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IN THIS ISSUE:

KHLT Welcomes Three New Board Members

Acreage Added toGill Conservation Easement

New 80-Acre Conservation Easement

Are KHLT Properties and Conservation EasementsOpen to the Public?

What Does an Estuary Mean to Juvenile Salmon?

Understanding Conservation Easements

Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership

Creating a Conservation Legacy

SPRING/SUMMER

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“When I see birches bend to left and right…I like to think some boy’s been swinging in them.”

- Robert Frost

My firstborn, Jason, begins college this fall. I hope that he has the tools

to be successful as he fledges from our Fritz Creek home into the adult world. His childhood world is a jackstrawed spruce forest dotted with new growth, populated by moose and bear, and strewn with pushki stalks transformed into swords by years of neighborhood kids. His current backdrop is so different from his future East Coast college. I hope that our spectacular landscape travels with him as his muse. I mention my son because he’s on my mind more than ever lately, and because I’ve been considering what impact we have on growing the next generation of people to steward those special spots close to home. What is our responsibility to them? In working with the Holmes family on our most recent conservation easement, I was honored to watch this family’s deep commitment to conservation. Ulla’s commitment to preserving her beautiful family land, and her three sons’ joint efforts toward the future stewardship of their land, is a great example of a mother’s vision being implemented with her family’s support.

Ulla’s children clearly share her values about stewarding land. Stewardship is the bottom line for Kachemak Heritage Land Trust. From the moment we accept property, we have agreed to steward that property forever. Our board and staff continually review the land trust community’s best practices to ensure that we can meet the associated large and ongoing financial obligations. I am proud of our work in this area, and in the land trust community’s increasingly sophisticated tools to ensure that we have enough money and trained staff and board to fulfill these perpetual obligations. As we complete our work this summer on the Calvin and Coyle trail, and we increase the footprint of the garden space dedicated to children growing food for the needy in our community, I hope that we’ve begun to visibly model our organization’s values about land stewardship. I believe that modeling this behavior helps each of us to carry this place in our hearts wherever we go. As a mother, I trust that my son will bring his understanding of land stewardship to his new community. On a completely different note, I’m excited to introduce you to a new column we hope to feature in each issue of Landmarks. To help us better interpret what’s happening in the natural world around us, we will ask guest authors to write columns in their particular areas of expertise. Some of these columns will address specific scientific topics, like Tammy Hoem’s article on coho salmon smolt in lower Kenai Peninsula estuaries, and some will be more philosophical. Thanks, Tammy, for our first such column. I hope that all of you enjoy it.

Marie McCartyExecutive Director

Director’s Column

Marie McCartyEXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

KHLT Board MembersDotti Harness-Foster, President John Mouw, Vice PresidentLarsen Klingel, TreasurerScott Connelly, SecretaryMarian BeckRachel LordSam MeansJessica RyanShirley Schollenberg

KHLT StaffMarie McCarty, Executive DirectorDorothy Melambianakis, Conservation DirectorNina Daley, Development AssistantSheryl Ohlsen, Accounting Manager

KHLT Contact InformationKachemak Heritage Land Trust315 Klondike AvenueHomer, AK 99603(907) 235-5263 | (907) 235-1503 (fax)www.KachemakLandTrust.org

CreditsCover Photo | KHLT staffLayout Design | Debi Bodett

On the Cover

K achemak Heritage Land Trust fee-owned conservation property on the lower Kenai River, near the Kenai River Special Management Area.

C O N T E N T S 1 DIRECTOR’S COLUMN

2 KHLT WELCOMES THREE NEW BOARD MEMBERS

THANK YOU AND FAREWELL

3 WILDLIFE POND ADDED TO GILL CONSERVATION EASEMENT

NEW 80-ACRE CONSERVATION EASEMENT RECORDED

4 ARE KHLT PROPERTIES & CONSERVATION EASEMENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC?

5 WHAT DOES AN ESTUARY MEAN TO JUVENILE SALMON?

7 UNDERSTANDING CONSERVATION EASEMENTS

8 KENAI PENINSULA FISH HABITAT PARTNERSHIP

CREATING A CONSERVATION LEGACY

9 KHLT LAUNCHING NEW WEBSITE

WHISKEY JACKS PLAY BENEFIT CONCERT FOR KHLT

10 FUNDERS/BUSINESS MEMBERS

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Retired state land manager Sam Means joined the

KHLT board last October. Sam worked as a land manager for the State of Alaska for thirty years. His most recent duties entailed managing legal and physical access across state land in accordance with state public land law and regulation. He also spent several years with the Municipal Lands Trustee Program, working with Village Councils and Native Village Corporations in unincorporated villages to negotiate the conveyance of lands for community purposes such as schools and clinics.

