A review committee recommended opening seven areas to heliskiing Monday following a protest of the make-up of that group.
A five-person committee has until Nov. 30 to recommend whether the Haines Borough should approve 14 requests by Southeast Alaska Backcountry Adventures and Alaska Heliskiing.
Co-owners of the two companies making the requests – Sean Brownell of Alaska Heliskiing and Scott Sundberg of SEABA – are on the five-person committee making the recommendations. Their presence on…

