Two incidents of stolen fishing gear in the past week have police warning locals and visiting fishermen to keep a close eye on their belongings. Two tourists from the Lower 48 who met in Haines for a fishing trip reported the theft of more than $500 in fishing gear from the back of their camper […]
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Wild Things
The autumnal equinox has just passed and the days are getting shorter. Flocks of summer birds are moving south now with their young ones. Skye Posey saw merlins near the Lutak tank farm. These small falcons prey on migrating songbirds. Most of the rufous hummingbirds left a month ago, but there are some stragglers, and occasionally an Anna’s […]
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Two moose left after being shoot
Wildlife troopers are looking for information on two moose that were shot and left to rot during the Tier II subsistence hunt near Haines. One moose, shot sometime around the Sept. 15 opening, was found near Sheep Canyon Lake on the upper Chilkat River. The moose was left to rot and not reported. The second moose, […]
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Initiative is about your values, rights
The initiative on the local ballot is about your values and rights. If you value subsistence fishing holes and feel a better design that would allow some curves and a 50 mph speed limit up the Chilkat Valley, rather than a straight highway with a 55-mph speed limit, should be considered before filling rivers and […]
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Fall: It’s the season for hunting
The game is on for moose, brown bear, goat, deer and waterfowl, and Haines hunters are heading out into the forests, rivers, lakes and mountaintops of the Chilkat Valley to find and take their quarry. The Tier II subsistence moose hunt opened Sept. 15, and seven legal bulls had been taken through Wednesday morning. Three […]
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King escapement 2nd lowest since ’91
Preliminary numbers show king salmon escapement this year at the second-lowest mark since the state revised standards for the run in 1991. Rich Chapell, area management biologist for Fish and Game’s Sportfish Division, said workers have counted 1,691 spawning kings in Chilkat River tributaries including Kelsall and Tahini rivers and Big Boulder and Little Boulder creeks. Last […]
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Federal fish agency pans highway plan
The federal National Marine Fisheries Service has joined critics of the Haines Highway expansion project. In comments to the state Department of Transportation on the project’s draft environmental assessment dated Aug. 23, the agency’s Juneau office said the project as proposed would have “substantial and permanent” adverse effects on essential fish habitat along the river. […]
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Toad nursery in way of improvements at airport
Biologist Tim Shields recently let the Haines Borough Planning Commission in on a little secret – there’s a pond at the airport teeming with toads. One sunny day two weeks ago, Shields pulled back some brush at the pond to expose a pile of baby toads – as many as 500 heaped up in a softball-sized mound […]
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Motorized use at beach resurfaces
The Haines Borough Assembly will look into putting teeth into a state directive against use of motorized vehicles on Chilkat River beaches. Confusion among area residents, borough staff and law enforcement officials over the legality of riding ATVs on the beaches led Mayor Stephanie Scott to investigate the issue. Scott concluded that while commercial motorized use is prohibited, personal use of ATVs […]
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Goll, Thomas pen critique of highway plan
Haines Borough Assembly members Tuesday hashed out a position on the state’s plans for widening the Haines Highway, incorporating verbiage from a joint statement issued by former state representatives Bill Thomas and Peter Goll. The Department of Transportation plan to widen the road between 3.5 and 25.3 Mile came under fiery criticism last week for only superficially […]