In his leisure time Sam enjoys restoring and maintaining the family 1930 Model A Ford, messing around in his workshop, building woodworking tools and equipment, and trying to become a better birder.

Jessica Ryan has a BS in Environmental Biology

from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Master’s degree in Northern Studies from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She is employed as an Education Coordinator for the Alaska Department of Fish & Game at the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve in Homer. Her prior experience

includes working at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks as a science writer and curriculum developer; Executive Director of the Fairbanks-based Creamer’s Field Nature Center; and Education Director at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward. Jessica joined the KHLT board in February 2010.

Jessica’s hobbies include gardening, kayaking, birding, skiing, and cooking for friends.

Originally from Maine, Rachel Lord moved

to Alaska in 2005 for her MS degree at University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Wildlife Biology. She received a BA in Biology & Spanish from Mount Holyoke College, and spent several years working as a field biologist in the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Argentina before returning to school. Rachel moved to Homer in early 2008 to work with the International Pacific Halibut Commission for a season. She began her current position as the Outreach & Monitoring Coordinator at Cook Inletkeeper in November 2008, and became KHLT’s newest board member in April 2010.

In addition to work, Rachel coaches the Homer High Cross Country Running team in the fall, is a member of the Homer Garden Club and the Kachemak Nordic Ski Club, and has three dogs at home.

Thank You and Farewell

We would like to take a moment to thank our long time

mentor, friend and supporter, Dr. Roger Pearson, for his contribution to Kachemak Heritage Land Trust during nine years of service on the KHLT Board of Directors.

A Senior Fellow at the Institute of the North, Roger has dedicated much of his professional life to the study and teaching of Alaska’s unique and varied geography. His thoughtful manner, and extensive practical and professional experiences, contributed greatly to the ability of KHLT to grow and continue to fulfill its mission over the past decade.

Thank you, Roger, for the gift of your time and effort to assist KHLT become an organization that we are all proud of.

KHLT Welcomes Three New Board Members

Sam Means

Jessica Ryan

Rachel Lord

Roger Pearson

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New 80-Acre Conservation Easement Recorded

K achemak Heritage Land Trust is pleased to have completed its 25th conservation easement in December 2009,

protecting 80 acres of the Ulla Holmes property, located past the end of East Skyline Drive outside Homer. This property is adjacent to a 150-acre conservation easement property owned by Edgar Bailey and Nina Faust, which is part of the privately owned Inspiration Ridge Preserve they have spent over a decade establishing on the outskirts of Homer.

The Holmes property lies one quarter mile from the Anchor River and Fritz Creek Critical Habitat Area, and is also near other conservation parcels owned by Edgar Bailey and Nina Faust, making this property a valuable addition to the wildlife corridor between the Fritz Creek drainage and the Homer Bluff. The Critical Habitat Area was established by the State to protect natural habitat important to the survival of fish and wildlife, especially moose. Two of the most important moose ranges on the southern Kenai Peninsula are within the boundaries of the Critical Habitat Area. The Holmes property preserved by this conservation easement consists of the northern 80 acres of a 160-acre parcel, originally homesteaded by Gertie and Francis “Andy” Andersen in 1954. Ulla Holmes, of California, worked closely with her three adult sons Lasse, of Homer, Jens, and Nicholas, and Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, to craft a conservation easement to preserve this spectacular property that they call the “Andersen Holmestead”, paying tribute to the original homesteaders and their family surname.

Lasse Holmes said, “Thank you [KHLT] for listening and being responsive. It was a pleasure to partake on this with you.”

KHLT Executive Director Marie McCarty said, “Working with the Holmes family on this most recent conservation easement project has been a great pleasure. It was an honor for our board and staff to work with the close-knit Holmes family as they strived to protect this special area. The protection of this property is significant to us as it continues our work under our Kenai Peninsula Landscape Connectivity Project where we strive to expand protected areas by focusing our efforts on land preservation projects adjacent to land already preserved by federal, state, borough or non-profit entities.

