Green Mountain National Forest
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Sep 14, 2026
Derek OlsonHOST
And upon close observation, appear to definitely be pre-colonial and seem to be prehistoric.
Derek OlsonHOST
Approximately 20 years ago or so, an archaeologist by the name of David Lacey with the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont was up checking the status of an old fire tower on Glastonbury Mountains summit.
Derek OlsonHOST
And he discovered several of these cairns literally just right off the legendary Long Trail.
Derek OlsonHOST
In his report about them, David wrote, quote, at the summit of Glastonbury Mountain and within the Appalachian Trail corridor are a cluster of three sites, the National Register-eligible Glastonbury Mountain Fire Lookout Tower, the remnants of the associated caretaker's cabins, and at least three stone cairns whose cultural origins are uncertain, but which could well be prehistoric, end quote.
Jeff BelangerHOST
I'm not sure what we'll find.
Jeff BelangerHOST
This massacre took place in 1831 here on the north side of the Green Mountain National Forest.
Jeff BelangerHOST
All right.
Jeff BelangerHOST
Let's set the stage here.
Chris WoodGUEST
September 21st.
Chris WoodGUEST
If you, if you know, it's better if you can, like, you know, I caught my first brook trout in a native brook trout in a roadless area, the bread loaf roadless area in the Green Mountain National Forest.
Chris WoodGUEST
I shot my first bull elk in a roadless area outside of uh, or adjacent to the, uh, Frank, uh, church river, no return wilderness.
Chris WoodGUEST
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Chris WoodGUEST
September 21st.
Chris WoodGUEST
If you, if you know, it's better if you can, like, you know, I caught my first brook trout in a native brook trout in a roadless area, the bread loaf roadless area in the Green Mountain National Forest.
Chris WoodGUEST
I shot my first bull elk in a roadless area outside of uh, or adjacent to the, uh, Frank, uh, church river, no return wilderness.
Chris WoodGUEST
If you could personalize your comment or even just talk about the value of these places to you and your family, even if you don't go to them, just knowing that they exist in the psychic value that that, uh, provides to you, that would be great.
Chris WoodGUEST
It'll enter your name, or you put your name and address in there, and then you just click and make your comment to the Forest Service.
Chris WoodGUEST
Now, I will say, if you happen to have Any personal experience with roadless areas like me, I caught my first native brook trout in the Bread Loaf roadless area in the Green Mountain National Forest.
Chris WoodGUEST
I shot my first elk in a roadless area adjacent to the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho.
Chris WoodGUEST
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Chris WoodGUEST
And I will say, having been through this before, um, it matters if you personalize your note a little bit.
Chris WoodGUEST
I caught my first native brook trout in a roadless area off the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont.
Chris WoodGUEST
I shot my first elk in a roadless area, uh, adjacent to the Frank Church-
Jack HumphreyHOST
Yeah
Natalie KrebsHOST
[laughs]
Chris WoodGUEST
... why would you leave? Um, but I went to school in Vermont, and I discovered the Green Mountain National Forest.
Chris WoodGUEST
And it's where I caught my first, uh, brook trout, first native brook trout in a roadless area there, the Bread Loaf Roadless area in the Green Mountain National Forest.
Chris WoodGUEST
And I was just blown away by this concept that this is my land.
Chris WoodGUEST
Like, I, I could walk anywhere I wanted on it.
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Chris WoodGUEST
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Chris WoodGUEST
I would try to personalize it if you can.
Chris WoodGUEST
Like my story about, you know, fishing in a ro- catching my first brook trout in a roadless area in the Green Mountain National Forest and shooting my first elk in a roadless area in Idaho.
Nick BennettGUEST
So that's the vision and the, the progress, which is really neat.
Nick BennettGUEST
Over the last summer, we got official approval through the Forest Service, both through, um, NEPA, through the Telephone Gap, Gap IRP, this integrated resource plan up in the, um, Rochester District of the Green Mountain National Forest, and then this, uh, this, uh, NEPA, uh, process went through the Manchester District.
Nick BennettGUEST
So to where we now have 165-ish miles of trail either built or approved.
Nick BennettGUEST
Um, and so a lot are shovel-ready, essentially, and big sections in, and kind of anchored in that southern district of the Nat- National Forest, and then the, the northern district.
Nick BennettGUEST
And then that will largely, what's really interesting there too is when we wrap that, we will largely be done with the more or less, there'll be a few more areas, but with the construction on federal land, like, that is the big push right now.
Nick BennettGUEST
And, and the Forest Service has been an amazing partner there.
Nick BennettGUEST
This has been, Vermont's been deemed a priority project of the Green Mountain National Forest, which, so it, it kinda allows them to give a lot of support.
Nick BennettGUEST
So there'll still be more work to do, but a lot of it will transition then to private and to state lands where we've identified prospective corridor, but then it becomes, you know, you're no longer working with monolithic land manager who can prove, even though it might take a couple years, who can prove 100 miles of trail.