Tribal leader optimistic after State Department, EPA meeting

Southeast Alaska’s largest tribal organization said this month’s meetings with the U.S. State Department and Environmental Protection Agency were productive.
Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska President Richard Peterson. (Photo courtesy CCTHITA)Among other things, the agencies could help expand water-monitoring efforts along transboundary rivers.
The 30,000-member Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska set up thegovernment-to-