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1. LANDMARKS 12
FALL/WINTER
Newsletter for Kachemak Heritage Land Trust
HIGHLIGHTS
Drying Wetlands
Anchor River Project
2012 Successes
Salmon in the Hills

2. Director’s Column Join us on Facebook!
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KHLT Board Members
Dotti Harness-Foster, President
John Mouw, Vice President
Each of our board members reviewed draft Larsen Klingel, Treasurer
Scott Connelly, Secretary
policy and presented it to their peers on the Donna Robertson Aderhold
board. Our Accreditation Team, a smaller Marian Beck
group of board and staff, met regularly to Nancy Lee-Evans
Rachel Lord
review policy and ensure that we met each Sam Means
deadline. We reviewed our historic financial
records, raised funds to pay for the staff time KHLT Staff
and the application fee, had a financial audit, Marie McCarty, Executive Director
revised our entire policy and procedures Mandy Bernard, Conservation Director
manual, and we have been scanning our Anne Cain, Development Coordinator
Rick Cline, Accounting/Grant Manager
most significant financial records and all of Patrick Miller, Stewardship Coordinator
our land records. We have cloud storage for
our documents, have a new office server KHLT Contact Information
with offsite backup, and have a finely tuned Kachemak Heritage Land Trust
Marie McCarty
recordkeeping policy and implementation 315 Klondike Avenue
Executive Director system. While none of this is tied to Homer, AK 99603
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best management practices directly ties to
our ability to fulfill our perpetual stewardship Credits
responsibilities. Cover photo © KHLT, M. Bernard
O ur Conservation Director, Mandy
Bernard, carted three fat flat-rate boxes
to the post office on September 1 to submit
Our hard work was supported by people like
you who understand what it means to be a
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our accreditation application to the National steward of land forever. While there is the on- DIRECTOR’S COLUMN.. . . . . . . . . . 1
Land Trust Accreditation Commission. The the-ground component of monitoring land
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
boxes represent 2 years’ work, and we’re to ensure it is not harmed over time, there is WELCOME TO KHLT!. . . . . . . . . . . . 2
feeling a suite of emotions—happy, relieved, also the paperwork required to ensure that
tired, and excited—as we apply to become each parcel we promise to protect has both DRYING WETLANDS
a nationally accredited land trust. Becoming the funds for stewardship and the paperwork ON THE KENAI PENINSULA. . . . . . 3
accredited will be the formal recognition that necessary to defend it over time. ANCHOR RIVER PROJECT
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust meets national PROTECTING OUR WATER
quality standards within the land trust So while our accreditation work resulted in AND SALMON HABITAT. . . . . . . . . 6
community. There are 1,700 land trusts across three fat flat-rate boxes, it really represents
WHAT MOVES
the country and 181 of these are accredited our promise to you to preserve land forever.
YOUR HEART?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
thus far. We’re excited to move into the next phase
of providing the Kenai Peninsula with our SALMON IN THE HILLS.. . . . . . . . . 9
For me, the most profound piece of our professional land conservation services
LAND CONSERVATION
accreditation process was how hard the and again, thank you for believing in our
LAST FOREVER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
board and staff worked together to put our mission. It’s an exciting time to be part of
application together. The ability of both our Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, and I invite KHLT ANNUAL MEETING
board and staff to work hand-in-hand on this you to consider increasing your support for OF THE MEMBERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
and all other aspects of our organization is a our work, as we work to increase the pace of THANK YOU TO
powerful indication to me of the strength of strategic private land conservation.  OUR BUSINESS MEMBERS.. . . . . . 10
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust and our belief
in the organization’s mission and direction. THANK YOU TO
OUR FUNDERS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
You, as a supporter of Kachemak Heritage
Land Trust, likewise play a key role in our Marie McCarty, Executive Director KHLT APPLIES FOR
success. LAND ACCREDITATION . . BACK COVER
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3. Thank You for Your Service Welcome to KHLT!
T hank you to Sheryl Ohlsen.
Sheryl served as our
Accounting Manager, working
W elcome to Donna Robertson
Aderhold, our newest Board member.
