Mitch Meyer

Mitch is AloTerra’s Construction Program Manager, Lead Equipment Operator, and Fleet/Yard Manager. His 5 years of heavy equipment operating experience includes channel and pond improvement/reconstruction projects, riffle & pool construction, log/rock vanes, check dams, bioswales, biologs and vegetated soil lifts, toe wood installation, floodplain grading, and construction surveying.

 

Much of what he has built are high-tech processed based structure installations, but he has also been able to incorporate low-tech/low-cost solutions to these high-tech processes. For example, in Fall of 2023 while working for Aryes and the Big Thompson Watershed Coalition, Mitch dredged several ponds to increase potential sediment deposition and built nearly 1,000ft of access platforms/bridges out of dead standing trees that were available on site instead of importing a high-cost pre-built platform system. Those same materials were then used to reinforce the pond banks and build log structures downstream of the pond outflow.

 

When Mitch is not in the field, he manages AloTerra’s Equipment Service and Maintenance Program, ensuring a highly functional yard for a fleet of vehicles, equipment, tools, trailers, and restoration materials. He also assists in the project planning/bidding processes and is a supervisor on a variety of restoration projects.

 

Through his work at AloTerra, Mitch has gained the experience and skills necessary to ensure effective installation of complex restoration designs, leading to increased biodiversity and functions for a variety of Rocky Mountain ecosystems.