An eagle lands in the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve on Jan. 28, 2024, near Haines, Alaska. (Lex Treinen/Chilkat Valley News)

There are still two vacant seats, but the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve Advisory Council is scheduled to convene in mid-October.

At minimum, the 12-member council is supposed to meet quarterly, but it hasn’t had a meeting since 2022 according to a state meetings database. 

The governor appoints people to the council, which is made…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...