...documented previously." Cannon was one of Geohedral's original founders. Beard Co. president and chief financial officer Herb Mee declined to comment on the issue. Yakutat Borough manager Skip Ryman said the company was very optimistic when it first...

...from them," Kato said. "So it makes one suspect. They're looking for money, basically." Geohedral President Herb Mee, Jr. told the Juneau Empire in September that it is not a mining company and Geohedral was looking for a company with...

...acres, which adds to a 48,000-acre block it claimed last year. "We think it's a world class discovery," said Herb Mee Jr., president of The Beard Co., a stakeholder in Geohedral. The companies were testing the area this summer and...