Hold off until mountain goat and bear preliminary studies are finished next spring. Tighter conflict-of-interest rules.

That’s what two local advisory groups say is needed in dealing with expanding the areas available for heliskiing in the Haines Borough. Both recommendations are going to the assembly.

On Wednesday, the Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee requested the borough government delay expanding heliskiing zones until next spring when the state’s biologists finish preliminary calculations…