(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) A pile of cut logs near Porcupine Road in the Haines State Forest on July 28, 2025 in the Chilkat Valley.

The Upper Lynn Canal Fish and Game Advisory Committee met four times in January, in part to talk about how the state is approaching changing its management of the Haines State Forest. 

Now the committee is set to meet again, this time with staff from the state Division of Forestry…

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...