Donna is an environmental scientist
diligently and cheerfully for an engineering and environmental
on KHLT’s finances, and she consulting firm, providing guidance on the
led our Accreditation Team regulatory process for a variety of proposed
through the submission of our development projects throughout Alaska.
comprehensive application As a wildlife biologist she believes that
to the national land trust land conservation is one of the most
Accreditation Commission. Sheryl Ohlsen important things humans can do to ensure Donna Robertson Aderhold
We are pleased that she is Accounting Manager maintenance of healthy ecosystems for Board of Directors
remaining on our Budget and Investment Committee, future generations. Donna is on the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve’s
and appreciate her continuing keen eye for financial Community Council, the Homer library’s landscaping committee, and
details. Many thanks for all of your hard work, and we is a member of the professional organizations The Wildlife Society
wish you the best wishes in all of your endeavors. and Society of Wetland Scientists. Donna has served on various KHLT
committees.
T hank you to Jamie Grant.
Jamie served as our
Development Coordinator, W elcome to Anne Cain. Anne is our
new Development Coordinator.
working hard with our Anne first appeared on the Alaska scene in
Development Committee and 1964, attending Homer High School when
staff on both our fundraising her parents moved her from Texas as a
and outreach efforts. Her teenager. During her stay, she developed
keen graphic design eye and an intense love of Alaska, and has returned
her background in business numerous times. Anne has B.A. in English/
brought a new touch to Jamie Grant History from Texas A&M University-Corpus
KHLT, and one that we really Development Coordinator Christi, and majored in Secondary Education Anne Cain
Development Coordinator
appreciated and will continue to incorporate in our work. at The University of Texas at Austin. After an
Much luck at your new position with the State, we wish early, voluntary retirement from her Technical Editor/Writer position
you all the best.  with UT’s College of Engineering in 2005, she moved to Alaska to
work publications contracts with Anchorage engineering firms (three
Native Corporations, Crowley Maritime, and CH2M Hill), as well as
Nuka Research and Planning Group on the Alaska Department of
Environmental Conservation’s Risk Assessment Project.
W elcome to Rick Cline. Rick is our new
Accounting and Grants Manager.
Before finding Alaska Rick earned his
Bachelor of Arts in Finance at the University
of Santa Clara, worked as a Financial Analyst
for ESL (a subsidiary of TRW), and taught
English in Sapporo, Japan, while pursuing
martial arts training in Kobayashi-ryu.
Arriving in Homer, Alaska by motorcycle
in 1992, he was captured by the beauty Rick Cline
of Kachemak Bay. For the past eight years, Accounting/Grant Manager
he and his wife Charlene have owned and run the outstanding
Homestead Restaurant. 
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4. A transect sample of 192 black spruce trees in this photo showed that the median tree age was 32 years. These trees are growing in a drying fen
underlain by more than 16 feet of Sphagnum peat. The peat contained no logs, stumps or woody shrub roots, indicating that this is a “first time” forest
growing on a formerly soggy peatland. Similar wood-free peatlands have been dated elsewhere in the central Peninsula to more than 18,000 years.
Photo shows the Coal Creek wetlands south of Soldotna, looking southeast from the Sterling Highway.
photo © Ed Berg
Drying Wetlands
on the Kenai Peninsula
By Ed Berg, PhD.
Ed retired recently from the US Fish & Wildlife Service, where he served as the ecologist at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge in
Soldotna since 1993.
I n the mid-1990’s I began seeing some large-scale ecological
changes on the Kenai Peninsula. The most striking change
was the massive die-off of mature upland spruce forests
In my fieldwork I used two sets of USGS quad maps, one set
dating from the 1950s and a more recent set from 1986. My
first awareness of the landscape drying came from noticing that
due to the spruce bark beetle infestation, especially on the many of the small ponds shown in blue on the 1950s maps no
southern Kenai. More subtle, however, was a general drying longer appeared on the 1986 maps and were now grass-filled
of the landscape. As part of my work as the ecologist at the pans. I ran transects through some of these pans, and mapped
Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, I spent a lot of time exploring the small spruce and hardwood seedlings popping up among
the two million acres of the Refuge, which spans the western the grass.
Kenai from Turnagain Arm to the south side of Kachemak Bay.