The Kenai Peninsula Landscape Connectivity Project, which we also call ‘Connect the Dots’, is significant both because it preserves a wildlife movement corridor forever, and because it also preserves many of the conservation values we seek in all our land protection

Wildlife Pond Added to Gill Conservation Easement

“It’s really about stewardship. It’s about taking your rewards from more than money. Homer needs to look carefully at the open

places left in this area and act to preserve them NOW! Seems to me the beauty of Alaska should inspire folks to make their best

effort when they add their signature to the land. We need to use this land in a thoughtful way, striving to enhance the beauty that

brought us all here to the end of the road.” – Shelley Gill

I n 1999, Shelley Gill, a local author of 14 books that have sold over a million copies, placed a conservation easement with

KHLT on 77 acres of her spectacular Diamond Ridge property. She also owned an adjacent 32 acres encompassing her home, stable and pastureland.

Under the guidance of the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Wildlife Habitat Improvement Program, Shelley had a wildlife pond constructed on her residential property in 2001 to provide habitat for migratory waterfowl and maximum brooding, nesting, and rearing habitat for ducks and geese, and as a stopover site for sandhill cranes.

Shelley wanted to ensure preservation of the wildlife pond, and approached KHLT about adding the acreage around the pond to her conservation easement, as well as tightening some restrictions already in place. During this process, Shelley sold the property to an adjacent landowner, Bill Negro, who recently signed the document adding this acreage to the conservation easement, completing the transaction.

Many thanks to both Shelley Gill and Bill Negro for having the foresight to add this spectacular pond to this beautiful conservation property!

Shelley Gill at her conserved property photo © Wild North Photography

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projects - open space, natural vegetation and wetlands. Working with families like Ulla Holmes’, and partnering with landowners like Ed and Nina, is a wonderful way to supplement the conservation efforts of government agency and non-profit organizations.”

The Inspiration Ridge Preserve, owned by Edgar Bailey and Nina Faust, comprises over 600 acres, nearly 500 of which are currently protected by conservation easements held by KHLT.

Edgar Bailey and Nina Faust said, “Putting our lands into conservation easements has been a long term process toward our ultimate goal of permanently protecting a wildlife corridor from the Fritz Creek Critical Habitat Area to the Homer bluffs. Working with the Nature Conservancy, the Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, the State, and the Borough has been essential to link up parts of the corridor. We have had a vision of other like-minded property owners joining the effort to set aside portions of their land as habitat to expand the corridor before it is too late and the land is subdivided. Placing our lands in conservation easements has been an ongoing project for over ten years. We have completed six so far, with several more to go. The easement process has helped us be much more intimately informed about the habitat of each parcel and has been an interesting process of figuring out exactly what restrictions we wanted on the land to protect the habitat. One of the great things about the easement process is that we decide what rights we want to retain and which we are willing to relinquish. Overall, we have not given up anything that we would not have done anyway since our goal is habitat and wildlife protection. So in the end, we worked it so that each easement has a small house site with some restrictions, and the rest is protected habitat thereby maximizing the size of the protected corridor. The Land Trust has been extremely helpful in providing technical advice and support to get all the paperwork done, but doing the bulk of the work ourselves has been extremely satisfying.”

Are KHLT Properties and Conservation Easements Open to the Public?

G ood question! Kachemak Heritage Land Trust manages property for conservation by owning property outright

and by enforcing the terms of conservation easements on private property. In all cases, KHLT protects the property’s conservation values, such as preserving open space, wildlife habitat, or watershed integrity. While these conservation measures provide public benefit, the properties themselves are not always open for public access.

Conservation EasementsVery few conservation easements allow for public access, and when they do, it is at the property owner’s discretion. Always request permission from the landowner before entering private property.

Properties that KHLT OwnsKHLT owns certain properties for which it allows and encourages public use, such as the Calvin and Coyle Nature Trail, but others are held primarily for conservation of wildlife habitat or preservation of the natural environment. Most properties that we own are managed to allow a mixture of scientific, educational, and recreational uses, so while public access or use is not prohibited, it may be restricted to the extent needed to protect the conservation values of the property.

