A local family will pay $52,000 in legal fees after losing a lawsuit last year over private property on the Chilkoot River.
“The whole thing feels like I’m in an episode of the Twilight Zone,” said Reuben Loewen. He and his wife Rosalie attempted to identify the boundaries of and protect their private land in 2013.
The Chilkoot Indian Association, Alaska Native Brotherhood Camp 5, and Sealaska Corporation argued against the protection, saying subsistence fisherman…
