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As crazy as it seems, we are almost halfway through our 2025 mechanized trail maintenance schedule. Our main contractor crew has been hard at work every week since starting up in April. They are taking a well earned week off…
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Last half of June is being spent repairing trails in the Dillon Ranger District of Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. This mechanized maintenance project in partnership with Region 1 USFS started this past week and will continue through the end of June.…
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MTVRA was able to schedule a 2nd week helping the Helena Ranger District with trail maintenance on some fire scorched areas to the NE of Helena, MT in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. An excerpt from the contractor’s report…
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Last week saw our contractors working to the NE of Helena, MT in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest. This area east of Canyon Ferry Lake suffered forest fires in the second half of 2024. The Helena Ranger District approached…
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Another week of trail maintenance in the USFS Butte Ranger District on project trails in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Work involved tread repair, trail clearing, and decommissioning of short user-created bypass sections. Outslope and ruts were repaired as well as…
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Last week’s part of the 2025 Mechanized Trail Maintenance program saw MTVRA partnering with the USFS Butte Ranger District on project trails in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Work involved tread work, rolling dip construction, drain dip clearing, and washout repair…
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The draft for the 2026–2030 DRAFT MONTANA STATEWIDE COMPREHENSIVE OUTDOOR RECREATION PLAN (SCORP) has been released. It is a 146 page PDF document that you can make public comment on through June 26th. See link below: https://fwp.mt.gov/public-notices/news/2025/may/0512-2026-2030-draft-montana-statewide-comprehensive-outdoor-recreation-plan-scorp
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Week 4 is in the books for the MTVRA Mechanized Trail Maintenance program. This finishes off 4 weeks of trail maintenance in the BLM Butte office area in partnership with Bureau of Land Management – Montana/Dakotas. Maintenance included tread reconditioning…
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2025 Mechanized Trail Maintenance started April 21st this year and has our contractor teams scheduled out through October. MTVRA is a nonprofit 501c7 club that has actively helped protect and maintain our public Montana trail systems for all types of…
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Urgent email received from Montana Trails Coalition about MT legislative SB 307: Subject: Action Needed: Oppose SB 307 Good Morning Trail Advocates, The Montana Trails Coalition encourages you to submit a comment in opposition of Senate Bill 307 (Reallocate Montana…