After denying a former Haines bear monitor a permit to conduct small-scale bear-viewing tours along the Chilkoot River, the Haines Borough Assembly reversed its decision and voted unanimously to award the permit at its April 9 meeting.
The assembly split 3-3 during its March 26 meeting on whether to issue the permit to the Great Bear Foundation, a Montana-based non-profit whose executive director, Shannon Donahue, worked as the bear monitor along the Chilkoot River for…