Local plans for improvements to a landing strip and cabin on U.S. Forest Service land at Katzehin Flats stopped due to procedural costs, according to backers.

The Takshanuk Watershed Council inherited the project from the Haines Sportsman’s Association after the Sportsman’s secretary Marilyn Parks, who was spearheading it, became ill. The project was to be funded by Secure Rural Schools money, through the Lynn Canal-Icy Strait Resource Advisory Committee.

The committee approved $55,000 for the…