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Newsletter for Kachemak Heritage Land Trust HIGHLIGHTS

The Foraker Group Leadership Summit 2013 Wings over Western Waters July–August Wild Arts Creating a Legacy The Kachemak Bay Water Trail

Director’s Column

Marie McCarty Executive Director

“No one can whistle a symphony.

It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”

-H.E. Luccock

The Collaborative Journey KHLT has always worked in collaboration with other organizations, but we are taking on larger projects with more complex collaborative work. We understand that collaborative efforts require trust, commitment, clear goals and funding to make projects feasible. This work, of course, is only possible with your support and understanding, and so I would like to invite you to learn about Wings over Western Waters.

The inception of Wings of Western Waters Andrew Mackie and I dreamt big as we drank late afternoon coffee on the last day of a fiveday national land conservation conference.

Andrew and I first met in 2010 at the first in a series of Land Trust Alliance leadership trainings in the Alliance’s new Excellence program.

Because so many individuals, businesses and organizations contributed toward this series of intensive leadership trainings for 1

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21 land trust executive directors in the West, we wanted to pay it forward in the land trust community. But what made sense? What did Andrew’s land trust in Salida, Colorado and our land trust on the Kenai Peninsula have in common? Of course, Andrew said, it’s birds.

Before becoming the executive director of Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas, Andrew worked for Audubon for 19 years. Over coffee, the collaborative effort titled Wings over Western Waters was born. We hope you share in our excitement in KHLT’s efforts to foster bird conservation on private lands on a larger landscape. To learn more, please read the article Wings over Western Waters in this newsletter.

I hope you are excited to learn about our new collaborative project and will support it and our other work. This strategic work means that your donations are put to conservation work that has a direct impact on our beautiful landscape, and while also being part of a larger effort to consider the impact of private land conservation in the West. 

KHLT Board Members Dotti Harness-Foster, President Sam Means, Vice President Larsen Klingel, Treasurer Scott Connelly, Secretary Donna Robertson Aderhold Marian Beck Nancy Lee Evans Rachel Lord John Mouw

KHLT Staff Marie McCarty, Executive Director Mandy Bernard, Conservation Director Rick Cline, Accounting/Grant Manager Patrick Miller, Stewardship Coordinator Sheryl Ohlsen, Communication & Development Coordinator

KHLT Contact Information Kachemak Heritage Land Trust 315 Klondike Avenue Homer, AK 99603 (907) 235-5263 | (907) 235-1503 (fax) www.KachemakLandTrust.org

Credits Cover photo © Marian Beck Layout Design | Debi Bodett

CONTENTS DIRECTOR’S COLUMN.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 COMMUNITY GARDEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

“One cannot be pessimistic about the West.

This is the native home of hope.

When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it, then it will have achieved itself and outlived its origins. Then it has a chance to create a society to match its scenery.”

– Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water

Kachemak Heritage Land Trust: Celebrating our 20th year protecting land in perpetuity

FORAKER GROUP LEADERSHIP SUMMIT 2013.. . . . . . . 2 ON COMMON GROUND LYNN WHITMORE ARTICLE.. . . . . . . . 3 WINGS OVER WESTERN WATERS.. . 5 WILD ARTS EVENT.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 CREATING A LEGACY.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 THE KACHEMAK BAY WATER TRAIL.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 THANK YOU TO BUSINESS MEMBERS & PROJECT FUNDERS. . . 10 WE NEED YOUR HELP IMMEDIATELY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Marie McCarty Executive Director www.KachemakLandTrust.org

OPPORTUNITIES TO VOLUNTEER BACK COVER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

KHLT Community Garden

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he community garden program at Kachemak Heritage Land Trust provides an in-town location for gardening, promoting access to healthy local foods, and beautifying the 3.47-acre “Poopdeck” property in the heart of Homer. The garden currently focuses on children and community philanthropy. 

Potato Philanthropy Project “Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”

– May Sarton

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tudents from West Homer Elementary School are growing potatoes for the Homer Food Pantry in a portion of the community garden, with help from some of our friends. Volunteers will tend the plants over the summer, and the elementary school students will harvest the potatoes this fall for donation to Homer’s food pantry.

Students involved in the Center’s summer program also plant and harvest in the KHLT garden, meeting weekly in the garden to tend to their produce.

The Foraker Group Leadership Summit 2013

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or two days in April, KHLT staff attended the Foraker Group’s 2013 Leadership Summit, joining over 400 Alaskan nonprofit leaders.

