After Leah Wagner and Nick Schlosstein moved to Haines in 2015, they lived in a tent for five months.
The couple had bought a quarter-acre of land off of Sawmill Road the previous year, but the parcel had no structures and no utilities. “We had a (bear) mom and cubs that would come by pretty regularly,” Wagner said. “It was concerning.”
Wagner and Schlosstein spent the summer working on the land. In addition to jobs…