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5. Old timers in the area confirmed my observations. A horse showed a strong “woodification” of the landscape with trees
packer for moose hunters in the Mystery Hills described how it and shrubs colonizing previously open and wetland areas.
was hard to find water nowadays for his horses; his traditional
streamlets and water holes had dried up. Others described For her MS thesis Kacy McDonnell Hillman did a similar aerial
how it was possible to drive 4WD pickups in the summer across photo study, this time adding 1968 photos. Using GIS she
wetlands in the Caribou Hills that had previously only been measured the open (treeless) wetland area at 11 sites, and found
crossable by snow machine in the winter. Residents along the that open wetland loss between 1951 and 1968 was 6.2% per
south leg of K-Beach Road described a shrub invasion of their decade, and was 11.1% between 1968 and 1996. This indicated
wetlands that greatly improved berry picking. Those wetlands that the wetland drying was accelerating, almost doubling on
were now dry enough that berry pickers didn’t need rubber a decadal scale.
boots anymore.
Workers at the Marathon gas field have been driving Marathon
Road northeast of the Kenai airport for decades; they described
the vigorous expansion of black spruce “islands” in the large
6500-acre wetland complex between the airport and Beaver Old timers in the area confirmed
Creek. I compared the 1950s and 1996 aerial photos and
saw that the black spruce islands were growing like rapidly
my observations. A horse packer
expanding patches of mold on bread. for moose hunters in the Mystery Hills
Many wetlands on the Kenai have halos of small black spruce
described how it was hard to find water
around their perimeters. I was curious to know if these small nowadays for his horses; his traditional
trees were old stunted dwarfs, growing at the limit of their
water tolerance, or were they young recruits now growing on streamlets and water holes had dried up.
a drier substrate? We ran 2-meter wide transects through three
of these wetland perimeter halos, digging up all the seedlings
and saplings and coring the larger trees with an increment
borer to get tree-ring samples. In the digging process we
discovered that there was no dead wood under these forests; To look at the drying and woodification processes on a much
no stumps or buried logs. These were “first time” forests. longer time scale we took peat soil cores at 18 sites from Nikiski
Furthermore, the trees were young and vigorous, not stunted to Homer. Allana DeRuwe Drossus used these cores for her
old guys. The median ages of trees at Marathon Road were 65 MS thesis on volcanic ash, but they also provided a look at
years, at Coal Creek 32 years (see photo), and at Brown’s Lake the vegetation history of the wetlands which extended back
east of Funny River 76 years. The very oldest trees dated back to more than 18,000 years. Most of the cores showed that these
the 1850’s, which was the end of the Little Ice Age and the time wetlands had been soggy fens dominated by Sphagnum moss
when glaciers on the west side of the Kenai Mountains, such as and sedges; all the woody material was at the top of the cores,
Grewingk, began to retreat. consisting of mostly live roots of surface shrubs. We aged the
stems of one of the most abundant shrubs, dwarf birch, at three
I became curious about the long-term scale of these changes: sites and found that their median age was 14 years. The fact
were we really seeing something new or were we simply in that there were few dead shrub roots or stems down in the peat
rather dry period, as part of a natural climatic cycle? Three indicated that these shrub patches, like the black spruce halos,
graduate thesis projects with Prof. Roman Dial at Alaska Pacific were “first time” colonists.
University provided strong evidence that these changes are
new, and that they reflect the general climate warming and Ice from the last major glaciation began to retreat from the
drying occurring throughout Alaska and other northern central Kenai lowlands about 18,000 years ago, and our oldest
latitude areas. For his MS thesis project Eric Klein picked 1113 peat cores document peat accumulation starting at this time.
random points on aerial photos from the 1950s and 1996. He There has been at least one major warm period since then,
classified the vegetation at each point as being wooded, open, called the Hypsithermal or Holocene Thermal Maximum
wet or water. In the 40+ years between photos the wooded occurring 9-11,500 years, and a general cooling of the climate
points increased from 57% to 73%, open points shrank from over the last 5-6,000 years. Even the warm period, however, was
31% to 20%, wet from 5% to 1%, and water from 7% to 6%. This not sufficiently dry to bring trees or shrubs into these
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6. (A) This graph shows the mean decline of 3.8 inches of “available water” after the 1968-69 drought. Available water is the water
utilizable for rivers and lakes, plant and animal growth, and groundwater recharging. One can think of this water as the spendable
part of the water budget, calculated as the income (precipitation or P) minus expenditures (potential evapotranspiration or PET).
