Leask Users Coalition
Ketchikan, Alaska

Lands Coordinator:
Carrie Dolwick
(907) 247-5847
Co-Chairman Jack Lee:
(907)247-8156
or Co-Chairman Bill Rotecki
(907)247-8189
coordinator@leasklakes.org
webmaster: Island Web

Present LUC Status

The Leask Users Coalition is partnering with the Southeast Alaska Land Trust, the Cape Fox Corporation and the Ketchikan Gateway Borough to buy a 1,065 acre conservation easement at Leask Lakes. We have received two resolutions of support from the Ketchikan Gateway borough and have invested 3 years and ver $165,000 worth of volunteer hours and grant monies into the Leask Lakes project.

Goals of the Leask Lakes Conservation Easement proposal:

  • allow public access near the lakes and creek
  • provide a network of trail corridors connecting Lunch Creek, Lake Harriet Hunt, Wolf Lakes, the Naha, Leask Lakes, and the George Inlet
  • provide roaded recreation opportunities such as camping, hunting, fishing, hiking, bird watching, and canoeing
  • retain sockeye salmon, steelhead, Dolly Varden, and Cutthroat Trout habitat;
  • protect critical deer winter range
  • conserve wetlands for migratory waterfowl

The Leask Users Coalition has advanced to the national level for the Forest Legacy Program (FLP) and has applied for the Coastal and Estuarine Land Conservation Program (CELCP) to fund the acquisition of the easement.

Leask Lakes Development Status


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The Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office (TLO), awarded the Leask Lakes timber sale to Alcan Forest Products in February of 2005. Alcan has plans to log this are over the next 5 years. Currently, contractors are building roads and have logged near the southeast area of the creek.

Leask Users Coalition continues to work with partners on buying a conservation easement around the two lakes and creek. The proposed easement is outlined in yellow on the adjacent map.

Buying a conservation easement will compensate the landowner and the operator for any loss of value to them. The easement will define what activities are allowable on the property and extend public access to this area.

 

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