How your service helps

• Trails help reduce human impacts on the land by concentrating foot/animal traffic on specific corridors. This helps protect sensitive ecological areas.
• Water mitigation and drainage structures help with erosion control.
• Burn Area Rehabilitation on trails impacted by wildland fire help restore ecosystems and control erosion.
• Provides safe access and enhanced user experience for the recreating public on a wide variety of trail types.  
• MCC also works on trails that have not been maintained for years; this opens up new opportunities and disperses impact.

Invasive weeds take over native grasses and forage that many species (Elk, Deer, Mice, Birds) rely on in the Northern Rockies ecosystem.

The mitigation of these invasive weeds is necessary to protect food sources.

This work allows native plant communities to flourish.

Planting and seed collection help to restore ecosystems impacted by wildland fire and beetle kill. Over the course of 30 years, MCC has planted over 1.2 million trees!

Wildfires have become more frequent and catastrophic.

Fuels work in the wildland/urban interface help to create defensible spaces around homes and in fire threatened communities.

Utilizing chainsaws to reduce the amount of “fuels” (trees, shrubs, etc.) in our forests allows certain species to thrive and reduces the intensity of catastrophic fire in a given area.

In addition to the work our crews do on the ground, we also act as educators to inform the public about Leave No Trace, how our work is positively impacting our public lands, and act as role models for stewardship.

We plant trees/shrubs along waterways to reduce erosion and protect streambanks.

Mesic Restoration: we utilize BDAs (beaver dam analogs) and other low tech process based techniques as a simple, cost-effective, non-intrusive approach to stream restoration.