(B) Gray bars show the changes in the two components (P and PET) of available water. Black bar shows the change in available
water (P – PET). The primary cause for declining available water is 12% less annual rainfall (by 2.3 inches); the secondary cause is
warmer summers with 10% more evapotranspiration (by 1.4 inches). Data are from the Kenai airport.
soggy fens; tree and shrub invasion has only occurred since the where the drying is most intense due to the strong rain shadow
end of the Little Ice Age, and especially since the 1970s. of the Kenai Mountains. The black spruce colonizing the
wetlands is a highly flammable fuel type. Wetlands that in the
Weather records from the Kenai airport show a distinct turning past were firebreaks separating beetle-killed spruce uplands will
point following a drought in 1968-69 (see graph). Basically the in time become fuel bridges that allow more rapid propagation
central Kenai has never recovered from this drought, and the of fire across the landscape. Add warmer air temperatures and
continuing drought has accelerated the drying process which drier fuels, and you have a recipe for more frequent and much
started at the end of the Little Ice Age. larger fires. Reduced available water means less streamflow
and groundwater recharge, so communities such as Nikiski,
People often ask me if the filling in of ponds and the growth Homer and Anchor Point that depend on streams and wells will
of forests in wetlands isn’t just a natural process of plant find their drinking water supply reduced.
succession? Ecology textbooks describe classical pond-to-
forest succession starting with an open pond, then emergent The observed changes described here are small compared
aquatic plants and sedimentation, then peat formation in a wet to the changes forecasted by climate models for the end of
fen, and finally trees and shrubs recruiting on the peat soil. My the century and beyond, but they can serve as warnings to
answer is, yes, this is classical succession but why is it happening land stewards and resource managers that the landscape is
now, at an accelerating rate, after 18,000 years of stable wet changing and that resources such as water should not be taken
fens? Indeed, the same question can be asked anywhere in for granted.
Alaska. Similar studies on the North Slope and in the Interior are
documenting a variety of new processes that haven’t occurred
for thousands of years such as melting permafrost, retreating
glaciers, shrinkage of the Arctic icecap, and alder invasion of the Further information: Berg, E.E., K.D. McDonnell, R. Dial, and A.
tundra. These are the faces of climate change in Alaska. DeRuwe. 2009. Recent woody invasion of wetlands on the Kenai
Peninsula Lowlands, south-central Alaska: a major regime shift
There will be some practical consequences of the Kenai’s drying after 18 000 years of wet Sphagnum–sedge peat recruitment.
landscape, especially on the central and northern lowlands Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39(11): 2033– 2046. 
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7. Cold Water is Critical.
The survival and persistence of salmon is
highly dependent on water temperature.
Research on the Anchor River identifies
critical salmon habitat.
Thermal infrared imagery (left) with corresponding aerial
image (right) showing cold water inputs (purple) to the
mainstem of the Anchor River (orange).
photo © Cook Inletkeeper
Anchor River Project
Protecting our Water Quality and Salmon Habitat
By Sue Mauger, Cook Inletkeeper
A s water temperatures get warmer in many of Cook Inlet’s
streams in the years ahead, cold water areas within a
stream which are persistently colder than adjacent areas – will
south fork of the Anchor River. This exciting technology is
an effective method for mapping small-scale temperature
patterns in streams. The TIR imagery provides a snapshot of
be critical to the survival and persistence of salmon. Cold-water stream temperatures at the time of the survey. And although
fish, like salmon and trout, get stressed out in warm water and temperature values change year-to-year, groundwater-fed
become increasingly vulnerable to pollution, predation, and cool water areas remain persistent over time. Even in the cool
disease. Deep pools, overhanging vegetation and undercut summer of 2010, the location and thermal influence of 18
banks can be important cold-water habitats. Stream areas tributaries, 23 seeps and springs, 11 sloughs, and 9 small side
with groundwater interactions (i.e. springs and seeps) may channels and drains is apparent in the imagery.
also result in measurably cooler water. Mapping these cold-
water stepping stones that are needed for salmon to make In 2012, Cook Inletkeeper will collect even more imagery along
their way up and down otherwise warming streams is the first 30 miles on the north fork Anchor River and 12 miles on the
step towards protecting critical salmon habitat in this time of lower Ninilchik River. With a treasure map of these cold spots,
thermal change. Kachemak Heritage Land Trust will then be able to identify land
parcels with critical Chinook and Coho salmon habitat.
