Contractors working for the Chilkoot Indian Association last week removed more than 400 old dock pilings from the Port Chilkoot Dock beach, including ones from a barge ramp where the first car ferries in Lynn Canal landed in the 1950s.

They also harvested about a pick-up truck load of metal scraps from the beach, under a project intended to clean up former military sites.

The dock used by the LCT Chilkoot, a modified military landing…