(26 Jul 2025)
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Unicoi County, Tennessee – 22 July 2025
1. Wide of volunteers gathering equipment from vehicles to rebuild Appalachian Trail
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Perrenod, Appalachian Trail Conservancy crew leader:
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"So the project we’re working on this week is to repair damage that occurred during Hurricane Helene last fall."
3. Wide of volunteers unloading tools from a truck to rebuild trails in Tennessee
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Perrenod, Appalachian Trail Conservancy crew leader:
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"The trail has been sawed out through this area, but there are numerous places where trees used to stand and their roots were in the ground and the roots got pulled up and have left a large hole in the middle of the Appalachian Trail. So we’re what we’re going to be doing primarily is repairing those root ball holes."
5. Wide of fallen tree in forest area as Tennessee volunteers work on rebuilding efforts
6. Mid of a volunteer taking pictures of damage by Hurricane Helene
7. Wide of volunteers gathering equipment in a forest as part of a trail rebuilding effort in Tennessee
8. Wide of tools and equipment laid out as Tennessee volunteers prepare for rebuilding efforts
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Jake Stowe, Appalachian Trail Conservancy program support specialist:
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"The Appalachian Trail is this amazing way to connect folks, right? It can be somebody who’s, yeah, wanting to hike from Georgia to Maine and, and is going to do that in one summer or it’s somebody who’s never stepped foot on a trail and we can bring them to that as well and, and, you know, allow that opportunity. So, I think it’s just such a cool way to, to bring folks into the outdoors and, and get them engaged with stewardship and volunteerism, to me that’s, yeah, not much more important than that."
10. Wide of volunteer operating machinery to clear fallen trees in Tennessee forest
11. Mid of volunteers hiking through a forest trail as part of a rebuilding effort in Tennessee
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Perrenod, Appalachian Trail Conservancy crew leader:
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"Volunteers provide a lot of muscle. We’ve got the 9 volunteers out here. They have varying levels of experience, some are out for the first time, some have been out for a decade or more."
13. Wide of volunteers assessing area during a trail rebuilding project in Tennessee
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Perrenod, Appalachian Trail Conservancy crew leader:
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"Some people come from fairly nearby. Some people come from across the country, and this week we have 3 volunteers from Japan."
15. Mid of volunteers collaborating to set up a camp kitchen in a forested area as part of a rebuilding effort
16. Wide of volunteers working together to dig a privy
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Matt Perrenod, Appalachian Trail Conservancy crew leader:
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"If the Forest Service budget gets cut, if the Park Service budget gets cut, our volunteer program feels it. Most of the funding that we get to pay for our equipment, to buy the gas that got us here, to pay me – that comes on forest service contracts and park service contracts."
18. Mid of volunteers collaborating to set up a camp kitchen in a forested area as part of a rebuilding effort
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Kumi Aizawa, Japanese volunteer:
"The history is quite new in Japan, so now we are trying to learn how to maintain maintain and how to make it sustainable so I thought we thought that this program is going to be a big help for us."
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