The crowd at ITN’s outdoor film festival. (Photo by Kayla Desroches / KMXT) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Community members gathered at the Kodiak Convention Center this weekend to attend Kodiak’s ninth annual outdoor film festival. The festival is also the membership meeting for Island Trails Network, a nonprofit with services that include building and maintaining trails and cleaning up marine debris around …
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Kayla Desroches/KMXT A local nonprofit is close to finishing up this year’s marine debris cleanup on Shuyak Island. Volunteers and staff with Island Trails Network kayaked along the shoreline and stockpiled the debris on the beaches there. Director of Education, Outreach, and Marine Programs Tom Pogson says they’ve so far removed roughly 75 percent of the garbage Pogson says the …
Read More »ITN Gets More Money for Tsunami Clean Up Than State
Brianna Gibbs/KMXT Kodiak residents should expect to see a lot more trails in the coming years, in addition to upkeep of old favorites. The Island Trails Network, a local organization that builds and maintains trails across the archipelago, scored $51,000 from the state legislature this year to put toward various trail projects. In addition to trail building and maintenance, ITN …
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