Today’s residents and visitors in Eklutna Valley occasionally hear the roar of one or two Pave Hawk helicopters rattling up or down the valley.  It was very different in the 1960s and 1970s when the U.S. Army treated Eklutna Valley like an occupied country.  Back then most of the land in the valley belonged to the federal government and the Army had no difficulty obtaining permits to … Continue reading Charge of the Light Brigade: How the U.S. Army lost the battle for Eklutna Valley