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Anchor River and Fritz Creek State Critical Habitat Area

KHLT Protected Property

Homes Conservation Easement

The Holmes Family photo © KHLT staff

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photos © Tammy Hoem and Michelle Gutsch, Kachemak Bay Research Reserve

S cientists Coowe Walker from the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve and Tammy Hoem, from the University of Alaska

Fairbanks, are leading investigations of how juvenile salmon use estuary habitats in the Anchor and Fox Rivers in south-central Alaska. The idea of this work is that juvenile salmon that use the many different habitats in estuaries will show a wide range of traits such as body size, age structure, and body fat when they enter the ocean. We expect that a greater range of environmental conditions such as salinity, temperature, and the frequency of tidal flooding will cause a wider range in salmon traits of the fish that use these habitats. A wide range of traits in juvenile salmon entering the ocean is important to their survival in the ocean because ocean conditions change from year to year. So a population of salmon that has a wider range of traits will be better equipped to survive through the year to

year changes in the environment. Understanding the role that estuary habitats play in the development of these traits will help people be better stewards of estuaries, and to develop policies to help salmon populations persist through climatic changes.

Coowe and Tammy began investigating the estuaries of the Fox and Anchor rivers during the summer of 2009. Fish were captured every other week using 20-foot beach seine nets to capture fish. Data was collected for the habitat conditions including temperature, salinity, and depth. Captured fish were identified, counted and measured. This work revealed several interesting clues about how juvenile salmon use these estuaries. For example, we learned that juvenile salmon were present in the estuaries far longer than anyone had thought: juvenile salmon were previously thought to be gone from the estuaries

What Does an Estuary Meanto Juvenile Salmon?

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Salmon smolt

Tammy Hoem, Graduate Research FellowKachemak Bay Research Reserve

by the end of July, but we continued to find young salmon all the way through September. We will continue investigations in 2010, beginning in late April. This year, we will collect data examining the influence of environmental conditions such as the range of salinities and temperatures encountered within estuary channels on juvenile salmon size, body fat, and age. We will compare these conditions and traits between two very different estuaries: the Fox River and the Anchor River.

We chose to compare these estuaries because they contain very different environments that could result in differences in salmon run timing, abundance, fish size, and age structure of the populations that use them. The Fox River estuary is a large glacier and snow-melt fed system with numerous estuarine habitats and two peak stream flow events each year. This

contrasts sharply with the Anchor River estuary, which is a substantially smaller snow-melt and spring fed system with a single peak flow event each year.

As you enjoy the summer this year, remember that there are probably hundreds of young salmon moving through the estuaries of river mouths. Wish them well as they journey on their way from the river they were born in to the ocean.

Tammy Hoem, Graduate Research FellowKachemak Bay Research Reserve

Biologists with the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve at work studying coho salmon smolt in the Fox River estuary

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K achemak Heritage Land Trust preserves, for public benefit, land on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula with significant

natural, recreational, or cultural values by working with willing landowners. Property owners have worked with KHLT to voluntarily protect the conservation values of their river frontage, farms, wildlife habitat, wetlands, and historic property – land parcels of varying size and type with special ecological, historic, cultural, recreational, or open space value.

Landowners choose from a variety of permanent conservation methods. The property may stay in private ownership and use, or it may be transferred to the land trust. In every case, the way in which the property is protected depends upon the wishes of the landowner and the inherent conservation values of the property.

A conservation easement is the most complex land protection method used by Kachemak Heritage Land Trust. A conservation easement is a voluntary legal agreement between a landowner and KHLT that restricts certain types of development or uses to preserve the conservation values of the property. Landowners grant conservation easements to protect their land from incompatible development while retaining ownership.

The terms of each easement agreement are tailored to the particular property and the individual owner’s wishes. Specific prohibited uses and reserved rights are detailed in the easement document, and the landowner conveys to Kachemak Heritage Land Trust the responsibility to monitor and enforce the easement’s terms. The conservation easement is binding on all future owners of the property. Provisions of the easement agreement address issues such as subdivision, construction, timber harvest, or maintenance of native vegetation, for example.

KHLT is obligated to ensure that its land protection programs result in real public benefits and that the land protection responsibilities assumed in perpetuity can be carried out. Every potential project must be evaluated with great care, to verify conformance to specific selection criteria.

Eagle nest on KHLT fee-owned property photo © KHLT staff

Tax ConsiderationsA landowner may receive significant income tax benefits for donating a conservation easement. The property must meet Internal Revenue Service requirements defining conservation purposes. It is important to discuss potential financial benefits with an attorney and/or tax advisor, as each landowner’s situation is unique. KHLT is unable to offer specific tax or other legal advice.

