The condition of the sea ice around Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., has been “really good” for hunting and long-distance travel this winter, according to an elder living in the Arctic community.
But Robert Kuptana said it isn’t always like that. In fact, the long-time hunter and trapper said, for the past few years there has been a lot of what he calls rough ice.
“It has to do with the temperature,” he explained. If it doesn’t get cold enough, the ice isn’t strong when wind and ocean currents push against it, he said. That can cause the ice to break and for ice fragments to
