Mission Statement
Our mission is to end the destruction of habitat by recovering abandoned oil barrels in order to preserve and protect fragile ecosystems and species.
Henderson Haul uses a direct action approach to find and document existing abandoned oil barrels and extract them using low impact environmental means. By extracting these environmental polluters, Henderson Haul works to ensure these sensitive ecosystems are healthy for future generations to enjoy.
Henderson Haul uses a direct action approach to find and document existing abandoned oil barrels and extract them using low impact environmental means. By extracting these environmental polluters, Henderson Haul works to ensure these sensitive ecosystems are healthy for future generations to enjoy.
Who We Are This project was founded when two adventurers met and realized the negative impact these oil barrels were making in such a pristine and sensitive environmental area. Both have a passion for the environment and make their living off the outdoors. With their combined outdoor survival skills and endurance, they are the right match to tackle such a project for the betterment of the arctic and to keep Alaska’s wild areas natural. Together, they plan to clean up the mess that should have taken place years ago from irresponsible consumerism and the race to find easy oil deposits and minerals.
JOE HENDERSON - BIO
Joe Henderson's passion to explore Alaska's pristine back-country and Arctic region has steered him in a direction where few explorers have ever been. Joe is a pioneer in dog sledding in the sense that he has perfected a method of travel that is unprecedented in modern times. Never in recorded history has anyone traveled solo for up to 4-5 months at a time without resupply or even so much as seeing another human being. Joe attributes his success to his Alaskan malamutes which in his words "are the toughest minded and intelligent dogs on earth". "A dog’s iron will and a person’s spirit combined is a formidable force. They become one team, one being, one cohesive unit working together to overcome what was believed to be impossible." -Joe Henderson Joe began dog mushing and conducting Arctic expeditions over 30 years ago. Eventually Joe’s well trained team and his training skills caught the attention of movie scouts who were searching for dogs to be featured in the 1990 Walt Disney movie White Fang. Joe worked on the movie for three months as an actor double, dog trainer, stunt double, and sled dog coordinator but it didn’t take long after the movie for Joe to lose interest in the Hollywood spotlight and return to his true passion-exploring the Alaska's Arctic and vast untouched wilderness by dogteam. Since then, he has established one of the most resilient, hard-core malamute dog sledding teams in modern times. He shares a special bond with his team and each dog. To quote Joe, "All the dogs are part of our family." "Ordinary dogs have accomplished extraordinary things because they didn’t know they couldn’t" -Joe Henderson- Joe is author of several books and magazine articles. Also, he offers dog sled expeditions and inspirational public speaking engagements. Please feel free to check out his website for more information at: www.alaskanarcticexpeditions.com 
RHONDA SCHRADER - BIO
Wilderness guide Rhonda Schrader has over 25 years experience in the outdoors and solo remote traveling. An undergraduate degree minor of conservation with an art major, and graduate studies in Wildlife Recreation and Nature Based Tourism and Sustainable Community Development have pushed her into the environmental field of studies. Her positions have ranged from the director of the American Bear Association to the exhibit designer at the Science Museum of Minnesota working with the Minnesota zoo, Smithsonian, Dept. of Natural Resources, International Wolf Center, National Park Service, California Science Center and Naples Botanical Gardens on projects such as Water and Usage Pollution on the Mississippi River, Endangered and Extinct Tigers, Meerkats, Evolution, Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico, Dynamic Processes of Earth Changes, Polar Thaw and the Effects of Global Warming etc. She has excelled in remote wilderness canoe travel and backpacking and has camped in the bush in Africa to the northern reaches of the arctic to the remote desolate beaches of Baja to the depths of the Quetico Provincial Park and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and to the mountains of the Appalachian Hiking Trail. Many of these she experienced solo with her canine companion. It was with her love of dogs, outdoors and adventure which made her start a guiding business called Howling Wolf Adventures, an adventure company catering to both dogs and humans. check out her website at: www.howling-wolf-adventures.com "We have a responsibility to be good stewards of the land. I believe this means we have an obligation to clean up the damage done by corporations who have abandoned accountability of their actions all in the name of greed and 'progress.' " -Rhonda Schrader |
Mysterious HistoryNot much is known about the barrels mysterious history because they have been shadowed in a cloud of secrecy. No corporation wants to take responsibility for the barrels that have sat there for decades because no one wants to pay for the clean up associated with such a claim. Even the government has cast a blind eye not knowing exactly who to blame for the nearly half century old environmental eyesore on our pristine Alaskan wilderness. Some even say the government is to blame from years ago. An article, Alaska's Big Litter Problem: Oil Drums, was written in the Lodi News-Sentinel on Jan 7th, 1971, but not much has been published since that time, nor has any action been taken to fix the problem. Here is the article and the estimated clean up costs of $1,174,148 associated with recovery at that time.
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