Susan Power Bratton, The Spirit of the Appalachian Trail: Community, Environment, and Belief on a Long-Distance Hiking Path (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012), xviii + 284 pp., $49.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-1-57233-877-7.

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-378
Author(s):  
John Gatta
Keyword(s):  
Appalachian Trail ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Community Environment

scholarly journals No Façade to Hide Behind: Long-Distance Hikers’ Journeys Through Self and Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-72
Author(s):  
Lauren Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Appalachian Trail ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Personal Skills ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Insight Into

This ethnographic study uses a phenomenological approach to better understand how Appalachian Trail (AT) and Long Trail (LT) thru-hikers create meaning and make sense of their experiences while hiking. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews with 13 hikers, I analyze hikers’ initial reasons for hiking, their reflections while on the trail, and the impacts thru-hiking had on their self-concepts and social lives. Key findings demonstrate how life on the trail contrasts with hikers’ everyday lives in society and thus suggest ways that their experiences on the AT/LT may give insight into nature, community life, personal change, and the process of personal reflection. In particular, this study suggests that long-distance hiking builds personal skills and confidence. Further, this research uses a phenomenological approach as well as the concepts of liminality and communitas to analyze the creation of an alternative trail subculture and new personal identities on the trail, including trail families. 

Sharing the hero's journey: blog posts from the Appalachian Trail.

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Ron McCarville ◽  
Chantel Conlon
Keyword(s):  
Hero's Journey ◽  
Appalachian Trail ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
End To End ◽  
Blog Posts

Abstract This chapter focuses on a hiking choice that, like the hero's journey, embraces difficulty. The researchers studied online blogs posted by thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail (the AT). The term thru-hike describes a typically long-distance hike that traverses an acknowledged 'trail' from end-to-end. Thru-hiking the 2190 mile (3525 km) AT requires months of planning and effort and thousands of dollars to pay for related expenses. More than that, participants expect to undergo extensive physical and emotional hardship. The trail is challenging, often dangerous and fraught with uncertainty. It demands much of its participants, yet hikers are both willing and even eager to undertake those demands. Over 2000 hikers attempt a thru-hike on the AT annually (Littlefield and Siudzinski, 2012).

scholarly journals Assessment of Tree Registration in Leyte and Biliran Islands

2007 ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Emma Germano ◽  
Emmanuel Tan ◽  
Eduardo Mangaoang ◽  
Edwin Cedamon
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Registration Process ◽  
Common Ownership ◽  
Registration Rate ◽  
Tree Inventory ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
Tree Farms ◽  
Timber Market

Staff in six Community Environment and Natural Resources Offices (CENROs) − four in Leyte Province, three in Southern Leyte Province and one in Biliran − were interviewed to establish baseline information on tree registration. In general, the rate of tree registration was found to be low, except in CENRO Maasin, where during 1997 to 2006 a total of 2799 tree farms were registered, covering an aggregate area of 2807 ha and with 1,292,495 trees registered. The highest number of tree farms registered in CENRO Maasin took place in 2004, when a total of 531 were registered, covering an area of 373 ha. Measures and strategies practiced by this CENRO to promote tree registration include: conducting an information, education and communication (IEC) campaign including distribution of extension materials; establishing a link between farmers and buyers in marketing products; and encouraging barangay officials to disseminate tree registration information. Factors leading to the low tree registration rate in Leyte and Biliran CENROs include: long distance between farms and CENR offices; weak tenure (farms under timberland status); inefficient processing of the registration documents; absence of the officer-in-charge of tree registration during farmer visits to Department of Environment and Natural Resources offices; land under common ownership; and farmers unaware about the tree registration process. Suggestions by respondents to improve tree registration include: regularly conducting IEC activities including distribution of extension material, supported by necessary funding; hiring of additional personnel for this purpose, to be assigned in every municipality; enhancing the timber market network; deputizing barangay officials as Environment and Natural Resources Officers (ENROs) to conduct tree inventory, authorized by municipal officials to collect Tree Inventory Certification.

The Fine Structure of Phloem Cells

1985 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 632-635
Author(s):  
James Cronshaw
Keyword(s):  
Structural Studies ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Phloem Tissue ◽  
Sieve Elements ◽  
Long Distance Transport ◽  
P Protein ◽  
Companion Cells ◽  
Electron Microscopical ◽  
Distance Transport

Long distance transport in plants takes place in phloem tissue which has characteristic cells, the sieve elements. At maturity these cells have sieve areas in their end walls with specialized perforations. They are associated with companion cells, parenchyma cells, and in some species, with transfer cells. The protoplast of the functioning sieve element contains a high concentration of sugar, and consequently a high hydrostatic pressure, which makes it extremely difficult to fix mature sieve elements for electron microscopical observation without the formation of surge artifacts. Despite many structural studies which have attempted to prevent surge artifacts, several features of mature sieve elements, such as the distribution of P-protein and the nature of the contents of the sieve area pores, remain controversial.

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