On July 30, Haines Huts, a local non-profit, was granted preliminary approved for a 10-year lease of one acre of state land by the Division of Mining, Land and Water to build a public use cabin on Mount Tukgahgo, about 8 miles north of Haines.
Locals Lindsay Johnson and Jess Kayser Forester founded Haines Huts in February, after seven years of meeting with state forest land users and officials to identify an area for their…