Courtesy of Tom and Patricia Faverty.
A large headless animal skeleton was found on the Ayiklutu Trail in Chilkat State Park last week. Haines resident Tom Faverty, who wrote a letter to the editor this week on the matter, said he suspected the skeleton belongs to a brown bear he recently encountered in the area that could have been poached. State wildlife biologist Carl Koch said he believes the skeleton is a bear’s but that…