
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust (KHLT) is a nonprofit organization
established in 1989 to preserve, for public benefit, land with
significant natural, recreational, or cultural values. Organized
initially in the Homer area, it now serves the entire Kenai Peninsula.
KHLT is one of 1200 land trusts throughout the country that works
with willing landowners to save wildlife habitat and open space through
cooperative voluntary action. Landowners choose from a variety of
protection tools, principally conservation easements. A conservation
easement is a legal agreement between a landowner and a land trust that
permanently limits certain types of development in order to protect
conservation values. Property under a conservation easement remains in
private ownership and use while the land trust ensures that the
development restrictions are honored forever. Land trusts also acquire
ownership of land in order to manage it for conservation or for public
educational or recreational opportunities.
KHLT was the first land trust in Alaska. There are now three more:
Great Land Trust in Anchorage, lnterior Land Trust in Fairbanks, and
Southeast Alaska Land Trust in Juneau.
Please contact us for help developing your property in ways that can
conserve habitat and wildlife, and for protecting lands for the future.
Kachemak Heritage Land Trust PO Box 2400, Homer, Alaska 99603
907-235-5263 http://www.kachemaklandtrust.org. |