Join BLM for the 2009 National Public Lands Day Tiekel Area Clean-up

Join the Bureau of Land Management in celebrating National Public Lands Day on Saturday, September 26 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Tiekel Area at Mile 56.7 on the Richardson Highway. Volunteers will be removing trash and debris from public land. Food and beverages will be provided. Participants are advised to wear mud boots and to dress appropriately for the weather as you take it outside and become a helping hand on America’s public lands! For more information and to sign up early call the BLM Glennallen Field Office at 822-3217.

National Public Lands Day 2008
Sourdough Creek Campground Trail Rehabilitation

Volunteers helped to rehabilitate the Sourdough Creek Campground Trail on July 26, 2008 for a National Public Lands Day celebration!  Volunteers brushed the trail, spread gravel, and pulled invasive weeds.  Leave No Trace camping techniques were taught by Wrangell Institute for Science and the Environment.  Campers that set up their campsites and utilized these techniques won awards and prizes.  Boat launch safety and ettiquette skits, life jacket relays, and an evening barbecue were just part of the fun.  

Denali Highway 50th Anniversary

National Public Lands Day Clean-up

More than 120 volunteers from as far away as the Netherlands collected 12 pick-up loads of trash, tires, and scrap metal in the 50^th anniversary clean-up of the Denali Highway Saturday, July 28, 2007 for National Public Lands Day. 

The Delta Junction Boy Scouts removed nearly 30 tires from beside the Maclaren River as a conservation service project while bicycling the highway. 

The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Solid Waste Division and Alaskans for Litter Prevention and Recycling provided trash collection facilities, services, and bags.  Denali Highway businesses and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provided sign-up locations and support for volunteers for the length of the highway.  

A Barbecue and awards ceremony were held at the Maclaren Lodge (half-way point) to wrap up the event and thank volunteers for “putting helping hands on America’s lands.”