Person/Organization: Anderson, Richard
Item 148290
Richard Anderson with an IAT blaze, Mars Hill, 1995
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1995 Location: Mars Hill Media: Photographic print
Item 148300
Building an IAT lean-to, Grand Pitch, 2005
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 2005 Media: Digital image
Exhibit
Building the International Appalachian Trail
Wildlife biologist Richard Anderson first proposed the International Appalachian Trail (IAT) in 1993. The IAT is a long-distance hiking trail along the modern-day Appalachian, Caledonian, and Atlas Mountain ranges, geological descendants of the ancient Central Pangean Mountains. Today, the IAT stretches from the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, through portions of Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Europe, and into northern Africa.
