Don Hudson was a founding board member of the International Appalachian Trail, the Friends of Baxter State Park, the Maine Green Campus Consortium, and the Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation, and has served on a number of other boards, councils, and commissions. Don received the Green Heart award from the Quimby Family Foundation in 2009, an Environmental Merit Lifetime Achievement award from the US EPA, the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Maine at Machias, the Espy Conservation Award from the Maine Land Trust Network and an Outdoor Hero Award from LL Bean in 2010.

Don lives with his wife, Josephine Ewing, in Arrowsic, Maine USA. They have two sons, Charlie and Reuben.

Information about the International Appalachian Trail can be found here, www.maineiat.org