The theme for the two days was storytelling as an effective way to communicate our work to the public. Everyone knows that facts and figures are important, but what people truly connect with are stories that move us to action and that show us how KHLT’s work changes the world.

Speakers included Thaler Pekar, an expert in storytelling, Kivi Leroux Miller, an expert in nonprofit communications, Tom Ahern, expert in donor communications, Steve Culbertson, President of Youth Service America, Michael Balaoing, a consultant focused on helping others tell their stories, Zan McColloch-Lussier an expert on social media, and David Thompson on policy work for nonprofits.

Alaska’s Foraker Group is a nonprofit organization “dedicated to increasing the leadership and management skills of professionals and volunteers working in Alaska’s nonprofit and tribal organizations.” 

Kachemak Heritage Land Trust:

Thanks to the People’s Garden grant and volunteer efforts, there will be new raised beds and a compost bin this summer in the garden.

Emerging Stars of Land Conservation Award 2013

Our Potato Philanthropy Project aims to connect local youth to the concept of locally grown food while also giving back to the community. Please contact us if you are interested in helping out! 

o you know someone 18-40 years old doing great work protecting, restoring or enhancing land on the Kenai Peninsula?

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People living on the Kenai Peninsula take land stewardship seriously and are making a long-term difference on our spectacular landscape. Kachemak Heritage Land Trust wishes to recognize one exemplary, emerging conservation leader from the Kenai Peninsula for his or her conservation accomplishments.

We would love to know about these folks and showcase one special individual and their accomplishments. Details about this award and applications will be on our website at www.KachemakLandTrust.org later this summer.

Stay Tuned!  photo © KHLT

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Lynn Whitmore Fishing photo © KHLT

On Common Ground

By Hannah Heimbuch

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hen we teach our children to work together, we’re quick to use the age-old metaphor of ‘finding common ground.’ That phrase couldn’t be more fitting for the partnership that’s gradually developed between the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust and Kachemak Moose Habitat, Inc. While the diverse organizations at work in a city or borough are constantly called upon to seek such commonality, these two organizations take the philosophical and literal meaning of that advice to heart.

According to KMH Inc. board president Lynn Whitmore, the why is the easy part — open space, and moose. He likes them, and he’d like to keep them around. “I’m a very large user of the resource,” Whitmore said. “I’m a moose hunter, a bird hunter, I have a terrible fishing habit. I fish all the time. So I use our resources a lot.” The key, he said, is giving back more to the resource than you take from it. “If everybody did that, if all these people in this community who use these resources put the same amount of time back into taking care of those resources, our resources would be in a lot better shape.” How to do that, Whitmore said, starts with creating meaningful relationships 3

between individuals, boards, leaders, and all other manner of decision makers. Whitmore has been with KMH Inc. since its incorporation 15 years ago. That time, and his many years on Fish and Game advisory boards, has taught him a thing or two about common ground. For starters, it’s sometimes hard to find. But not impossible. While local governments and nonprofits may sometimes find themselves at loggerheads, Whitmore believes a persistent search for common ground and quality communication can pull down fences. That’s why he’s stuck around for so long.

“You find out that you can cause change to happen,” Whitmore said. “You can do positive things. And I think that motivates a lot of people in their pastimes and in their jobs. You see results. And you see positive changes and you watch people work together that have always been on opposite sides of the fence.”

As he seeks to fulfill KMH Inc.’s mission to support essential moose habitat, Whitmore said he and his fellow board members have found many ways to protect open spaces.

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And that doesn’t always mean purchasing land to protect in perpetuity. The organization does buy land, but it also accepts land donations, encourages other entities to earmark their land for open space, supports the land conservation efforts of other organizations, and keeps regular contact with private owners near or in essential habitat.

The KMH Inc. relationship with the land trust is equally diverse, as they explore ways to support their mutual interest in preserving open space. “As this has gone on we find ourselves having an unpredicted symbiotic relationship with the land trust,” Whitmore said, “because there’s properties that come available that they’re not comfortable with.” The two groups have mutually beneficial goals, but different parameters and restrictions. “More than one time the land trust has passed on a piece of property and we’ve acquired it,” Whitmore said. That being said, he added, the two organizations don’t compete for land or grants, they simply work alongside each other to cover more ground.

These efforts fit in with the piece-by-piece philosophy of habitat protection that KMH Inc. operates under. “If you wait and try to get that one big magic block, it’s impossible to do,” Whitmore said. This is why they aren’t fighting to buy up huge tracts of land, but gradually pursuing good opportunities at the right time and right place. “You try to get them in the general area, then slowly you pick up the pieces around it,” Whitmore said, “and then the puzzle fits together and you have a large enough block to have an impact on winter moose habitat.”

