Midday Report: August 21, 2024 By Terry Haines Published August 21, 2024 at 12:44 PM AKDT Listen • 31:42 (Photo by Alicia Stearns/U.S. Forest Service) The Stikine River Flats area in the Tongass National Forest is viewed from a helicopter on July 19, 2021. The Stikine River is one of the major transboundary rivers impacted by mines in British Columbia.