Cook Inletkeeper, in collaboration with the Homer Soil and
Water Conservation District and the Alaska Department of Fish These parcels will be the focus for permanent conservation
and Game, began identifying critical habitat conditions for work. This goal can only be achieved through partnerships
cool water along the Anchor River in 2006. Based on in-stream with willing landowners. A partnership of local organizations
surveys, overhanging vegetation, which provided shade during working together with individuals in the community provides
the mid to late afternoon, provides some of the most significant a unique opportunity to link state-or-the-art science with
cool water habitat for juvenile salmon. conservation planning and land protection strategies designed
for perpetual habitat conservation to protect our way of life and
In 2010, Cook Inletkeeper expanded this effort and incorporated a valuable and precious resource that connects all life on the
state-of-the-art technology to map cold-water habitat using peninsula- the salmon. 
airborne thermal infrared (TIR) imagery along 34 miles of the
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9. What Moves
Your Heart?
P eople like places they love to remain the same forever, whether
it’s the network of Forest Preserves near a childhood home or
property Kachemak Heritage Land Trust owns along the Anchor
River. For many, it’s about ensuring there are always places of
refuge. There aren’t many organizations like KHLT set up to imagine
so far into the future. It’s that long-term vision that forms the heart
of KHLT, and as a KHLT supporter, one that likely is important to you.
This past summer, we received a huge vote of confidence in the form
of a gift of $25,000 from a wonderful supporter. This anonymous
donor wants the gift to be a catalyst to others to increase the pace of
our ability to preserve land. This donor understands that permanent
land protection takes money; and with this large financial
commitment, this donor has cast a strong vote of confidence in
KHLT.
To honor this generous gift, we’ve set a fundraising goal to raise
an additional $25,000 to support conserving the places that give
meaning to all our lives. Please join our generous supporter by
sending in an additional year-end gift to help us meet this goal.
Your gift will show how one great gift can encourage others and help Your year-end contribution
us increase the pace of land conservation on the Kenai Peninsula!
will enable us to permanently
It’s KHLT’s role to make sure treasured places remain intact for the protect important Kenai
future, providing places to simply sit and think, play, or remain wild.
Peninsula fish and wildlife
Your year-end contribution will enable us to permanently protect habitat and provide
important Kenai Peninsula fish and wildlife habitat and provide
professional conservation services to landowners on the Kenai professional conservation
Peninsula. Please use the enclosed remittance envelope to
donate today. Whatever amount you and your family choose to
services to landowners on the
contribute will be greatly appreciated.  Kenai Peninsula.
photo © KHLT, G. Goforth photo © KHLT, M. Bernard
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10. Leading research points to juvenile salmon in unassuming places
Salmon in the Hills
By Coowe Walker, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve
L ook at the picture below. Do you notice the small stream
meandering through the wildflower meadow? Would you
guess that hundreds of young
traffic and development. Do you have property where there is
a headwater stream? If so, then you likely have salmon in your
hills.
salmon are living there?
With the new science that is emerging, KHLT and willing
landowners can take steps to ensure that essential elements
of the landscape are maintained to keep our headwaters, and
salmon, healthy.
Why are the landscapes of the lower Kenai Peninsula so
productive as salmon habitat? Our research on nutrients and
streamside vegetation, shows that nitrogen coming from
alders in the surrounding area is a significant driver of stream
productivity. Alder is a ‘nitrogen-fixer’, which means that the
root systems of alder are able to take atmospheric nitrogen
Since 2006, the Kachemak and convert it into a form that is biologically useful. Not many
Bay Research Reserve has plants in our landscapes can do this. As nitrogen is typically in
been leading research efforts short supply in our aquatic systems, inputs of this basic nutrient
to learn about these often photo © KBRR become very important to promoting algal growth, which fuels
remote, and previously unstudied areas. We have learned that stream insect (mayflies, caddisflies, etc.) production, which in
these tiny streams at the uppermost reaches of our watersheds turn moves up through the foodweb as food for young salmon.
are, in fact, very important nurseries for juvenile salmon. These We now know that alder is important keeping our headwaters
streams are the headwaters that are the origin of our rivers. healthy.
