Concerned about increased vehicle and pedestrian traffic and human-bear encounters in the Chilkoot Corridor, Lutak Spur Road resident Richard Buck asked the borough’s Tourism Advisory Board (TAB) to consider making a recommendation to the borough assembly to hire bear monitors.
“There’s a tremendous amount of traffic,” Buck said during a Sept. 29 TAB meeting. “It seems to have no end to it. There is no monitoring of the traffic, of the people, of the bears,…