Net Your Problem, an environmental entity that collaborates with others to promote recycling of worn-out commercial fishing gear, is working with Copper River Watershed Project (CRWP) to collect gillnet and seine net in Cordova from Aug. 2-4. 'We are collecting nets on those dates at the Refuse Department facility of Whitshed Road from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.,' said Shae Bowman, operations manager for CRWP. 'We accept nets, corklines, leadlines, and more, but all parts of the net need to be separated and hanging twine needs to be removed from gillnets … All nets need to be free of debris like sticks rocks, and trash.

https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2023/07/28/recycle-fishing-nets-with-crwp-aug-2-4/

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The Yakutat Timber Barge loaded with 3000 tons of scrap metal prior to departure on Aug. 1, 2023. Photo by Dick Shellhorn The renowned Steelhead is no more.    Termed 'the heart of the flats tender fleet'' by longtime North Pacific Processors Cordova Plant Manager Ken Roemhildt, the rugged steel craft sat in decay on the North Shipyard pullout area until recently falling victim to the cutting torches of Yakutat Timber.  A former oyster barge in Washington state, the Steelhead was purchased in 1972 and converted to a tender by Hugh 'Hughie' Hosick.

https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2023/08/07/gone-is-a-famous-tender/

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State officials on Tuesday filed a motion seeking summary judgment against a petition approved by Interior Department officials to take into trust lands in downtown Juneau to create Indian Country.  Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor said the state is challenging the action approved by Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland on grounds that Newland had, on his own, decided to alter the balance of territorial jurisdiction in Alaska without clear authority from Congress.  Late last year the Bureau of Indian Affairs announced that it would accept a vacant property in Juneau into trust for the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2023/08/07/state-challenges-petition-to-create-indian-country-in-juneau/

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