March 2012 - Page 4 of 9

Wed Mar 21, 2012

USDA official tours Sitka, talks policy in Ketchikan. New environmental group established in SE. Judge vacates redistricting revision. Minor earthquake in Cook Inlet.

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Leone defense team will challenge CG admiral's remarks. Federal subsistence board to hear Kootznoowoo petition. Juneau restaurant fined for buying subsistence halibut. Oil taxes, education money on table as legislature heads into final month. Do-not-resuscitate bill heard in senate committee. Trapper Creek miner fined for creek diversion. Fairbanks allows 'occupiers' to have portable toilet.

USCG admonishes Sitka aviator in 2010 crash

Lt. Lance Leone met Sunday with Coast Guard Rear Adm. Thomas Ostebo to review a final report on the crash. Ostebo also entered remarks into Leone’s personnel file that could mean an uncertain future for the aviator’s military career.

Mon Mar 19, 2012

Leone faces administrative action from Coast Guard. Increased ferry service coming to Alaska communities. George Island's big gun silenced, but not forgotten.

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Sea otter hunter examines “significantly altered” in art and craft

The public comment period on proposed language governing the use of sea otter hides in authentic Native handicrafts will close at the end of this month, on Saturday March 31st. The draft language from the US Fish & Wildlife Service is called “Guidance on Authentic Native Articles of Handicraft and Clothing made from Sea Otters.” KCAW’s Robert Woolsey speaks with local sea otter hunter Peter Williams about his efforts to raise awareness among artists about the issue.

Winter’s swan song

March is usually the month when Sitka shakes off winter, but so far that hasn't quite happened. Snowpack has increased this month -- with reports of depths around seventeen feet at treeline on Mt. Verstovia. At sea level, snow flurries have been an almost-daily event. Videographer David Rice used his high-definition camera to capture winter's final bow.

George Island’s Big Gun silent, but no longer forgotten

One of the largest remaining pieces of World War II armament in Alaska is located on a tiny island in the mouth of Cross Sound, not too far from Glacier Bay. Residents of nearby Elfin Cove and Pelican have known about the big gun on George Island since it was put there early in the war, but it was only last year that the Forest Service redeveloped the historic trail to the battery, and a Sitka historian scoured military archives to piece together the gun’s bizarre story.