Briggs Dick Jarvis Barry Rains Johnson Outdoors Raquette River Outfitters Martha Buckley & McKay Jenkins Jerry Ross Kokatat Chris Tracy St. Regis Canoe Outfitters Individuals Will Plumley A. Shawn Kalkstein Lynn W. Saaby Lasso Security Cables Scott Camlin The Jersey Paddler $25,000+ Fern Stearns Peter A. Kaurup Brigid Schulte & Mitchell Paddles Dave Caplan The Last Resort Cabins Warren & Brammie Cook Ross Whaley Brian & Jennifer Kettledon Thomas Bowman NorthWest Canoe Jon M. Carlson & Campground $10,000–$24,999 Brad & Sue Wyman Ed Kfoury David & Elvera Shappirio Northwest River Supplies Mark A. Chag Elizabeth R. Kiebala Tickner’s Moose River Stuart A. Fraser $250–$499 Christopher Shaw & Old Town & Canoe Trips Scott & Laurie Clark David & Kristina Kirkham Sue Kavanagh $5000–$10,000 Peter Bergh & Janet Prince Outdoor Retailer White Wolf Inn Maura Conron Pete Colhoun Bill & Thomas Blonkowski Terry Large Greg Shute Paddling.net Bob & Linda Cooley G rants Anthony Fagan* George Coy Timothy Lewis Larry Soroka & Patagonia Betty Eipper & Dick Mains Cerise Oberman American Rivers Jeffrey B. Sellon Katina Daanen Vainisi David & Judith Lloyd REI Katharine A. Eneguess James Lyons Mark Stancher Davis Conservation $1,000–$4,999 Earl DeCarli SEA-LECT Designs Foundation Michael Euell Bruce D. MacDonald Curtis Stiles Ed Amidon & Louise Elizabeth E. Ehrenfeld Smartwool Elmina B. Sewall Rick Fabrizio John Hoyt Stookey McCarren Joel Fleck * Duane E. Mailman VBT Bicycling & Foundation Leslie Swanson Alan & Susan Bennett Larry & Anne Forcier Dorothy & Jay Federman Chérie Malakoff Walking Vacations Hugh & Elizabeth Brian Castler & Stephen A. Garanin Dennis Fortin Marguerite E. Malakoff Louise Nunan Taylor Vermont Canoe Montgomery Charitable Katherine Duffendack Steve & Mary Gorman Susan Freimuth Stacy & Robert Malecki Grant Tormey We-no-nah Canoe Fund of the Maine Community Foundation Russell J. Collett Bill Hill Mark Fromm Lawrence & Janice Malone John J. Unser Werner Paddles, Inc. Nick & Lisa Dyslin Barbara Walling Lake Champlain Hyde J. Hitchcock Chris & Gail Gabriels Anthony & Rachel Manzo Business Partners Kay Henry & Rob Center Tim Galvin Michael P. Martin Charles F. West Basin Program Edward & Karen Hixson C lass V: $1000+ Doug Luke James Garland & William B. Mather Nathan V. E. Woodruff Maine Community Jed & Catherine Kalkstein L.L. Bean Foundation Bo Norris Carol Andreae Kevin A. McCabe Diana Hartwick Young Charles Kolb & Class IV: $500–$999 Maine Outdoor John Schweizer & Beth Hartwick Bea Garvan John & Karen McKenna Dorothy & Ralph Young Outdoor Sports Center Heritage Fund Jennifer Lucas Martha Leggat & Peter Georg Mike Messink Jonathan & Sheila Young Class III: $250–$499 Neil & Louise Tillotson Alan Stearns & Austin Steve Barr Joe Geronimo Marion L. Meyer Eugene & Eleanor Zartman Fund of the New Brown Adirondack Exposure Grace & Mart Malakoff James & Patricia Giblin John E. Meyn In Honor Hampshire Charitable Ned & Kay Van Woert Mara Malakoff * Susan Gilbert Marlboro College Foundation James Miller & Beverly & Dudley Coates Outdoor Program Ira J. Wagner Gregg & Caroline Marston Chris & Patty Gill Mollie Noyes in honor of Peter & Northern Border $500–$999 Peggy Gunness; Kate, Mountainman Outdoor Regional Commission Diana McCargo & Stuart & Corrieann Graves Eileen Mitchell Supply Company Beverly & Dudley Coates Peter Swift Rob, Annika & Theron The Betterment Fund Conrad L. Griffin Jeff Morris Placid Waters Kayaking Camille Frances Coates Samuel L. Molinari Williams; Larson, Liana, The EnTrust Fund Elma Grimes James Phillip Morrison, II Jamie & Maria Gunness; Tom & Sally Daigneault R. A. Oram Member: $100–$249 USDA Rural Business Larson Gunness & Donald E. Mueller Per & Barb Gunness Adirondack Lakes & George Ellmore John & Rebecca Richardson Liana Cassar Enterprise Grant Werner Mueller Elma Grimes in honor Trails Outfitters Program–NH & VT Steve