YAK’ÉI YEE XWSATEENÍ
WELCOME.
MISSION, VISION, AND lAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
MISSION
The Southeast Alaska Land Trust collaborates with communities, individuals, and organizations throughout Southeast Alaska to help ensure that highly valued habitat, recreation, open space, and cultural and historic areas continue to thrive for the well-being of each generation.
In other words: we value the wilderness character of Southeast Alaska. We work with you to permanently protect the natural spaces you love, so human and animal communities can live woven into this magnificent, living land.
VISION
As our region prospers, its ecosystems, wildlife corridors, and watersheds will maintain their natural productivity and richness. The timeless, natural legacy of our land will be experienced by each generation of Southeast Alaskans.
Our community will continue to live in contact with nature, since conserving high valued, natural areas and providing access to them, is part of our culture. We will support community appreciation and understanding of our vibrant landscapes to encourage connection with the natural world. We will work collaboratively to conserve highly valued, natural areas that promote resiliency in the face of climate change and incremental development, and that conserve the natural heritage of our region.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Southeast Alaska Land Trust respectfully acknowledges the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people as original owners and inhabitants of Southeast Alaska. In our mission to help ensure that highly valued habitat, recreation, open space, and cultural and historic areas continue to thrive for the well-being of each generation, we strive to be consistent with and supportive of the stewardship of these lands by the Indigenous people of the region, recognizing that they have long cared for these lands and their living resources. Aatlein gunalchéesh*.
*Thank you very much, in Lingit
