1972
1972
1973
1973
Baltimore Friends School summer camp becomes the first course
1973
1973
St. Paul’s School for Girls in Baltimore marks the start of the school courses
1974
1974
Woodlands & Whitewater Institute renamed Woodlands Institute
1978
1978
Spruce Knob Property officially purchased
1982
1982
Start of West Virginia Scholars Academy
TMI raised West Virginia’s college attendance rate from 49th to 46th in the nation with its Scholars Academy program. From the early 1980s to the early 2000s, bright and promising high school students from throughout the state came to the Spruce Knob Mountain Center for a summer enrichment program that…Read More
1986
1986
Woodlands Institute is renamed Woodlands Mountain Institute
1987
1987
Makalu-Barun National Park and Conservation Area initiated
Makalu-Barun Conservation Area and Makalu-Barun National Park initiated as parallel but integrated projects – first for people’s engagement and conservation, second for strict conservation preservation
1994
1994
The Woodlands Mountain Institute becomes The Mountain Institute
2012
2012
Beginning of Mountain Stewards summer camp
Programs renamed and refocused
2017
2017