The Bureau of Land Management is soliciting comments from Haines residents as it starts work again on the Ring of Fire Resource Management Plan.

Eight BLM representatives hosted an open house April 4 to gather comments and answer questions on the “Haines Block,” which encompasses about 320,000 acres of BLM-managed lands mostly northwest of town to the Canadian border. Agency lands are largely used for heli-skiing.

BLM began work on the plan in 2006, but…