KMH Inc. focuses on land that provides essential feeding, travel and quiet zones for the Kenai Peninsula’s moose population.

They outright own more than 1,000 acres in the Homer/Anchor River area. “We direct a lot of our interest around the Beluga wetlands because that’s the remaining cover for our moose herd, for the Homer Bench Herd,” Whitmore said. “And the Anchor River bottom because that’s a migration corridor.” When it comes to making that a reality, a little flexibility on how land is set aside comes in handy, he said, especially when it comes to establishing a tradition of habitat protection.

“When you are in this business and you want to set a precedent,” Whitmore said, “you try to set an easy precedent. And not push and fight and beat somebody up. Doing that doesn’t get you very far.” Whitmore can list examples of how honest and amicable conversation has led to real and lasting land protection in these vital areas. These conversations — whether with borough managers, private landowners, or nonprofit leaders — foster relationships that lead to positive change, one way or another.

“We don’t need to own property,” Whitmore said, “if it gets put in habitat by the borough then I’m happy.” In a stretch of prime habitat in the Anchor River bottom, he said, land parcels owned

by KMH Inc., the Department of Natural Resources, and the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust together make up a tract of land that is very valuable to the local moose. The wildlife don’t seem to care that it’s owned by several different entities, so neither does Whitmore. If it feeds the moose, and has some promise of longevity, he’s pleased.

The land trust and KMH Inc. are able to work together in other ways.

“We’ve hired the land trust to administer fish and wildlife grants, because I have no staff,” Whitmore said. “So if we have a big project like that we’ll work through them.”

KMH Inc. has also supported various land trust efforts, such as funding to print educational booklets about moose and habitat.

“This is the only way I know of keeping our moose around,” Whitmore said of his work with KMH Inc. “If you live here for the natural beauty of wildlife and land,“ he said, “for the fish and the meat and the natural resources abounding in our Alaskan life, then it makes sense to expend time and effort to protect it. ‘Why do you live here?’ Think about that,” he said. His own answers are many, and are most often linked closely with the natural world. “Well, it’s that view,” he said. “And how about the wildlife? I had to stop and stare at a coyote on the beach road this morning on the way in here.

There’s moose around there, and he’s down there trying to scratch a living out just like the rest of us. And that’s why I live here. I like that stuff.”

But in the face of development and consumption and climate change, those things we so highly value are not thriving on their own. “There’s not a resource up here that’s building. What resource is growing here?” Whitmore asked. “None that I know of. From far out west in the deep ocean to the steamer clams in Kachemak Bay.” There are, however, people and organizations that seek to chip away at the umbrella effort to protect land, to find common ground for thriving. On this peninsula, in this time and moment in space, Kachemak Moose Habitat, Inc. and the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust are doing that side by side. 

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Wilson’s Warbler photo © George Matz

xecutive Director Marie McCarty participated in the Land Trust Alliance’s Excellence in Leadership program in 2010 along with twenty other executive directors in the West. At that time she didn’t know that KHLT and the Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas, based in Salida, Colorado, would be working in close partnership on a landscape scale project to preserve bird habitat.

bird conservation goals. With these funds, KHLT and LTUA planned a meeting in Salt Lake City the day after the national land conservation conference. This meeting brought together land trusts from Alaska, Colorado, California, Idaho, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming along with representatives of both Joint Ventures, Partners in Flight, Audubon, and the Land Trust Alliance.

After a series of intensive leadership trainings, Andrew Mackie, Executive Director of Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas (LTUA) and Marie discussed how land trusts in the West could collaborate with bird conservation organizations to have a significant impact on whole life conservation of birds. From these conversations, Wings over Western Waters developed.

The project’s goal is to “help local land trusts with the science and planning needed to identify key species and habitats for protection, to form useful partnerships with bird conservation organizations, to contribute towards large-scale conservation initiatives, and to bring in ‘big’ funding to help local land trusts complete projects,” said Andrew Mackie.

Kachemak Heritage Land Trust received grant funds from the Pacific Coast Joint Venture and LTUA received planning grants from the Intermountain West Joint Venture. The Joint Ventures are geographically based partnerships designed to carry out

This project is in its infancy, but is a part of KHLT’s increased collaborative work intended to leverage the work of others to provide a larger conservation impact in the Western U.S. 

