Volunteers want the city to manage Douglas Island’s cemeteries. Instead, the Assembly is asking for help.

Juneau’s city attorney says taking over the privately owned cemeteries would likely face many legal and financial barriers.

Ed Schoenfeld looks at a headstone at the old Douglas city cemetery on Tuesday, May 7, 2024. Trudging through the bumpy, brush-covered grounds at the old Douglas city cemetery, Ed Schoenfeld squints at a headstone. It’s half protruding out of the ground, with fiddleheads popping up around it.

Without some sort of maintenance, many of the gravestones in this cemetery and others on Douglas would be lost in the growth of the rainforest. The city says it’s unclear who owns the land where many of the cemeteries are. And, Palmer says it would likely require extensive work to find those owners, acquire the land and then maintain it.is that instead, the city could financially support an organization tasked with coordinating the maintenance of the cemeteries.

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