National Public Lands Day 2008
Sourdough Creek Campground Trail Rehabilitation
Saturday, July 26 2008 

Come help us rehabilitate the Sourdough Creek Trail and camp with us for free at the Sourdough Creek Campground, July 26, 2008 for a National Public Lands Day celebration!  Volunteers will help brush the trail, spread gravel, and pull invasive weeds.  Leave No Trace camping techniques will be provided by Wrangell Institute for Science and the Environment.  Campers who set up their campsites and utilize these techniques can win awards and prizes.  Boat launch safety and ettiquette skits, life jacket relays, an evening barbecue and songs around the campfire are all just part of the fun.  Kids aged 1 - 100 are welcome!  For more information or to partner for this event contact Marnie Graham at 907-822-3217.

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.”