Steering Committee
Steering Committee
Dave Brann (Co-Chair) - A retired teacher and active outdoorsman, Dave loves to create trails that invite people to enjoy the local wild lands and water. He is active with the Kachemak Nordic Ski Club, the Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park, the Kachemak Bay Water Trail Committee, Homer-Kachemak Bay Rotary Club, and The Homer Demonstration Forest Steering Committee.
Devony Lehner (Secretary) - A conservationist with Homer Soil and Water Conservation District, Devony loves anything to do with helping folks understand and enjoy their natural environment, watershed-by-watershed, trail-by-trail, stream-by-stream. That includes looking for ways to make our natural areas accessible to everyBODY, including folks with disabilities. She's an avid horse person and has a contented herd of four--all freebees who've found a forever home with her.
Brad Charters (Treasurer) - Professionally a hotel auditor employed by Land's End Resort in Homer, Alaska, so should have a good sense for numbers-but who has lost sight of a reasonable number of paddle craft... owner of (4) canoes and (5) kayaks. Introduced to canoe paddling at a YMCA summer camp in the mid-1950's. I always wanted a canoe, it only took 50 years for that to happen. I paddle fresh water wilderness-the Canoe Trails of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (Swan Lake and Swanson River) and open salt water (Kachemak and Resurrection Bays) An interest in knowing the waters of Kachemak Bay better attracted me to the KBWT, and a positive response to a public question hooked me. Near future ("retirement") paddling plans include several segments of the NFCT (Northern Forest Canoe Trail) next year (2014). A 500 mile float down the Yukon River (2015) and exploring the Inside Passage Waters of Southeast Alaska.
Robert Archibald (Co-Chair) Robert was a professional mariner and has worked around the world on various types of vessels. He retired from sailing as a Chief Engineer in 20014 after 47 years. Robert is a skilled hand at a wide range of outdoor activities - from boating, skiing, and riding horses to working on trails. Robert and his wife Roberta have traveled through Europe and Africa on horses, canoed parts of Yukon River and rafted many rivers in Alaska, Colorado and Arizona. He was instrumental in making the Homer Highland Games a reality.
Aron Peterson - I retired to the area of Homer in 2006 from New Jersey. I grew up an avid 4H-er on a dairy farm in western Michigan. I earned a BS degree in biology with a minor in geology from Central Michigan University. I did graduate work in physiology at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Worked 40 years as a senior research scientist at Bristol-Meyers Squibb Company in drug development. I also worked in residentential and commercial construction. I was widowed on 2019. We have 3 children, 6 grandchildren, and 2 great gvrandchildren, I currently serve on the Kchemak Bay State Park Citizens Advisory Board. I was honored to receive the Friends of Kachemak Bay State Park, Golden Pulaski Volunteer Awar in 2016. I am brush, chain saw and wilderness 1st aid certified to do volunteer work in Kachemak Bay State Park. I love anything outdoors.
Bob Glen-I am a retired professional aircraft pilot and law enforcement officer. My wife, Monica, and I lived in Homer in the late 1980s before moving to Anchorage for work reasons in 1989. Our four children were raised in Anchorage. We returned to beautiful Kachemak Bay after my retirement in 2010.
I was born and raised in Vermont. Immediately before moving to Alaska in 1981 I lived in Bergen, Norway. There I flew aircraft in the western fjords region for the ambulance service and fisheries enforcement as well as mountain supply and tourism. I flew seaplanes and guided fishermen in the Bristol Bay-Iliamna region my first few years in Alaska. I’m a graduate of the Universitetet i Bergen (BSc), University of Alaska – Fairbanks (BS) and Boston University (MS). I have a life-long interests in marine biology and science, as well as boating and flying.
I volunteer for the Kachemak Nordic Ski Club in addition to the Kachemak Bay Water Trail.
Hal and Jessica Shepherd with a combined forty years in Alaska, Hal and Jessica Shepherd run Water Policy Consulting LLC with the goal of investigating and informing others on issues related to water rights, climate change impacts, timber and mining legislation, and community resilience. When we're not at the keyboard, we're enjoying this , the last great wilderness, on skis, in kayaks, and by hiking the many wonderful trails on the Kenai Peninsula.