The TRTFN Land Guardian Program has the follow program goals:

• To monitor critical ecosystem services to conserve, protect and enhance ecosystem and cultural health;

• To maintain a distinct Tlingit presence on the land, and throughout the TRTFN traditional territory, through regular land-based activities including patrols, guardian cabins and Tlingit trails;

• To protect, conserve and restore Tlingit cultural & ecological features, values and land uses;

• To assume a lead role in monitoring the effects of climate change and support the community to identify and adopt adaptive ecosystem management strategies;

• To raise awareness about Tlingit values, laws, and language and promote Tlingit values of collective responsibility for land stewardship;

• To support Taku River Tlingit members to be out on the land, accessing Tlingit foods/medicine and connecting with Khustiyxh - the Tlingit Way of Life;

• To establish and sustain the Land Guardian Program as a leading example of indigenous stewardship, and continually evolve and improve through active use of Traditional knowledge, training, skill development, and shared learning with other regional, national and international programs.