Gladstone Cornelis Rijnbrand Stefan Gutermuth of Ian Smith Tom Mulyca Attean Lake Lodge US Department of Justice Peter & Margaret Gunness Larry Rocke Stuart Harris Jeri Opuszynski Matching Gifts Canoe & Co. Margaret Hawthorn David Semenoff Elaine R. Hartwick Vermont Community Henry W. Parker Bank of America Collinsville Canoe & Kayak Foundation Karen Herold & Bruce & Mary Sloat John & Anna Hartwick William L. Parker Google Cry of the Loon Mark Isaacson Vermont Department Stuart Sparling David Heft Shirley Parsons HP Company Outdoor Adventures of Forests, Parks Ben Hoffhine Jeff Stickle Craig Heindel & Steve Patch C orporate Donors Ecopelagicon Nature Store & Recreation Nannette & Dale Krapf Daniel D. Sullivan Judith Chaves Anne D. Peterson Cache Lake Camping Foods Frisky Otter Tours Western Mountains Fund Jeff & Laura Liebel Alfred Tyler Bob Henderson Erik Pieh Gord’s Corner Store of the Maine Community Canoe & Kayak Foundation Erica C. Meyer Barbara Williams Rebecca Henderson & Arthur & Deborah Pierce Kittery Trading Post Daniel Kowalski Colden Canoe Company John Philbrick Jeremy R. Wintersteen David Pill L.L. Cote Kenneth Hill Concept2, Inc. *Includes matching gifts Kristina M. Pisanelli William A. Zinnikas Todd Pozefsky Mac’s Canoe Livery Charles Homeijer Eagle Creek ... continued from page 1 Welcome to New Board Members ...... Kayak and Canoe to Great Food

Jed Kalkstein Bo Norris (Cape Elizabeth, ME) is the itineraries, and to our (Fayston, VT) is on the co-founder of Maine Network Partners and itinerary development and Board of Managers for the founding chair of the Environmental promotion partners at the the VSJF Flexible Capital Funders Network. Previously he served as Lake Champlain Regional Fund and on the Steering Project Coordinator for Chamber of Commerce Committee for the the Northern Forest and Shelburne Farms. Vermont Investors Forum. Center and as Associate Our greatest appreciation goes to the many local participating businesses who He has been involved in Director of Philanthropy offer delicious food and services. economic development projects in Maine, for the Maine Chapter of Please paddle by this summer and served on the board of Vermont’s The Nature Conservancy. and tell them we sent you! Mad River Ski Area. 3

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NFCT2013 SSNL-PRESS.indd 3 4/10/13 2:30 PM Work Projects Along the Trail Hot On the Trail Become an NFCT Steward ➤ Aug. 2–4, Long Falls Dam Carry, A dopt-A-Segment this Summer! Flagstaff Lake, ME Adopters wanted! To paddle to • Build a stone causeway and two and care for amazing locations along f you enjoy paddling in small stone staircases. the NFCT. Volunteers visit twice per scenic locations and giving ➤ Aug. 9–11, Androscoggin River Shore paddling season and do general upkeep. Iback to a resource that provides Trail, Dummer, NH For more information visit Get recreational access to all paddlers, join • Perform corridor work between the Involved/Adopt-A-Segment. To our Stewardship Program. No experience Pontook Reservoir and Boffinger sign-up, contact Trail Director Walter required! For more information about Launch. Opuszynski at (802) 496-2285 ext. 2 or trail projects, visit Get Involved at [email protected]. www.NorthernForestCanoeTrail.org. Available segments are listed west to east on the Trail: Waterway Work Trips Vermont (West) Spend a weekend doing rewarding trail work. Camping is arranged near • NY/VT Border to Mississquoi work sites and time always built-in for River Delta paddling. Cost $60 member/$75 non- Québec member (covers food). Register online • Lake Memphremagog (Canada) or request a mail-in form. Vermont (East) ➤ July 5–7, Raquette Falls Carry, • Lake Memphremagog (United States) Axton Landing, NY • Newport to Pensioner Pond • Contain erosion and re-build a • Silvio O. Conte Visitor Center log retainer wall at a lean-to. to Bloomfield ➤ July 12–14, Eagle Point, Lake New Hampshire Memphremagog, VT • Errol to Umbagog Lake • Install a new campsite with three tent platforms and a privy. Maine ➤ July 26–28, Gull Pond • R angeley Lake to Fansanger Falls , Rangeley, ME • Dead River to Fish Pond • Construct bog bridging and help • West Branch Penobscot River to layout a new lean-to at the Rangeley Mud Pond Lakes Regional Logging Museum. • Michaud Farm Ranger Station to St. John River (And there’s a logging parade and Before and after on New York’s Raquette festival—it’s always a good time!) Falls Carry, which got a durable fix last • Allagash to Saint John Plantation summer thanks to a dedicated Waterway • Saint John Plantation to Fort Kent Work Trip. State-by-State Stewardship News New York Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, we are going to shave off ➤ Revising NFCT Map 1, Adirondack ➤ Controlling erosion on the a mile of carry and add Spectacle North Country (West). Contact Highgate Falls carry. Pond to the NFCT! NFCT if you would like to help. ➤ Rerouting Enosburg Falls Carry. ➤ Installing a kiosk on Raquette Lake. Thanks to the Vermont River New Hampshire ➤ Installing an interpretive display on Conservancy, a recently conserved ➤ Improving Upper Ammonoosuc the Saranac River. riverfront property will allow us to River access in Stark. ➤ Working with the Town of redirect this portage trail and make ➤ Developing a project to further Plattsburgh to develop a new primi- it more user-friendly. improve the Androscoggin River tive campsite on the Saranac River. ➤ Installing a portable toilet at portage trail. Québec Lawyer’s Landing. ➤ Rerouting Island Pond-Nulhegan MAINE ➤ Installing a kiosk in Masonville. Pond Carry. Thanks to Lakeside ➤ Developing a project to improve the Campground and the Vermont Demo Road portage take-out. 4

NFCT2013 SSNL-PRESS.indd 4 4/10/13 2:30 PM S ign-In Box Challenge Hot On the Trail How many NFCT sign-in boxes can you visit in one paddling season? T rail Maintainer There’s only one way to find out. Jamborees this May 1 Visit an NFCT sign-in box, This year, NFCT hosts two weekends sign-in and get a picture of for trail maintainers to learn stewardship yourself next to the box. skills and paddle the Trail. NFCT staff (Visit our website’s Sign-In Box will instruct on basic campsite and trail Challenge for locations.) maintenance as well as how to handle 2 U pload your picture to our water hazards. (This is a great event to website’s Photos/Videos. attend if you are interested in becoming an Adopter!) 3 Email or mail your total tally to ➤ May 4–5, Rangeley Lakes Regional [email protected] by October 31, 2013. Logging Museum, Rangeley, ME ➤ May 18–19, Richford, VT Whoever has signed into the most boxes will win an NFCT baseball cap For more information and to Installed last summer, NFCT sign-in boxes track and T-shirt. Let the challenge begin! sign-up, contact Trail Director Walter valuable trail data and are simply fun to use! Opuszynski at (802) 496-2285 ext. 2 or [email protected]. S easonal Staff Onboard e are excited to have two Regional Field Coordinators work for NFCT this Water Quality Signage Wpaddling season. Noah Pollock and Sam Brakeley will help train and manage summer interns, and coordinate stewardship projects. Noah was one of NFCT’s first interns in Sam Brakeley through 2007 and, lucky for us, keeps returning paddled the NFCT every summer to supervise interns. in 2009 and was a During winter months, he has helped summer intern in establish many 2010. He helped us of our business with trail projects last partnerships fall and we’re glad to in Northern have him in a more Vermont. official capacity this Noah is also year. Sam recently active with the self-published Paddling the Northern Connecticut Forest Canoe Trail: A Journey Through River Paddlers New England History which is available Trail. in NFCT’s online store.

