White Mountain Trail Collective

At A Glance

Contact: 

Melanie Luce

Location: 

Plymouth, New Hampshire

Primary Issue Area:

  • Land & Water

Active since:

2017

Tax Status:

501(c)(3)

Core volunteers:

45

Our Purpose

To preserve the legacy of trail stewardship in the White Mountains Region by supporting and enhancing sustainable care of our trails.WMTC uses a collective impact strategy to overcome the common challenges ubiquitous to trails in the White Mountains.  We are achieving this by uniting trail supporters into a collective and creating a strategically designed backbone organization with paid staff to perform essential functions.  WMTC works to streamline internal communications to keep trail maintainers in-contact and informed, establishs external communications to raise public awareness and obtain funding from all available sources, manages data entry and administration to measure results and provide data necessary to make intelligent and effective adjustments to the collaborative strategies, and orchestrates project and volunteer management for on-the-ground efforts. This infrastructure helps focus individual and club maintainer’s efforts thereby compounding the overall efficacy of their work as well as reducing competition over funding.  By freeing clubs of some portion of the administrative burden, providing a more strategic allocation and interface with resources, and speaking with a unified voice, trail stewardship in the White Mountains can continue to thrive for generations while protecting the trails and preserving the legacy .