The Bureau of Land Management may expand allotted helicopter landings on the 320,000 acres of mountain terrain in the Chilkat Valley from 300 to 11,000 annual landings (5,500 in the Haines), though local protesters believe that might negatively affect mountain goat habitat.
In October, BLM released its final environmental impact statement for the Haines amendment to the Ring of Fire Resource Management Plan, which will be used to determine land use and management designation in…