Other KHLT Land TransactionsKachemak Heritage Land Trust also accepts outright donations of conservation land and, in rare cases, bargain sales of conservation land. A landowner may also donate property that does not meet KHLT’s selection criteria for conservation purposes, with the understanding that such property, known as trade land, will be sold and the proceeds used to support KHLT’s conservation programs. For more information about KHLT land transactions, please contact Dorothy at 235-5263, or Dorothy@KachemakLandTrust.org.

Understanding Conservation Easements

Edgar Bailey & Nina Faust conservation easement property photo © Wild North Photography

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Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership

The Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership (KPFHP) is a cooperative effort to protect, maintain, restore and enhance

our area’s’ fish habitat, for future generations to have healthy, sustainable fish aquatic ecosystems. The KPFHP is one of sixteen federally recognized partnerships developed concurrently with the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, which is designed to raise awareness of fish initiatives, assign priorities and generate annual congressional support to improve fish habitat.

Kachemak Heritage Land Trust is a partner in the KPFHP, and KHLT’s executive director, Marie McCarty, has a seat on the nine-member steering committee. The geographic scope of KPFHP closely follows the boundaries of the Kenai Peninsula Borough. There are similar partnerships in the Mat-Su and in Southwest Alaska.

Fish Habitat Action Plan partnerships are: » Non-regulatory and voluntary » Locally and regionally based, driven by grassroots partners » Focused on protection, restoration and enhancement in key

watersheds » Science based » Linked nationally » Sustainable and accountable » Non-allocative

KHLT is one of many organizations in the Kenai Peninsula Fish Habitat Partnership, which includes federal, state, municipal, non-profit, and business entities.

Learn more about:

the KPFHP @ http://office.kenaiwatershed.org/KPFHP/

the National Fish Habitat Action Plan @ http://fishhabitat.org/

Creating a Conservation Legacy

Estate planning enables each of us to make a lasting statement about our values. With careful planning, you

can maximize your family’s financial benefits while creating a meaningful legacy through Kachemak Heritage Land Trust, ensuring that the next generation will enjoy places with special natural, recreational, and cultural values. There are many types of planned gifts that can help further our mission and be a part of your conservation legacy.

Wills and BequestsA will enables you to designate all or a portion of your assets as gifts to charitable organizations such as Kachemak Heritage Land Trust. Apportionment can be made in several ways. Such gifts may include real estate or tangible personal property, cash, or other assets such as securities.

Life Insurance and Retirement PlansYou can designate Kachemak Heritage Land Trust as the owner or beneficiary of a life insurance policy, or as a beneficiary or contingent beneficiary of your retirement plan.

Tax Benefits Planned giving involves important decisions that 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 planned giving options, we strongly recommend that you consult your attorney and your tax or financial advisors.

photo © KHLT staff

photo © KHLT staff

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Donate to KHLT Online

Making an online donation is simple and secure with the DonateNow button on our website at www.

KachemakLandTrust.org. Online donations are processed by Network for Good, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping other non-profits. You will receive an instant online receipt, as well as our acknowledgement, which you can opt to also receive via email, helping us to go green by reducing paper usage.

Tired of all the Paper Mail?

Please let us know if you would prefer to receive KHLT notices, appeals, and/or newsletters electronically. We are

happy to send everything via email, or to send some by email and others in paper form. Just let us know your preferences! Email Nina@KachemakLandTrust.org.

Whiskey Jacks Play Benefit Concert for KHLT

T he lively Anchorage band Whiskey Jacks returned to Homer during the annual Kachemak Bay Shorebird Festival to play

a benefit show for Kachemak Heritage Land Trust. Their foot-stomping Irish and Americana tunes packed Alice’s Champagne Palace, as they entertained the crowd till the wee hours.

All cover charge proceeds from the show went to KHLT. Many thanks to our Whiskey Jacks friends for lending their time and talents to help promote our conservation mission. Thanks also to Bay Realty for donating newspaper advertising for the show, and to Don Jose’s Restaurant for feeding the band!

KHLT Launching New Website

B y the time this newsletter reaches you, we may have launched our new website, with a fresh look and navigation

scheme, along with updated information.

