Bobby Jensen poses with a wolverine he retrieved from a trapline near Chilkoot Lake on Jan. 13. Jensen said he would sell the hide to a buyers cooperative. Frost-resistant wolverine hides are highly prized and can fetch more than $1,000 when they are fully tanned. An average of six wolverines are taken per year by trappers in the Haines area, according to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
The remains of a Mike Ward’s commercial space and apartment building that burned down over the weekend on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in Haines. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Travis Kukull stands inside the building where he plans to open a new restaurant, Deer Heart, in the spring of 2025 in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Wrangell’s Ben Houser gets medical treatment after breaking his forearm during a matchup against Haines’ Hayden Jimenez on Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, during the Region V wrestling tournament in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
A pumpkin sits atop a hazard light on Kruze Nettleton’s truck on Friday, Oct. 31, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Firefighters working to contain a blaze at the Old Field Kitchen prioritized keeping two fuel tanks and a nearby replica of a tribal house on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024, in Haines, Alaska.
A dead harbor seal on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024, near Letnikof Cove in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Jamiann S’eiltin Hasselquist lead nine women through a ceremony the day after the U.S. Navy apologized for unjustly bombarding the community of Angoon more than 140 years ago on Oct. 27, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Francisco Martínezcuello/Chilkat Valley News)
Dwight Nash clears his driveway after an early, heavy snowstorm blanketed the Chilkat Valley Oct. 17, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Sarah Elliott grabs Lucas Dewitt and Axel Stickler during the Haines middle school cross country end-of-season race on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Four businesses and four apartments in a building owned by Mike Ward burn on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024, in Haines Alaska. It’s not yet clear exactly how the fire started but Ward and others on the scene said it appeared to have been ignited in one of the apartments. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Ozzy Hickman, 9, Shk’oohaalee Justina Hotch, and Odin Duffy-Webb, 10, move a tray of moose meat during moose camp at the Klukwan School on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, in Klukwan, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
The annual Haines Mardi Gras was celebrated widely downtown on August 23, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. It was started by Don Henagan, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana 25 years ago. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
(left) Grady Robinson and Canaan Larson both reach to catch the ball during a flag football game on Saturday, August 17, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
A bearproof dumpster at the Chilkat State Park nears the pawprints of curious bears on Saturday, July 26, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Taylor Vidic, Salissa Thole, and Shona Strauser pose for a photo before performing with High Costa Living during a community-wide wedding reception for Henry Pollan and Ela Sokolowska on Saturday, July 20, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
People watching the 4th of July raft race hop in a truck to head downriver and see the end on July 4, 2024, in the Chilkat Valley, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Haines Mayor Tom Morphet hooks a truck up to tow after getting stuck in the snow on Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Nick Schlosstein pushes Ayla Schlosstein, 3, as Leah Wagner skates along with them on Mosquito Lake on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, near Haines, Alaska.
Drake Olson on an unnamed glacier between Haines and Skagway. Olson has carved out a unique niche in Southeast Alaska ferrying adventures into little-traveled mountains around Haines. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Deb Kemp enjoys breakfast at the American Legion on Thursday, July 4, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Taylor Vidic, or Lady Lacroix of the Nude and Rude Revue, performs on Friday, July 26, 2024, at the Southeast Alaska State Fair in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Monique Anderson, of Sitka, leaves Rose Hip Vintage — Amelia Nash’s pop-up shop — during Beerfest on Saturday, May 25, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Harrison Mason, 3, scoots across a part of Jenae’s Playground after a grand opening ceremony on Saturday, August 17, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Steve Kroschel calls his moose Duck Moses over for a quick snack on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, in Mosquito Lake, Alaska. Kroschel owns and operates the Kroschel Films Wildlife Center where some 60 animals, including this moose, live. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Caleb Willard-Wilson, held by Gina St Clair, takes a turn grinding up moose meat for sausage at the Klukwan School on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, in Klukwan, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Steve Fossman fills his boat, Easy Street, up with ice before heading out to fish on July 6, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Ahsoka, a western Siberian eagle owl, became the new addition the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines, Alaska. (Francisco Martinezcuello/Chilkat Valley News)
Lyle Huff stacks meat for cooking on Friday, June 28, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. Huff and three others prepared 500 pounds of meat for the annual volunteer fire department barbecue. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Riders in the annual Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay on June 15, 2024 headed toward Haines, Alaska. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Dexter, a male cross between a Rex and Flemish Giant breed sits in carrier in the Haines Animal Rescue Kennel on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Wayne Price, Ḵaajis.yoodzi.áx̱k, gestures to other canoes to hurry up and launch on May 31, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. Price, a mastercarver, carved 4 of the 5 canoes that headed out of Haines bound for Juneau. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
(left) Thom Andriesen and CJ Jones practice using a firehose during a monthly training on Monday, June 24, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Several volunteers gathered at the at the Jones Point Cemetary on Monday, May 27, 2024, to replace all of the old flags on the graves of veterans in Haines, Alaska. Memorial Day gatherings were held in Haines and Klukwan. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
A brown bear munches on a dandelion snack on May 27, 2024 near mile 17 of the Haines Highway. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Lori Mastrella signs a petition asking the state to allow camping at Portage Cove during a “Camp-In” organized by mayor Tom Morphet on May 17, 2024. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Dori Thompson pours hooligan into a heating tank on May 2, 2024 at a camp along the Chilkoot River near Haines, Alaska. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Nora Zimmerly and Ryan Irvin, practice before their Alaska Folk Festival set on Monday, April 8, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
People gathered hooligan by the bucket at the mouth of the Chilkoot River on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Jessi Downey, of Aimaaagvik Kennel in Willow, tends to her 23 dogs on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. Downey and Baydon Ketts, of Aimaagvik Kennel in Willow, are headed to Juneau to do sled dog tours with the 23-dog team for the summer. They have been stranded in Haines for nearly a week after their ferry was canceled. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Luke Marquardt watches while a friend pulls up a crab pot with two dungeness crab from the cruise ship dock. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Water pooled to over a foot in some places near the airport on Monday. Alaska Seaplanes staff set up sand bags by one door in the case flood waters reached their offices. Staff recommended customers not drive out to pick up mail throughout the day Jan. 28, 2024. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)
Mayor Tom Morphet examines a city sign that has been modified from saying “Wecome to Haines” to “Welcome to Deishu,” a Tlingit word meaning “The beginning or end of the trail,” on Saturday, April 27, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
