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Four weeks of mechanized trail maintenance in the USFS Bozeman Ranger District is now in the books. A combination of Sweco dozer and mini excavator work has helped repair tread work, add turn-outs, add rolling dips, correct drainage, and make for a more sustainable future design. Some of the areas improved include Bear Canyon area,…

MTVRA contractor crew was busy helping maintain USFS trails in the Crazy Mountains this past week. Couple of minor reroutes, filled ruts, repaired out-sloped sections, reconstructed drain dips, corrected drainage.

MTVRA mechanized trail maintenance program has a couple contractor crews working in different locations during the month of July. USFS Bozeman Ranger District had a large project that MTVRA has been involved with over the past 3 weeks. Several of the trail sections had smaller bridges that did not allow the use of dozers due…

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 to celebrate the 4th of July and also to refresh the equipment to be ready…

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. General trail reconditioning to get rid of ruts and washouts………correcting drainage………adding rolling dips as needed.

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 = Helena Ranger District trail work consisting of drain dip construction and repair, tread reconditioning…

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 MTVRA in early 2025 about forming a partnership to tackle some mechanized trail maintenance in…

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 rolling dip maintenance and drain cleaning. All tread was re-contoured and raked with a trail…

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 sections. We were able to schedule this needed trail maintenance earlier in the year this…