The Takshanuk Watershed Council will be revising its estimate of the eulachon run to Chilkoot River following a resurgence of spawning there last weekend. Council executive director Meredith Pochart said the second surge lasted only two or three tide cycles but represented at least twice as many fish as the first surge. Because the council […]
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Can log jams help build king salmon run?
State biologists and the Takshanuk Watershed Council believe “engineered log jams” placed at the head of sand bars can create overwintering habitat and drive up the number of kings returning to the Chilkat as mature fish. “If you put more kings out in the ocean, hopefully more will come back. Given a constant for marine […]
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State rejected 2 sites for Freeride ski event
In December, the Freeride World Tour’s request to access two sites outside of the borough-approved heli-ski map generated controversy, including opposition from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the Chilkat Indian Village and numerous residents. The assembly on a 5-1 vote decided to open those areas, but it turns out the borough’s action made […]
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Citing king forecast;, sportsmen cancel derby
For the second consecutive year, the Haines Sportsman’s Association has canceled its King Salmon Derby. The group’s decision became official at a membership meeting Saturday, said president Charlie DeWitt. “We decided it was in the best interest of the fish not to do it,” DeWitt said. “There’s no fish and it wouldn’t be profitable for […]
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Tier 3 ranking seems appropriate
Brad Schulze states that my letter in the CVN somehow “…pretends that the current push to reclassify the Chilkat River has nothing to do with the Palmer Project.” In fact, the Tier 3 proposal (which came from Chilkat Indian Village, not from me or Lynn Canal Conservation) seems appropriately focused on protecting the Chilkat and our economy (fishing, tourism) […]
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Tribe undecided on Tier 3
The Chilkoot Indian Association Tribal Council has not made a formal decision to support or not to support the Outstanding National Resource Water Designation Tier 3 nomination for the Chilkat River. Harriet Brouillette Tribal administrator
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Mining better here, where it’s regulated
I am struck by the audacity of Eric Holle’s letter to the editor in which he pretends that the current push to reclassify the Chilkat River has nothing to do with the Palmer Project. I have long ago concluded that these leftist greenies can’t possibly be stupid enough to believe their own rhetoric and that the primary […]
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Constantine a train wreck in slow motion
This is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Whenever I travel anywhere else and come back, I take deep breaths and think to myself, “My God, this state, and this valley especially, is vast and clean and quiet and wild yet.” The wildlife of Alaska speak with a gravitas so powerful I understand […]
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Hostility to ‘Tier 3’
State explains river protection A Tier 3 designation for the Chilkat River would be compatible with uses like two-stroke outboard motors and existing mining operations, but would be restrictive of new pollution like effluent coming out of a pipe from an industrial operation, a state environmental official told residents at a Monday meeting at the Chilkat Center. […]
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Tier 3 designation meeting was ‘ugly’
The public meeting this week – in which the Department of Environmental Conservation explained about possible Tier 3 protection for the Chilkat River – was ugly. The rudeness of many was reminiscent of meetings in the early 1980s about protection of Chilkat eagles. What was most disturbing were insults directed at Klukwan for proposing that we look into protecting […]