Native groups and the State of Alaska have cleaned up and cordoned off a Haines Highway pullout that for decades attracted squatters, partiers and illegal trash dumpers.
“The main thing is it was getting to be an environmental issue. People were camped out here and trash was piled up two feet high,” said resident Tim Ackerman, a local tribal member who pushed for the effort at 7 Mile Haines Highway.
The cleanup was a coordinated…
