Name: Nature
Genre: Documentary

Nature Episode 29.16 Bears of the Last Frontier: Arctic Wanderers

Nature Episode 29.16 Bears of the Last Frontier: Arctic Wanderers

Episode Premiere

May 22, 2011

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

Thirteen

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

Information

Episode Premiere

May 22, 2011

Genre

Documentary

Period

1982 -

Production Co

Thirteen

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

Synopsis

Chris Morgan travels to the far north of Alaska, the tiny North Slope town of Kaktovik. Itâ€™s early November and winter is coming on. But each year, the polar bears struggle for extended periods on dwindling fat reserves, waiting for the opportunity to hunt on sea ice that takes longer to freeze. In early spring, Morgan joins local hunters in Barrow, the northernmost city in Alaska, as they go out on their own hunts, facing some of the same challenges as the bears. In late spring, Morgan travels to the North Slope of the Brooks Range, where countless thousands of caribou cover the ground for miles. The grizzlies are waiting for them, as they have for thousands of years.