Main Line:                       907-745-3360
Secondary Line:              907-745-3361
Fax/Conference Line:     907-745-5479

Toll Free Number: 1-888-822-8830 (from Chitina, Copper Center, Glennallen, McCarthy, Mentasta, Tatitlek and Valdez areas only)

Our Staff

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Winona Benson: Nutrition Educator/ANEP

Steven Brown: Agriculture & Horticulture Agent

Julie Cascio: Health, Home, & Family Development Agent

Pam Compton: Ag/Hort Program Assistant, IPM Tech

Dawn Durtsche: 4-H Administrative Assistant

Derylee Hecimovich: 4-H & Youth Development Agent

Deb Blaylock: Ag/Hort/HHFD Administrative Assistant

Haley Redmon: Nutrition Educator, EFNEP


Matanuska-Susitna/Copper River District includes the 24,000 square mile Mat-Su Borough and additional areas in the Copper River Basin that include Gakona, Copper Center, Kenny Lake and Valdez communities outside of the borough. It is associated with scattered pockets of suburban, and rural and subsistence lifestyle to residents.

Palmer Research and Extension Center

533 E. Fireweed Avenue, Palmer, AK 99645, Phone 907-746-9467, FAX 907-746-2677

Several Cooperative Extension Service faculty and staff members work out of the University of Alaska's Palmer Research Station. This gives them closer contact with both the ongoing research and the researchers. Alaskans benefit by receiving the latest information.

Meg Burgett

Jeffrey Smeenk

Peter J. Stortz