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Meals Hill Update

January 2024 In 2019, GLT facilitated the purchase and transfer of 184 acres of land to the City of Valdez to create the new Meals Hill Park. Since then, we have been coordinating with the City of Valdez and the planning and landscape architecture firm, Huddle AK, to create a master plan for the park and to complete the design and construction of initial site amenities to enhance the property and its recreation opportunities. In More

Legacy Circle Member Feature – Ken Taylor

July 2023 Past board member Ken Taylor shared some thoughts with us about his time with GLT and why he is a Legacy Circle member. Ken served on the Great Land Trust Board of Directors from 2007 to 2018. I was invited to join the Great Land Trust in 2007 and had the pleasure of serving on the board for eleven years with some of the finest and most intelligent people I’ve ever worked with. More

What it Means to Protect Land Forever

Read about how we are working to restore the Eklutna River Estuary conservation easement property after it sustained major damage, and how we uphold our commitments to the land forever.

Legacy Circle Member Feature – Dean Littlepage

To continue our series featuring Great Land Trust Legacy Circle members, we chatted with Dean Littlepage, one of GLT’s founding board members. Dean was co-organizer of the effort to create GLT, and GLT’s first board chair. Among other Alaska interests, he had a hand in establishing the Campbell Creek Science Center in Anchorage, worked as national historic trail lead for the Iditarod NHT, served as an exhibit organizer for the Anchorage Museum, and loved every More

A Morning At Tanglewood Park

Libby Kugel, Communications & Administration Manager On a brisk but sunny fall morning, I met Bowman Elementary School teachers Mike Still and Linda Hulen and their class of 5th and 6th grade students at the Tanglewood Park Boardwalk in South Anchorage. Frost lined the planks of the boardwalk and coated the trees and brush, reflecting the light of the rising sun to create a glow. As the students approached, I could hear their lively chatter More

Field Season Reflections

This summer, GLT was lucky to have Javier Acuna and Cooper Arend working as our seasonal Land Stewards. Both students at the University of Alaska Anchorage, their studies in environmental and biological sciences led them to explore the field of land conservation. As Land Stewards, they spent the summer visiting almost all of GLT’s conservation easements, traveling throughout Southcentral Alaska to bushwhack along rivers, walk muddy coastlines, tour homesteads, and even hike to the top More