What does NMWT need?
1. What is the NMWT Land Trust? The Nushagak-Mulchatna Wood-Tikchik Land Trust is dedicated to the preservation and protection of the environment, resources, and culture of a major portion of southwest Alaska. Established in 2000 out of concern about the rate at which landowners were selling lands in southwest Alaska, the Trust is incorporated in Alaska as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. 2. What geographic area does NMWT encompass? The region of interest to NMWT is vast, stretching over 250 miles from the headwaters of the Mulchatna River at the base of the Alaska Range in the east, Bristol Bay in the south, to the edge of the Bering Sea in the west. Within this 7 million-acre region are the major watersheds of the Nushagak, Wood, Snake, Togiak, Goodnews and Kanektok Rivers. Included also are the 1.6 million-acre Wood-Tikchik State Park (the nation’s largest state park), and the 4.8 million-acre Togiak National Wildlife Refuge. Interspersed throughout this area are approximately 1.
