2024 Awardees

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posted Feb 8, 2024

Bartram National Recreation Trail Maintenance

This project will involve maintenance on a highly popular 2-mile section of the Bartram National Recreation Trail, from Wallace Branch trailhead to William's Pulpit.


posted Feb 9, 2024

Blue Bend Loop Trail Restoration

Volunteers will work in Big Draft Wilderness on minor tread restoration, brushing of vegetation and removing slough and berm to improve the Blue Bend Loop Trail.


posted Feb 8, 2024

Catamount Trail Improvement

A 2.5-mile segment of the Catamount Trail located on the Manchester District of the Green Mountain National Forest will be improved, including hardening water crossings and muddy sections, smoothing out parts of the trail, and re-establishing proper drainage.


posted Feb 9, 2024

Cove Creek Trail Rehabilitation

This project will utilize professional trail-building contractors to rehabilitate this .325-mile legacy trail to re-establish it as a sustainable Forest Service (FS) system trail.


posted Feb 6, 2024

Greenhorn Gulch Trail Reroute and Bridge Rebuild

This project addresses issues with three bridge sites along the first 0.3 miles of the Greenhorn Gulch Trail.


posted Feb 6, 2024

Highline Trail

This project will restore the final 14 miles of the 53-mile National Recreation Highline Trail.


posted Feb 9, 2024

Hurricane Creek Trail Restoration

Volunteers will work on constructing trail drainage structures such as water bars to prevent erosion, installing check dams to reclaim sections of incised tread, constructing a turnpike to get through a wet/muddy area, clearing brush out of the trail corridor and restoration of campsites and fire rings near Echo and Billy Jones Lakes.


posted Feb 8, 2024

Idaho Panhandle National Forest Sandpoint Ranger District Trail Reroute

The project reroutes an existing 1.1-mile user-created trail in seven locations where it follows disused skid road corridors at gradients of more than 15 percent.


posted Feb 6, 2024

Manistee, White, Muskegon, and Pere Marquette River Watershed

SEEDS, North Country Trail (NCT) volunteers, and community volunteers will work with a designated Huron-Manisetee National Forest (HMNF) partner to improve aquatic habitat on the Manistee, White, Muskegon, and Pere Marquette River watersheds through trail rerouting and reconstruction, decommissioning of social trails, and deletion of unauthorized roads and camping areas which negatively impact the river's health.


posted Feb 6, 2024

Mineral Creek Trail Reroute

This project seeks to reroute a section of the Mineral Creek Trail, which was decommissioned along with its associated trailhead in June 2023 to accommodate river side-channel and floodplain restoration projects on the Kachess River.