Klukwan researchers and emergency planners have been responding to the village’s  landslide risk with efforts to develop an early warning system and prevent damage to the village from a slide area and debris fan near Mile 23 of the Haines Highway. 

Chilkat Indian Village Landslides Hazards Program consultant Jess Kayser Forster, geologist and  landslide researcher Josh Roering, and tribal council member and liaison for Klukwan’s Emergency Operations Center Shawna Hotch laid out the community’s response

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