Did you know that the headwater streams for many of the Our research has also shown that the tall grasses that grow next
Rivers along the Lower Kenai Peninsula are unique areas to find to the headwaters are an important food base. The grass flops
thriving salmon habitat? Most headwater streams are too small, over into the stream, where it becomes the framework for algae
steep, and quickly flowing and are not conducive to juvenile fish to grow on, which the insects then eat, ultimately becoming
rearing. Our headwater streams are critical to juvenile salmon food for young salmon. We call this ‘grass fed salmon’!
habitat. We have found more than ¼ million juvenile salmonids
that are using these streams! This research is unraveling how our landscapes are connected
to headwater streams. Alders in the surrounding area provide
What is so important about the headwater streams of the lower important nutrients; grass by the streamside provides a
Kenai Peninsula? foundation for the food web. We are continuing our research,
and as we learn, we will share our findings. By understanding
In most places, headwaters have been considered fishless how our landscapes are connected to headwaters, we can
because headwaters in most regions are small, steep, quickly make sure that we protect the essential elements of the
flowing systems that aren’t conducive to fish. The headwaters landscape that are most important to young salmon. As an
of the Anchor River, Deep Creek, Stariski Creek and Ninilchik informed landowner, you are important for maintaining healthy
River are quite different in that they are important fish rearing headwater nurseries for young salmon. 
habitat. They are also predominantly located on private
property, which makes them susceptible to impacts from high
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11. Land Conservation Lasts Forever Thank to our Business Members
P lease consider making a lasting gift to Kachemak Heritage
Land Trust in your estate plans, included either through
your will or trust, or through a gift of life insurance.
»»
»»
»»
2-2 Tango
Alaska Rivers Company
Alaska Timberframe
»» Law Offices of Daniel
»»
Westerburg
Loopy Lupine Distribution
»» Alderfer Group LLC
For more information on how to make a legacy gift to Kachemak »» Applied Archaeology »» Marine Services of Alaska
Heritage Land Trust please call or email Marie McCarty at (907) International »» Moose Run Metalsmiths
235-5263, marie@kachemaklandtrust.org. »» Annette and Marvin Bellamy »» Wilderness Garden Day Spa
»» Best Western Bidarka Inn »» North Wind Home
»» Bobcat Services Collection
Chihuly’s Charters Oasis Environmental, Inc./
KHLT Annual Meeting of the Members »»
»» Cosmic Kitchen, Inc.
»»
ERM
»» Derry and Associates »» Preventive Dental Services
T his year’s KHLT Annual Meeting of Members will take place
on November 29th at the Islands and Ocean Visitor Center
beginning at 5:30 PM.
»»
»»
Eayrs Plumbing and Heating
ERA Aviation
»»
»»
Seaman’s Adventures
Seaside Farms
»» Grant Aviation »» SeaULater Charters Alaska
»» Andrew Haas and Terri »» Seldovia Bay Ferry
We will hold our Annual Meeting, finish the voting process,
Spigelmyer Law Offices »» Spenard Builders Supply
and hold a Board of Directors meeting. The two issues that
»» Hallo Bay Wilderness Camp »» Ulmer’s Drug and Hardware
require voting are the Board Director re-election and Bylaw
»» HDR Engineering, Alaska »» Wild North Photography
amendment. Marian Beck and Larsen Klingel are each running
»» Home Run Oil
again for a seat on the Board of Directors.
»» Homer Electric Association
»» Homer Saw and Cycle
The theme for this year’s Annual Meeting is: “Local Conservation,
»» Homer Veterinary Clinic
Global Impact: How Birds Tie Alaska to the World.” Our speaker
»» Homer’s Jeans
will be Melanie Smith, Landscape Ecologist with Audubon
»» Jay-Brant General
Alaska. The event will focus on current issues facing Homer and
Contractors
the Kenai Peninsula’s bird populations, and how these issues tie
»» Kachemak Bay Ferry, Inc.
into broader global bird issues. 
»» Janet Klein
Thank to our Funders
»» Alaska Community Foundation
»» Alaska State Historic Preservation Office
»» Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund
»» Bullitt Foundation
»» Community Foundation Boulder County
»» ESRI
»» Homer Foundation, City of Homer
»» Homer Foundation, KLEP Fund
»» Homer Foundation, Tin Roof Fund
»» Land Trust Alliance
»» Pikes Peak Foundation, the Webb Family Fund
»» People’s Garden, USDA
»» Pacific Coast Joint Venture
»» Rasmuson Foundation
»» True North Foundation
»» U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services Coastal Program
»» US Fish and Wildlife Services Partners for Wildlife
Roger Pearson, former KHLT Board member photo © KHLT »» Vanguard Foundation
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KHLT Applies for Land Accreditation!
K achemak Heritage Land Trust, a regional land
trust founded in 1989, is pleased to be applying
for accreditation with the Land Trust Accreditation
Commission. The land trust accreditation program
recognizes organizations that meet national quality
standards for protecting natural places and working
land forever.
For more information:
Please read the Public Notice of Application For Land
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