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July–August Wild Arts Wild Arts is returning by popular demand. KHLT is offering 3-mini workshops featuring area artists who intend to . . .

“Bring Out Your Wild Side!”

Artists, dates and times are to be announced.

Be sure to check-in on our website and Facebook page for updates! www.KachemakLandTrust.org www.Facebook.com/KachemakHeritageLandTrust

Possible Article?

Wild Arts 2012, Halibut Cove photo © Jessica Ryan

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Creating

a Legacy

WILLS AND BEQUESTS A will enables you to designate all or a portion of your assets as a gift to one or more charities. Such gifts can be made through a new will or through an amendment to your existing will.

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You specify the exact amount of cash, property (real estate or tangible personal property), or other assets such as securities that you wish Kachemak Heritage Land Trust to receive.

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onations of land and conservation easements are the most visible type of gift that we receive. But there are also many other types of gifts that can help be a part of your conservation legacy.

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An unrestricted bequest allows your donation to be used where it is most needed.

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Bequest of Specific Assets I give and bequeath to Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, a non-profit organization (Tax ID # 94-3104608), with a principal business address of 315 Klondike Ave, Homer, AK 99603, for its general purposes, ____________________ (e.g. a home, acreage, stocks, jewelry, artwork). Include specific details about the assets for clear identification.

Retirement Plans You can name Kachemak Heritage Land Trust as a beneficiary or contingent beneficiary of your retirement plan.

Restricted Bequest I give and bequeath to Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, a non-profit organization (Tax ID # 94-3104608), with a principal business address of 315 Klondike Ave, Homer, AK 99603, the sum of ____ dollars ($___) - OR - __% of my residuary estate to support ______________ (e.g. land acquisition, trail maintenance, historic preservation).

Contingent Bequest or Devise You may leave part or all of your estate to KHLT contingent on certain conditions, such as other named beneficiaries not surviving you.

EXAMPLES OF TESTAMENTARY LANGUAGE

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Residuary Bequest or Devise A residuary bequest allows you to leave all or a percentage of the remainder of your estate to KHLT after specific bequests, debts, taxes, and estate expenses have been paid.

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I give and bequeath to Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, a non-profit organization (Tax ID # 94-3104608), with a principal business address of 315 Klondike Ave, Homer, AK 99603, for its general purposes, the sum of ____ Dollars ($____) - OR - __% of my residuary estate.

Specific Bequest or Devise of Property

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Life Insurance You can designate Kachemak Heritage Land Trust as the owner or beneficiary of a life insurance policy.

TAX BENEFITS The giving of larger gifts like these involves a number of important decisions, many of which may be based on tax incentives as well as family considerations and philanthropic goals. Kachemak Heritage Land Trust is unable to offer tax or other legal advice. For more information about giving options, we strongly recommend that you consult your attorney and your tax or financial advisors. With careful planning, you can maximize your family’s financial benefits while creating a meaningful legacy through Kachemak Heritage Land Trust. 

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The Kachemak Bay Water Trail

By Dave Brann, Kachemak Bay Water Trail Steering Committee Co-Chair

The Adventure Beyond the End of the Road Continues . . . »» Boating, Paddling, Sailing Trips are Being Planned »» A Website is in the Works »» Site Information is Being Compiled in a Database »» Research Needs are Being Defined »» Educational Forums for the Public are Scheduled »» Support is Growing

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he Kachemak Bay Water Trail Steering Committee has been working hard all winter towards the VISION of creating “A 125-mile water trail that inspires exploration, understanding, and stewardship of the natural treasure that is Kachemak Bay.” The Kachemak Bay Water Trail is a proposed boat route from Homer, around the bay to Seldovia that will provide scenic, fun, educational and / or challenging experiences for recreational boaters. Motorized and non-motorized recreationists will find boat launches, mooring buoys, trailheads and overnight facilities-campsites to lodges-along the way.

Although it is anticipated that once established, some people will want to explore the whole water trail from end to end in one grand adventure, we expect most will utilize the identified Water Trail sites to plan more modest 2-3 day trips as they explore the shores of Kachemak Bay. Water taxis make it possible for boaters to enjoy sections of the Water Trail without having to paddle across the bay to get to a starting point.

Suggested itineraries are being developed but half the fun of any adventure is planning your own route. The steering committee is working to compile information that will make planning your trip on the water trail easier.

