Samantha Lilly works in outreach for the company.  Alaska Geographic is the not-for-profit corporation that does retail interpretive stores and educational services for the Federal public land agencies in Alaska.  Those agencies include the US Fish & Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and the US Forest Service.  Alaska Geographic operates 36 retail stores in parks, refugesand national forests. In addition to the retail presence they are operating internships and outreach programs for youth and adults in partnership with the sponsor federal agency.  Ms. Lilly was particularly proud of the 23 million dollars the company has returned to their sponsoring agencies since the company’s founding in 1959.  She advised that Alaska Geographic is governed by a board of directors.  In response to a question she admitted that their website was not easily navigated and did not disclose what the annual revenues of the non-profit were.  The website for the group is https://www.akgeo.org/

 

Ms. Lilly can be contacted at slilly@akgeo.org