The public meeting this week – in which the Department of Environmental Conservation explained about possible Tier 3 protection for the Chilkat River – was ugly. The rudeness of many was reminiscent of meetings in the early 1980s about protection of Chilkat eagles. What was most disturbing were insults directed at Klukwan for proposing that we look into protecting the water quality of the Chilkat – their lifeblood, as well as ours.
It didn’t matter…