Fish waste fiasco: Bird Ridge trailhead remains closed

The main trailhead for Bird Ridge is still shut down, two days after someone illegally dumped 300 pounds of fish waste in the parking lot. Chugach State Park rangers say that was like ringing the dinner bell for every bear in the area.
Small pieces of flesh and bone are all that’s left of a major mess in the corner of the Bird Ridge parking lot. Chief Ranger Kurt Hensel spent more than an hour cleaning up that mess Tuesday morning.
“It took me about ten 50-gallon trash bags to load t