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Alder Bend Land Trust

Land kept open for good along the Alder River · since 1991

6 of 7 preserves open today · Cutbank Trail closed (high water on the lower loop)Today’s trails →
Week 46 · early November

Before you drive out, see which trails are open today.

Seven preserves along the Alder River, free and open dawn to dusk. We post the status every morning.

Today’s trails →Join from $35 →
OpenThe Bend · Heron Slough · Tarrow Ridge Forest · Kettle Prairie · Salmonberry Flats
MuddyMill Creek Woods — Lower switchbacks are wet after the rain
ClosedCutbank Trail — High water on the lower loop
This weekThe river rises: Cutbank Trail floods most winters, so we check it every morning.
Mist lifting over a river bend below a forested hill
Plate I — the Bend, where the Alder River leaves the hills.

The year wheel: today, and the high-water months shaded.

Trails today

Checked each morning by the stewardship team. Dogs, miles and why a trail is shut, in one place.

Posted 29 September, 12:15 p.m. by the stewardship team

The BendOpenDawn to dusk29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goOn leash1.6
Heron SloughOpenDawn to dusk29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goNo dogs1.4
Tarrow Ridge ForestOpenDawn to dusk29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goOn leash4.2
Mill Creek WoodsMuddyLower switchbacks are wet after the rain. Wear boots; the upper loop is dry.29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goOn leash2.3
Kettle PrairieOpenDawn to dusk29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goNo dogs1.2
Salmonberry FlatsOpenDawn to dusk29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goOn leash1.8
Cutbank TrailClosedHigh water on the lower loop. The river is over the path below the cutbank; we will reopen it when the water drops and we have walked it.29 Sep, 12:15 p.m. not checked in a week — call before you goOn leash1.5
Parking, trailheads and what you will see at each preserve →

The year at the Bend

Four plates from the stewards’ notebook.

A great blue heron standing on a gravel bar in the river
Plate II — a great blue heron on the gravel bar.

Spring · Heron Slough

Herons nest March to July. The boardwalk stays open; dogs stay home.

Two walkers far down a grassy forest road, seen from behind
Plate III — the old road up Tarrow Ridge.

Summer · Tarrow Ridge

4.2 miles of shade and the long view over the Bend.

A small group on a guided forest walk past an orange trail blaze, seen mostly from behind
Plate IV — willow stakes going in on the Flats.

Autumn · work days

Planting season. 240 volunteers gave 3,900 hours last year.

A backwater slough at the edge of a conifer forest
Plate V — the slough in high water.

Winter · the river rises

Cutbank Trail floods most winters. Check before you go.

The land, in two numbers
4,860acres that will not be paved.
1,240acres you can walk, in seven preserves with 14 miles of trail.
3,620acres stay private farms and forest under 38 easements.
What an easement is →
A fenced pasture below a snow-capped mountain
Plate VI — working pasture of the kind kept as farmland under easement. No parcel is shown.
Looked after every year

A promise is only as good as the visits.

A promise to protect land is only as good as the visits. In 2025 we walked all 38 easements — 38 of 38 — and the stewardship fund pays for doing it again every year.

38 of 38easements walked in 2025
31 of 38walked so far in 2026
$1,460,000stewardship and defense fund

Counts only. Which land is under easement, and whose it is, stays between the owner and the trust.

A survey level on a tripod in a field
Plate VII — a survey level, set up for a boundary check.
Volunteers clearing brush along a river, seen at work
Plate VIII — volunteers clearing brush along the river.
Work days

240 neighbours kept 14 miles of trail open last year.

Two Saturdays a month, all year. Tools, gloves and coffee are ours; bring boots.

21 NovSaturday

Planting native shrubs along the river terrace

The Bend · 9 a.m. to noon
Boots, gloves. Hot soup at the end.

5 of 30 places taken · 25 left

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5 DecSaturday

Live-stake planting, second round

Salmonberry Flats · 9 a.m. to noon
Boots you can get wet.

0 of 20 places taken · 20 left

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What the money did

In 2025, 78¢ of every dollar went to buying, protecting and caring for land and trails.

78%Land protection, stewardship, trails and community programs — $634,00013%Management — $104,0009%Fundraising — $74,000
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Join

Members keep the trails open. From $35 a year.

$35

Friend of the Bend

A household membership: the spring and autumn letters, and first notice of guided walks.

$75

Steward

What most members give. About what one morning of trail work costs us in tools and gravel.

$150

Trailkeeper

Helps keep a mile of trail open for a year.

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A minute on the year

The land, the visits and the money, in one minute

Sample video. Alder Bend Land Trust is invented, so it has no footage of its own: the clips are free stock (Pexels) and the narration is a synthetic voice. For a real organization connectNPO uses only the photos and clips its staff send.

The same figures this site and the sample Form 990 publish: 4,860 acres protected, seven preserves with 14 miles of trail, 38 of 38 easements visited in 2025, 240 volunteers, and $812,000 spent, 78% of it on the land and the trails.

Made by connectNPO, who built this site. Up to five short videos a year are part of the plan.

The filings and the year →

What this demo shows

A land trust site that is right every morning

Alder Bend is invented. The features are real and working, and each one is an example of what connectNPO builds for nonprofits. Other sample sites: Soil cleanup → · Fair-wage ledger → · Youth arts → · Scholarships → · Community theatre → · Youth center → · Youth soccer → · Family counseling → · Animal rescue → · Food pantry → · Free clinic → · Resource directory → · House museum → · Domestic-violence services →

I

Trail status on every page

Staff set a preserve to open, muddy or closed with a reason; the header line, the board, the hero notes and the structured data follow, with the time it was posted.

The status board →
II

Work days with places left

Past days drop off, a full day stays listed as full, and the sign-up form only offers days with room.

Work days →
III

Monitoring, counts only

38 easements tracked on the staff side by code; the public sees how many were walked this year, never which land.

Monitoring →
IV

The 990, in plain words

Three sample 990s and the review, read line by line, with the stewardship fund beside the acres it must defend.

Financials →
V

Every sentence is editable

The words on each page are fields on a Page text screen; the layout stays in code, so nobody breaks it by accident.

A page to try it on →
VI

An almanac that turns

The week in the hero, the note for the month and the year wheel change by themselves.

This week’s note →
VII

Forms that send nothing

Work-day sign-up, landowner call-back and contact validate and say what a real site would do, with no network call. The landowner form never asks about the land.

The call-back form →
VIII

The staff side

One menu for trail status, work days, monitoring, land totals, documents and page text, with checks that warn when a status is a week old.

Open the staff preview →