A local community foundation is offering a new $500 award this year for a project to protect, manage, sustain or create awareness of a healthy environment in the Chilkat Valley.

The $500 grant will be offered through the Chilkat Valley Community Foundation’s new Chilkat Valley Environmental Fund.

Foundation co-chair Crystal Badgley said the fund was created this year by a group of donors interested in environmental issues. “Right now it is a small fund and…