Six in the Far North

Credit: Constance Baltuck

In August we spent 18 days in Kobuk Valley National Park fifty miles north of the Arctic Circle, to participate in a bear conservation project with the National Park Service. During our time there Wicket, Lily and Orbee were all hard at work, crossing sand dunes (yes, sand dunes!), clambering in and out of mosquito-infested swamps, fearlessly pushing their way through alder thickets, blueberry patches and colorful, aromatic moss-carpeted forests in search of grizzly and black bear scat. Read more here…