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About Us

Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance

A statewide nonprofit chartered to advance the knowledge, appreciation and enjoyment of the historic Iditarod Trail. Founded in 1999.

Who we are

The Alliance promotes public awareness and protection of the Iditarod National Historic Trail and its gold-rush and Alaska Native heritage. It does that by encouraging education programs and historical research to tell the story of the Trail; by assisting in the protection, improvement, maintenance and marking of the Trail; and by developing partnerships that foster stewardship commitments and support from landowners, local communities, organizations and others.

A number of Board members have been involved in efforts for the Trail for over 30 years, and several served on the Department of the Interior’s Iditarod National Historic Trail Advisory Council, which sunsetted in 1998. With its partners, the Alliance celebrated the Trail’s centennial from 2008 to 2012.

In Alaska the Alliance is the principal nonprofit partner for the Trail, working with the Congressionally designated Trail Administrator at the Bureau of Land Management.

Portrait of Betsi Oliver, smiling, in a patterned sweater

Executive Director

Betsi Oliver

Betsi moved to Alaska in 2009 for a Student Conservation Association internship at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, which launched a career partnering with public lands and connecting people to the Alaskan outdoors: Chugach National Forest youth stewardship programs, BLM field trips at the Campbell Creek Science Center, Wilderness First Aid, and grants and volunteers at the Anchorage Park Foundation. She joined the Alliance on 17 March 2025.

Photo © Lauren Roberts 2023

Staff & board

Officers

  • President · Judy Bittner
  • Vice President · Jonathan Sewall
  • Secretary · Kirsten Bey
  • Treasurer · Lesli Schick

Board of Directors

  • Seat A, Kenai · Patrick O'Leary
  • Seat B, Yukon · Vacant
  • Seat C, At Large #1 · Allegra Hamer
  • Seat D, Iditarod Trail Committee · Mark Nordman
  • Seat E, Cook Inlet · Judy Bittner
  • Seat F, Kuskokwim · Mike Tierney
  • Seat G, At Large #2 · Aaron Burmeister
  • Seat H, At Large #3 · Lesli Schick
  • Seat I, Norton Sound · Kirsten Bey
  • Seat J, At Large #4 · Jonathan Sewall
  • Seat K, At Large #5 · Stephanie Masters Johnson
Design note: The board seats are named for regions of the Trail (Kenai, Cook Inlet, Kuskokwim, Yukon, Norton Sound) plus the Iditarod Trail Committee and at-large seats. Each seat is one entry, so when a class rotates (2026, 2027, 2028) staff change a name, not the page.

Annual reports

Design note: The FY25 report is an image-only PDF: a screen reader finds no text in it. Each report gets a short web summary here, and making the PDFs themselves accessible is an option we price separately.

Newsletters: the Tripod

Members receive the Tripod: news from the Alliance, updates on the trails, and a historic news article or photograph.

The archive, 2013 to 2025 (on the Alliance's current website)

Partners

BLM directly manages only a small section of the Trail, so partnerships with other governmental, private and tribal land managers throughout the state are critical to its protection.

  • U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Anchorage Field Office
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, including the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge
  • Chugach National Forest, Seward and Glacier Ranger Districts
  • Alaska Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Outdoor Recreation
  • Iditarod Trail Committee
  • Partnership for the National Trails System
  • Iditarod Trail Blazers: Seward, Knik and McGrath chapters
  • Nome Kennel Club
  • Citizen groups, community trail groups, local city and Tribal governments, and stakeholders throughout Alaska

Media package Content needed

Attachment 1 lists a Media Package under About Us. What’s needed: a short fact sheet, approved photographs with credits, logos, and a press contact.

Equal opportunity

The Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, or other protected status. Read the full EEO policy statement and how to file a complaint (on the Alliance's current website).

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