EPC's Hosting Facilities are critical for all of our programs.

People came from all over the world to learn about EPC's work and to experience a thriving rare base-line ecosystem of unparalleled beauty and bounty - the wild salmon way of life. Visitors and participants not only become more aware of Indigenous values, a world-class commercial fishery that supports a subsistence lifestyle, but also see and experience the effects of development and the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

The EPC's three hosting facilities are used for program participants, guests and retreats. Conservation partner and EPC advisory board member David Titcomb purchased the 5-mile Eyak Lake Home (where we house the majority of those that come to participate, work and visit EPC), as well as the Otter island and Knight Island properties. All properties merge with the EPC's programmatic work. The Otter Island site will eventually serve as an eco-lodge and retreat center. The large facility is powered by two rotating solar panels with a battery bank that functions throughout the year and has a water catchment and filtrating system. The EPC is also promoting the Knight Island Lodge in Prince William Sound where wind and hydropower are installed. The hydro system is producing all the power for the lodge in the summer, and the wind tower provides power during winter months. The long-term vision for Knight Island site is to establish an institute that offers, among its catalog of studies and research, fishery management, alternative energy solutions, wilderness survival and subsistence-living, environmental law, and oil spill recovery solutions. These lodges are garnering a lot of attention and proving that clean energy sustainable solutions are successful in this region now and that these "green" approaches can be replicated in Cordova, in communities throughout Alaska, and in communities throughout the Arctic.