By Tom Morphet

A determination that federal trail-building funds could be used for a visitor’s center helped trigger funding that in mid-May will open to the public an unfinished Jilkaat Kwaan Cultural Heritage Center and Bald Eagle Preserve Visitor’s Center.

“We’ve got a couple million dollars to get started, so we’re starting,” project manager Lani Hotch said this week. “We’re building the exhibit hall right now. We can open with what we’ve got in hand.…