Benton MacKaye
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Benton MacKaye was a wilderness preservation advocate who first proposed what was to eventually become the Appalachian Trail. His idea was to have a network of work camps and communities in the Appalachian Mountains, linked by a continuous hiking trail that ran through several U.S. States.