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News Archives
28 Aug 98 - Plans for Coming Year (1999)
9 May 98- Spit Shorebird Habitat Dedication and Festivities
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust is very pleased to announce the successful completion of a project to acquire and permanently preserve 63 acres of Homer Spit intertidal shorebird habitat and 40 acres of important Beluga Slough uplands and wetlands.On Saturday, May 9th, Kachemak Heritage Land Trust Executive Director Barbara Seaman was joined by Chris Rogers from the Trust for Public Land, Molly McCammon, Executive Director of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council and staff member Eric Meyer, Homer Mayor Jack Cushing and City Councilman Kurt Marquardt, US Department of Fish and Wildlife's Alaska National Maritime Wildlife Refuge representatives John Martin and Poppy Benson, Alaska Audubon Society's John Schoen, Kachemak Heritage Land Trust board members and other supporters of this effort to dedicate these protected properties.
On Saturday evening, as part of the Shorebird Festival's keynote presentation, special guest speaker and world-renowned seabird authority Peter Harrison praised this effort as visionary and explained how important the preservation of such places are to so many species' survival. Barbara Seaman, Poppy Benson, Mayor Cushing and City Planning Director Eileen Bechtol were presented with awards of appreciation for their "efforts to protect land for habitat conservation, recreation and quality of life" by the Trust for Public Land. "I feel very honored to receive this award, and even more delighted to have helped to secure preservation of this valuable land for the good of our local economy and for use and enjoyment by future generations of both humans and wildlife."