Haines residents Steven Villano and Steve Wishstar are starting Haines Science Center, a nonprofit to gather and synthesize data to help Chilkat Valley residents interpret the surrounding landscape.
“We’re hoping to coalesce information and interpret it in an educational sense to produce language that can be understood, so a deeper understanding and decision-making can come out of it,” said Villano, the center’s executive director.
Both Villano and science director Wishstar had been toying with science…

