I’ve been meaning to get up there for years – but never made it so far. Now with the polar bears listed on the ESA, there’ll be a ton of new rules in the near future regarding ‘harassment’, and how close one can be, etc, etc. Rules written, of course, by the same folks who dart, collar, tag, tattoo and paintball the bears.

I hear this year the bears arrived before the first whale was killed, indicating the bears are pretty conditioned to showing up . and then causing problems in the village, etc, if there’s no whale bones around. I’l be surprised if this doesn’t change sometimes soon, and the bones are taken out to sea and dumped, as they are in places like Barrow.

Cheers

Carl