After months of debate, the Haines Borough Assembly granted a heliski tour permit to a fourth operator in the Chilkat Valley.
The Jan. 11 decision came three weeks after the assembly, in a 4-2 vote, adopted changes to the borough’s heliski code, raising a cap on tour permits for three years and replacing regulations on skier days with a limit on helicopter use.
The ordinance, which was adopted on Dec. 22, allows for up to…
