Wendie Marriott and Bern Savikko lost their house — and a forested acre with a Lynn Canal view — in the Beach Road landslide two years ago. Now the state has granted them a new plot of land.
Citing a little-known statute, officials at the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approved a land swap with Marriott and Savikko on Oct. 25. In exchange for their Beach Road property, Marriott and Savikko received an undeveloped…