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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 and rolling dip repair / cleaning. Deep washouts and exposed rock had to be covered…

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 users over the past 40+ years. This has been made possible by passionate volunteers, devoted…

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 Marijuana Tax Revenue) to the Senate Business, Labor and Economic Affairs Committee. What is Threatened:…

Montana Trail Vehicle Riders Association general meeting– Yellow shop building – 622 13th Ave S, Great Falls, MT– Saturday November 23rd– 12pm (noon) general membership meeting Topics of discussion to include 2024 recap, 2025 plans, membership / officer updates, legislative session, and more. Board meeting at 10am, followed by general meeting at noon.

The last two weeks of the trail maintenance season 2024 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. The dry weather and heavily packed use areas made for very difficult and dense…

The last couple weeks saw MTVRA partnering with the USFS Pintler Ranger District on projects in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. Trails worked on were near Georgetown Lake, south of Philipsburg, MT. Project involved some re-route sections, tread work, rolling dip construction, drain dip clearing, and rock / root / tree removal. Thankful for the good…

MTVRA’s main mechanized contractor crew was hard at work in the Wise River Ranger District of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest this week. This was made possible through the partnership between MTVRA and USFS Region 1 for the purpose of maintenance and rehabilitation of the local public trail systems. Local USFS personnel provided the project details…

The last couple weeks saw MTVRA partner with Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest for some rehab trail projects in the Little Belts. This Spring saw an extremely heavy late snowfall that devastated portions of our trail system in that area with thousands of downed and uprooted trees spread throughout. Many different crews, groups of people,…

Our contractors were helping out the Helena RD on some mechanized trail maintenance projects for the past 2 weeks. This ongoing partnership resulted in several different sections of trails being rehabbed. Much of our contractor’s work typically includes removing downed trees, correcting drainage design issues, and reworking off-camber sections that are oftentimes caused by erosion.…

The last couple weeks were spent helping the Bozeman RD with mechanized trail maintenance projects. This ongoing partnership resulted in several different sections of trails being rehabbed in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. Much of our work typically includes removing downed trees, correcting drainage design issues, and reworking off-camber sections that are oftentimes caused by…