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Tag Archives: arctic
Polar Bear Blog – About a Pingo
Still out there… somewhere. Here’s a story about how everything began in the meantime… From ‘Across Time and Tundra’, a history of the Inuvialuit People… Long ago, the Inuvialuit lands were not as they are today. Instead of countless rivers and lakes, the land was barren and mountainous, and game was very scarce. But the pingo or ice hill called Ibyuk, which today stands overlooking the town of Tuktoyaktuk, was already in existence, and on … Continue reading
Polar Bear Blog – Coppermine… Finally! Sort Of!
If this is posted, I’m still out on the land… will be back May 1st. Anyway, here’s a quick note from Kugluktuk… Coppermine! After all these years, I finally make it to Kugluktuk, practically arctic spitting distance from Bloody Falls… and I’m not even spending a day here. Crazy. Kugluktuk means ‘place of rapids’. The airport has signs of the Copper Inuit oral history and while there are many mentions of Hearne and Bloody Falls, … Continue reading
Posted in Churchill Manitoba News
Tagged arctic, coppermine, inuit, kugluktuk, polar bear blog, samuel hearne
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Polar Bear Blog – Fluffy Snow and Off We Go
Well looks like we’re heading out to Prince Albert sound, its pretty white out there today, soft snow falling to me it looks like the makings of a real blizzard but there’s a glow of the sun behind the clouds so who knows – that’s what guides are for… Wynniatt Bay to the north still sounds like their in blizzard mode. The helicopter researchers seem to be grounded a fair bit and even the local … Continue reading
Polar Bear Blog – Onward to Ulukhaktok
On my way to Ulukhaktok for a couple weeks to look for polar bears and wolves and stuff, pretty excited about it. Ulukhaktok, roughly translating as ‘way harder to pronounce than Holman’, is one of my favourite arctic places. Ulukhaktok, formerly called Holman, is a small community (maybe 300 people?) on the southwest corner of Victoria Island. The name actually translates to ‘place where material for Ulus is found’ but I think that’s actually the … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic, beaufort sea, grolar bear, holman, northwest passage, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear grizzly hybrid, polar grizz, sea ice, ulukhaktok, vitoria island
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Polar Bear Blog – Fred Bruemmer’s The Arctic
Fairly often, I find myself picking up one of Fred Bruemmer’s books and scanning through them again, even though I have read all of them over and over and over. Bruemmer was one of the first modern arctic explorers, environmentalists and writers, travelling the arctic in the 1960s and 1970s as well as one of the first polar bear photographers at Cape Churchill. An amazing life and an amazing writer. His work also puts some … Continue reading
Posted in Bear Season, Canadian Arctic, Cape Churchill, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic, churchill manitoba, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear habitat, polar bears churchill, polar bears' habitat, sea ice, sea ice arctic, seal
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Polar Bear Blog – Spring Seals, Wolves and Rangers
Its hunting time in the arctic. Leads, temporary cracks in the ice, have opened up and there are some nice floe edges around – where the ice meets the open ocean. Bears, seals and everything gather around these areas, its a ‘busy’ place. And, of course, out here you find seals giving birth in snow dens and polar bears looking for seals giving birth in snow dens. It is a bit of a mixed bag … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic, canadian rangers, churchill manitoba, churchill manitoba news, floe edge, military exercise, move churchill, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bear news, polar bears, polar bears churchill, sea ice
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Polar Bear Blog – Frozen Planet
Well, we are just entering the most critical time of year for polar bears. Many cubs have emerged from the dens and seal hunting season is just beginning. We should have some pics from of new cubs soon but our friend from Watchee Lodge took 11,000 pictures so… it might take a while to sort through them. Judging from the spike in my site visits, it also appears that its arctic documentary season, I think … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Arctic, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic, churchill manitoba, churchill polar bears, frozen planet, hudson bay, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bears of churchill, sea ice, western hudson bay polar bears
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Polar Bear Alley – Churchill’s Bears and Hudson Bay Winter
Well, enough polar bear politics for a while… hard to get away from that stuff though. Let’s try and figure out what the bears are up to out on the ice. Temperatures have finally levelled off, it is even up around -15C today which is literally t-shirt weather, really – assuming, of course, that you have a merino wool underlayer. However, until now, Churchill has been locked in a deep freeze since pretty much the … Continue reading
Posted in Bear Season, Canadian Arctic, Cape Churchill, Churchill Manitoba News, Climate Change and Polar Bears, Polar Bear News, Polar Bears of Churchill
Tagged arctic, canadian arctic, churchill manitoba, hudson bay ice, polar bear alley, polar bear blog, polar bears of churchill, sea ice and polar bears, sea ice patterns, western hudson bay polar bears
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