Land kept open for good along the Alder River · since 1991
Members keep the trails open.
1,180 member households pay for the morning status checks, the tools on work days and the annual walk of every easement. Membership starts at $35 a year.
Choose a membership
Join at $75 a year →Demonstration: the button opens an email; no card is taken. On a real site it opens the trust’s own donor page, where payment is handled.
$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.
Leaving land or a gift in your will
Some members leave the trust a gift in their will, so the land they walked is looked after when they no longer can. If you are thinking about it, this is the wording people usually share with their lawyer:
“I give to Alder Bend Land Trust, a Washington nonprofit corporation, EIN 00-0000013, of Kettleford, Washington, ________ for its general purposes.”
Sample wording for a sample organization. It is not legal or tax advice; your own lawyer decides how it fits your will.
Where a membership goes
Gifts and memberships were $412,000 of the trust’s $884,000 in 2025, the largest part of its income. They pay for what grants rarely cover: the morning checks, the tools, and the annual walk of every easement.
The whole year, line by line →