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We do want to point out that the Water Trail is about more than just being on the water; it is about learning, understanding and caring for Kachemak Bay. It is about being safe on the water, establishing an ethic that respects the resident that live in the waters of Kachemak Bay and on the land along its shores. It is about celebrating that sense of wonder which comes from watching the great migrations of birds and fish and whales.

A sign that many of you may have seen declares, “Great Trails Don’t Just Happen”. So it is with the Kachemak Bay Water Trail;, it won’t “just happen”, it will require huge amounts of work. 

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We, the Kachemak Bay Water Trail Steering Committee encourage and invite you to join us in making this a great trail.

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Find us on Facebook (Kachemak Bay Water Trail) or contact us: Dave Brann PO Box 729 Homer, Alaska 99603 kbwt@homeralaska.org (907) 235-6018

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Thank to our Business Members »» 2-2 Tango

»» Law Office of Daniel

»» Alaska Rivers Company

$3,000 – Summer Intern Program

Westerburg

»» Alaska Wildland Adventures, »» Law Offices of Haas &

Inc

Spigelmyer

»» Alderfer Group

»» Loopy Lupine Distribution,

»» Applied Archaeology

LLC

International

»» Magic Canyon Ranch B & B

»» Bay Realty, Inc.

»» Marine Services of AK, Inc.

»» Best Western Bidarka Inn

»» Moose Run Metalsmiths

»» Bobcat Services

»» North Wind Trade Collection

»» Chihuly’s Charters

»» Oasis Environmental, Inc/

»» Cosmic Kitchen, Inc.

We Need Your Help Immediately!

Help fund our summer intern program and enable a summer intern a chance to gain hands-on experience with land management and non-profit operations. The funding helps pay an intern gain real life experience and help KHLT expand its capacity to save and steward more special places. We are proud that several of our former interns are working in land trusts across the U.S.

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»» Derry & Associates

»» Seaman’s Adventures

»» Eayrs Plumbing & Heating

»» Seaside Farms

»» Era Aviation

»» SeaULater Charters Alaska

»» Hallo Bay Wilderness Camp

»» Seldovia Bay Ferry

»» Homer Run Oil

»» Smokey Bay Air

»» Homer Air Services

»» Spenard Builders Supply

»» Homer Electric Association

»» Wild North Photography

»» Homer Saw & Cycle

»» Wilderness Garden Day Spa

»» Homer Theater »» Homer Veterinary Clinic

$1900 – KHLT Signs / Match to USFWS Grant

Every time you drive down the roads on the Kenai Peninsula, we want you to see our classy signs signaling saved land.

These signs elevate our profile in the community and therefore increase support for future land-saving success.

»» Jay-Brant General

Constructors

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»» Kachemak Bay Ferry, Inc.

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HIGHLIGHTS

Effler Trail Plans A Legacy Gift We’re Almost There . . .

Upcoming Events

Thank to our Project Funders

»» Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund »» Peoples Garden through Homer Soil & Water Conservation »» HDR Inc. »» Kachemak Bay Conservation Society »» Norcross Foundation »» Pacific Coast Joint Venture »» Pikes Peak Community Foundation »» Rasmuson Foundation »» The Bullitt Foundation »» The City of Homer, through the Homer Foundation »» The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County »» The Homer Foundation »» The Vanguard Foundation

Drying Wetlands Anchor River Project 2012 Successes Salmon in the Hills

HIGHLIGHTS

Summer Intern Completes Computer Mapping Project A Carpenter’s Appreciation of Victor Holm

$1600 – Fall Newsletter

KHLT’s color newsletters are conversation pieces with their striking photos and inspiring stories. Help us keep this key outreach tool on everyone’s desk, dashboard and kitchen table.

If one of these items strikes your fancy, please let us know by: • Emailing KHLT sheryl@kachemaklandtrust.org • Calling (907) 235-5263 Thank you for your support to help us save more places special to you. 

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Preserving, for public benefit, land on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula with significant natural, recreational, or cultural values by working with willing landowners.

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Opportunities to Volunteer with KHLT

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olunteers are vital to the success of non-profit organizations. You can make a big difference to our efficiency by donating just a few hours a month to Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, and enjoy the satisfaction of being actively involved in your land trust.

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Rebuild the small KHLT garden greenhouse Build a raised bed Build our compost bin Build a lasagna garden raised bed

GARDENING • Weed a portion of the garden • Help plant the garden

POST FLYERS Comerford Property photo © KHLT

You can help KHLT get the word out about upcoming events by posting flyers around town. Posting locations can be divided into two or three separate areas for ease of distribution by car, bike, or foot.