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The Latest Blog Articles:
Why you should apply to work for an AmeriCorps program...
Despite it being the second to last hitch, there's always a first time for everything...
The diversity of tools and skills used in the season is more than you think.
A combination of 3 crews into the Ultimate Aerating Super Crew
A review of our work, mostly involving removing invasives and planting native species
Crew 4 ventures to the edges of South Dakota to restore wetlands in the Black Hills
Tales from the tin can
Completion of a 50 ft turnpike and trail clearing in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness.
Beneath bluebird skies, the Middle Fork of the Flathead River sparkles
The town of Garnet's history and how conservation work helps to keep its history alive for the public to enjoy
Read more about our leads and members from Crew #7 and #4.
After nine hitches of trail work, crew 4 is learning a new skill!
Half hitch of BDAs and half hitch of finishing up the Decoster trail (third hitch on the trail!)
Cherishing moments for what they are instead of what they could be
The GY Saw Crew takes on the Grand Tetons.
Bryant and Madeline's Crew on Hitch #3 "It's The Life You Chose"
Staying in the beautiful Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area, working on the Pacific North Trail!
Working on myself as much as the trail. It's just good hard work.
How the forest re-generates after logging
Structures on the Natural Bridge Trail
A pulaski in one hand, a dozen huckleberries in the other.
A picture of the Wild Roving Crew
Two back-to-back hitches in the beautiful Lamar Valley - you have taught us a lot, Yellowstone…
How our crew adjusted to our first backcountry hitch
Reestablishing Hiking Accessibility to Bear Trap Canyon Trail North
A song parody of “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift about our very first hitch.
Feeling connected while making connections
Crew #7 returns to the Black Hills of South Dakota for Hitch #2 to continue building more BDAs!
Super crew SUPER FUN
A Week in Isolation
Poems from Grist Road
Restoration of a fan favorite trail in Yellowstone
Tata Todd training our crew for the saws
Out in central Montana, removing Russian Olive trees from the Upper Missouri River basin.
Re-establishing the Face of the Mountain Trail
Splashing in the pools of our own creation
A beefy squirrel visits Crew 5
MCC crew 2 conquered elevation sickness
Please! Watch for clay holes!
This is the story of our first encounter with a grizzly bear on hitch.
An imaginative story behind the finding of a rusty Model A toy car in the Kootenai Forest.
Building fences, teamwork, and leadership.
How can we be leaders while working in a team?
A summer of new friendships and leadership building, MCC paved the way for amazing experiences
Rocks, Football, and Ice Cream
Allowing teenagers to experience different career opportunities within the National Park Service
Crew five's recent saw training in Yellowstone
Revisiting sites where we had previously applied herbicide.
GY’s WRT crew embraces the hard times during the summer season with an unmatched playlist!
Project Accomplishments in Shoshone National Forest
Jessica's spooky encounter while scouting for BDAs
A poem about why we as people do MCC
Sophia describes leaving behind Moose Creek for unknown territory
Maybe it's about the friends you made along the way
Appreciating creature comforts and natural beauty around Bridger, MT.
How to have a birthday party in the middle of hitch
The night my crew leaders saved us from the big bad wolf.
Spraying invasive weeds in Yellowstone
Carolyn shares a week of daily haikus written on hitch.
My crew's time on the historic Peterson Sidehill Trail in the Swan Mountains.
Reflecting on two hitches spent at Sun Prairie.
When asked why she chose to do an immersion season, Naomi's response was 'why not?'!
In this line of work, there are some givens: hard physical labor, heat, and all the bug bites you can imagine.
Reflecting on the balance between conservation and agriculture
Crew 4 travels back to the Lewis and Clark National Forest to clear corridor.
The stunning colors dotting the mountains reminded us to be grateful to be alive in the present.
I left my 9 to 5 to find a better connection with the world around me.
Working Hard Inspires Others to Do The Same
MCC went to the Twin Falls BLM District in Idaho for a Fire Mitigation Project
A Hitch In the Bridger Mountain Range
Erin’s friends and family can’t believe she chose this life—but she wouldn’t have it any other way.
A flying and hiking adventure that took the WRT Krassel crews through a Narina-esque landscape
A humbling experience and reminder that the weather dictates a lot...
Snowstorm on Big Mountain
A brief description of the work and camp life of twelve of the greatest enemies of doug fir.
Jade describes their crew's first hitch building BDAs
Trail Building in Big Horn, Wyoming
Maintaining and repairing The Beaten Path through the Beartooths
The first Hitch together as the Moose Creek Ranger Station Immersion Crew!
The Ups and Downs of the First Hitch
Exploration of what there is to be gained by working in naturally beautiful locations
Describing our first hitch and some of the fun we had learning how to be a Crew.
Out in the wilderness with hand tools, grit, and a crew at her side, Casey rediscovered the powerful truth that you really can do anything.
In the mountains of Nez Perce, with sore legs, brush saws, and belly laughs, Jordan’s crew chased the shade and found grit and joy along the way.
Mari reflects on finding community with MCC.
Mortar and landing scaping done on the cabin, and the journal entry written in the cabin's journal
David recounts a hitch where nothing went according to plan.
A week spent on The Beaten Path
Conservation and Education
Back from the first hitch, John recounts crew 4 and 6's journey in the Beartooth Mountains.
Conservation starts in your (literal) backyard.
Starting off the season with excitement to find personal fulfillment in the change being made by MCC's Wildlands Restoration Teams!
Rhyanna writes an ode to Resting Giants and this crew's first hitch.
12 Days of Christmas-themed hitch documentation
Corps work ain't glamorous. In this blog, Talia writes a real checklist of their crew's first hitch in the Grant Tetons!
A meditation on gratitude for this work from Eaton's Ranch
Grace pens a poem to describe the leaders' most recent hitch!
Annika writes an ode to the Hell's Canyon Wilderness
"As fantastically beautiful a place as I have ever seen." - Teddy Roosevelt