+ Value $900 Win a Trip to the Allagash Renewing and new mem- year guiding this famous The trip is bers who pay their 2013 backcountry route. to be taken dues will be entered into T he trip for one includes: during a drawing to win a FREE • All meals during June–August guided trip on Maine’s 7-day paddling trip 2014, so Allagash Wilderness • Transportation you have plenty of time Waterway. This is a 7-day during trip to and to practice your J-stroke. paddling trip courtesy of from Greenville, ME Drawing and notification Allagash Canoe Trips who • All camping and to winner will take place is celebrating their 60th permit fees in January 2014. Visit www.NorthernForestCanoeTrail.org for more details. Pay dues online or use the reverse side to mail-in your payment. 5

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NFCT2013 SSNL-PRESS.indd 5 4/10/13 2:30 PM Trail Connections Supporter News Sign-up for Northern Forest Explorers This summer, we have ten trips scheduled to take youth, ages 10–14, on the Trail near their communities. Participants go on a 5-day paddling trip led by an NFCT Youth Program intern and experienced local guides. Kids learn paddling, camping and leadership skills, and about environmental and ecological relationships. For example, Northern Forest Explorers learn paddling skills from an experienced local guide on the Allagash River. they learn to take water quality tests and then input their data into an online Maine a national initiative that reconnects spreadsheet that tracks all Northern Forest • Eustis/Stratton (Flagstaff Lake), millennials to the outdoors. The grant Explorer water monitoring across the July 29–Aug. 2 will be used to provide scholarships to entire Trail and over time. • Rockwood/Greenville (West our program participants. We applaud Trip space is limited. Cost is based on Branch Penobscot), Aug. 5–9 Merrell and Outdoor Nation for collabo- a sliding scale. For dates and details, visit • Fort Kent/Allagash (Allagash rating to encourage www.NorthernForestExplorers.org. To River), July 22-26 active outdoor register, contact Youth Program Director recreation. Roger Poor at (802) 496-2285 ext. 5 or Lennox Foundation Thanks to Our Business Partners [email protected]. Supports Youth Program NEMO Provides Member Benefit NEMO Equipment, maker of tents, New York Our Northern Forest Explorers get a sleeping bags and sleeping pads, now major boost this year from the Lennox • Old Forge/Long Lake, July 1–5 offers 10% off retail prices to NFCT • Tupper Lake/Saranac Lake, July 8–12 Foundation. The organization donated members. Based in Dover, New $25,000 to go towards participant schol- Vermont Hampshire, NEMO has more than 100 arships and program administration. products to support your next adven- • Richford/Enosburg We thank the Lennox Foundation for ture, from a backyard campout to a (Missisquoi River), Aug. 5–9 making our trips affordable for families Northern Forest Canoe Trail expedition. • West Charleston/Island Pond who live along the Trail. Purchases must be made online (Clyde River), July 1–5 Thank You Merrell at www.nemoequipment.com; offer • Newport (Clyde River expires 12/31/2013. Watershed), July 22–26 & Outdoor Nation Members can get a NEMO promo New Hampshire Our Northern Forest Explorers code—plus coupons and discount listings Program also received $2,500 from The for more than 20 NFCT businesses— • Errol/Berlin/Dummer (Androscoggin/ when they login Umbagog), June 24–28 Pack Project which is funded by Merrell, maker of shoes and outdoor apparel, to access NFCT’s • Colebrook/Groveton Member Center. (Connecticut River), July 8–12 in collaboration with Outdoor Nation, Thanks to Our Corporate Supporters Pay Your Dues and Give a Gift Membership D id you know that 31% of current members first heard about the NFCT through a friend? Join a pal today and they too will be entered into a drawing to win a FREE trip to Maine’s Allagash (see reverse side for details). Your Membership Gift Membership Please check one: ■ $35 Member ■ $50 Household ■ Already Renewed Friend‘s Dues: ■ $35 Member ■ $50 Household

