Some of my readers possibly recall my recounting Alaskan bush pilot flying experiences in the Arctic, several years ago. What I find nowadays is that this helicopter job in 1969 taught me a lot about the ecological realities of the Alaska’s North Slope tundra, which has since become a foundation for my perceiving global climate changes in that 50th state.

It is getting pretty rough up there for those residents, native or cheechakos, as the permafrost is melting under their feet. Effects are reverberating through entire ecosystems.

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