"And that raises the likelihood of human-bear interactions and conflict." In the Inupiat village of Kaktovik on Alaska's North Slope, posters warn people to be on the lookout for polar bears.
A land of caribou, whales and polar bears Kaktovik is 670 miles (1,078 km) north of Anchorage, on Barter Island, between the Arctic Ocean and Alaska’s North Slope, an area of vast, treeless ...