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NFCT2013 SSNL-PRESS.indd 6 4/10/13 2:30 PM Supporter News H appy 40th to Canoe & Kayak! L incoln Canoe & Kayak Kittery Trading Post Congrats to our Makes Donation Celebrates 75th friends at Canoe & Who wants to win a free kayak? Kittery Trading Post is an anticipated Kayak Magazine on Come to a film fest to enter your name! stop for paddlers driving through Kittery, their 40th year of publishing. We thank Lincoln Canoe & Kayak of Maine. They offer the hottest gear for The well-known paddlers’ guide to Freeport, Maine for donating a 2013 fishing, gear, adventure and know-how entices Chebeague kayak to this season’s NFCT hunting and readers with world-wide paddling Reel Paddling Film Fest Series raffle. All paddling pursuits, and are the sponsor destinations and raises awareness attendees will have an opportunity to of the New England Paddlesports Show about paddling issues. win this beautiful Kevlar Since our founding in 2000, being held this year on April 19–21 at boat with winner’s choice the University of New Hampshire in NFCT has had several features and of custom colors. benefited greatly from the publicity, Durham, NH. Visit them online at Lincoln has been handcrafting boats www.kitterytradingpost.com. as well as from Canoe & Kayak’s for more than fifty years and is known Congratulations KTP in-kind support. Visit them online for their lightweight and strong canoes and thanks for keeping at www.canoekayak.com. and kayaks. We appreciate their past support of NFCT’s annual auction, and paddlers happy all we look forward to their kayak donation these years! helping us make a splash this spring! Thanks to Our Business Partners Class V Class II Class I Trail Partner Maine Island Trail Association Raquette River Outfitters Montgomery Adventures Scampy’s Country Store & Deli Allagash Guide Service 150 Main Street Lodging Bert’s Boats Mount Washington Resort Simon the Tanner Attean Lake Lodge on the Androscoggin Blueberry Hill Inn & Café Nansen Ski Club Skywoods Canoe Co. Charles River Canoe & Kayak Clyde River Recreation Canoe & Co. Donnelly’s Sunset Point Newport Natural St. William’s on Long Point Collinsville Canoe & Kayak Clyde River House Market & Café Hulbert Outdoor Center Swanton Motel Class IV Cry of the Loon Clyde River Outfitters North Hero House Outdoor Adventures Northeast Guide Service Tea Birds Cafe & Restaurant Cochran’s Cabins & North Stratford Market Ecopelagicon Nature Store Old Forge Hardware Kiwassa Lake B&B Ted’s Market & Deli North Woods Rafting Frisky Otter Tours Pelletier’s Campground Errol Motel The Abbey Restaurant Northern Comfort Motel Gord’s Corner Store Raquette Lake Flying Disc Café The Great Outdoors of Vermont Northern Forest Heritage Park L.L. Cote Navigation Company Grey Gables Mansion The Jersey Paddler Class III SaVoir Flare Bed & Breakfast Outdoor Leader Trainers Trailside Lodge Northern Door Inn of America Town of Long Lake Hudson River Recreation Vert Le Mont B&B Rangeley Region Lake Rangeley Lakes Chamber Cruises & Kayaking Tranquillity Lodge Kingdom Trails of Commerce Village Deli & General Store St. Regis Canoe Outfitters Kittery Trading Post Yellow Deli The Last Resort Cabins Little Gnesta & Campground Mac’s Canoe Livery Thanks to all businesses who make contributions Tickner’s Moose River Maine Huts & Trails Canoe Trips beyond regular NFCT Business Partner dues! Thanks to Our Corporate Supporters

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Happening Now S pring Freshet Auction The Northern Forest Canoe Trail Hosts: www.BiddingForGood.com/theCanoeTrailAuction Rapid Media’s Reel Paddling Film Festival World Tour 2013 A pril 15–30, 2013 Bid on PFDs, camping gear, paddling clothing & more! Remaining Events: April 18 Red River Theatres, Concord, NH May 11 The Big Picture, Waitsfield, VT May 24 Collinsville Canoe & Kayak, Collinsville, CT June 8 Northern Outdoors, The Forks, ME P roceeds benefit NFCT’s Stewardship Program. A ll shows start at 7:00 pm. Purchase tickets online at: www.NorthernForestCanoeTrail.org/Calendar of Events/2013 Film Fest Series H elp us Reach Our Goal this Spring Our intern “good luck” troll can anksTh to Our Film fest partners: provide only so much fortune. Your gift today to NFCT’s Trail Fund can help us reach our goal of $70,000. Donate by May 31. Give a gift of $100 or more and receive a copy of Paddling Through Time, a history of NFCT’s first six years. Donations can be made by

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