We are indebted to Tom Collopy and Mary Frische of Wild North Photography, who are allowing us to use many of their beautiful photos to make the website pleasing to the eye. Their work has graced many of our past publications, and we appreciate their ongoing support of KHLT through sharing their talents for our benefit.

We also thank Debi Bodett of 33 Image Design for inspiring our new website’s color scheme and some of the other design features through her work on our outreach materials. Christi McGinley of BeauDesigns turned it all into a functioning website.

Check out our new website @

www.KachemakLandTrust.org

We hope that you will enjoy it and refer to it often.

Anchorage band, Whiskey Jacks © KHLT staff

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Our Work is Made Possible with the Help of Generous Funders:

» Alaska Conservation Foundation » Alaska State Historic Preservation Office » American Seafoods » Boulder Community Foundation » ConocoPhilllips » Land Trust Alliance » Norcross Foundation » Pacific Coast Joint Venture » Pikes Peak Community Foundation through the Webb

Family Fund » Resources Law Group » The City of Homer, through the Homer Foundation » The Homer Foundation » The National Trust for Historic Preservation » True North Foundation » The Vanguard Foundation » U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Coastal Program

Get Involved – Volunteer!

Volunteer opportunities abound at KHLT. We can use help in the office or the field, in our community garden, and at

our fun fundraising events. You can make a big difference by donating just a few hours a month, and enjoy the satisfaction of being actively involved in your land trust.

If you are interested in offering your knowledge and skills in any capacity to help further our mission of protecting land on the Kenai Peninsula, please call us at 235-5263 Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm, or email Nina@KachemakLandTrust.org.

Does Your Employer Match Charitable Contributions?

I f you work for a large or mid-sized corporation, your employer may offer matching donations for charitable

contributions. Please check with your corporate office to see if you could double your donation with an employer match!

Thank you to Our Valued Business Members

» Alaska Rivers Company » Alaska Timberframe Inc. » Alaska Wildland Adventures, Inc. » Alderfer Group » Bay Excursions LLC » Bay Realty Inc. » Best Western Bidarka Inn » Breeze Inn Hotel » Chihuly’s Charters » Derry & Associates » Era Aviation » Fritz Creek Gardens » F/V Anna Lane » F/V Kelsey » Gwartney Rentals » Haas and Spigelmyer » Home Run Oil » Homer Air Service » Homer Brewing Company » Homer Real Estate » Homer Veterinary Clinic » Homer’s Jeans » Jay-Brant General Contractors » Kachemak Bay Ferry, Inc. » Kachemak Bay Wilderness Lodge, Inc. » Kachemak Country Publications » Land’s End Resort » Latitude 59 » Law Office of Daniel Westerburg » Loopy Lupine Distribution LLC » Major Marine Tours » Marine Services of AK, Inc. » Moose Run Metalsmiths » MxGeo » Organic Hair Design » Seaman’s Adventures » Spenard Builders Supply » Sundog Consultants » The Saltry » Wild North Photography

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KHLT thanks all who made our 8th Annual Auction & 20th Anniversary Party in November a Great Success! Wasabi’s: beautiful venue, awesome food and staff

Gary Thomas: auctioneer extraordinaire

Superb Volunteers:Cathi Purington, Katie Schollenburg, and Mary Jane Shows Complimentary Advertising:Debra Leisek/Bay Realty & Angie Newby/Homer Real Estate

And thanks to all of our supporters who came out to share

in the fun and fundraising!

Auction Donors:2 - 2 Tango • Alaska Rivers Company • Alaska SeaLife Center • Alaska Wildland Adventures • Alyeska Tire & Auto Service • Angie Newby • Breeze Inn Hotel Captain’s Coffee • Dale Bondurant Estate • Dave Brann • Era Aviation • Gaye Wolfe • Homer Air Service • Homer Bookstore • Homer News • Homer Theatre • Homer Tribune • James & Brenda Dolma • Kachemak Bay Ferry • Karen Howarth • Kent Wood, for Karen Willows • Law Office of Daniel Westerburg • Major Marine Tours • Marian Beck • Masami Yoshioka • Moose Run Metalsmiths • Nancy Munro • Nina Faust & Ed Bailey • Organic Hair Design • Petro Express • Richard Purington • River City Books • Roger & Marlene Pearson • Sydney Bishop • Taz Tally • The Grog Shop • The Saltry • Toby Tyler • Toni Maury • Two Sisters Bakery • Upper Cut Salon • Wild North Photography