There are two important rules to follow during a stay at Nester One: Always lock the metal gates and never go outside without a shotgun.
The prospect of an up-close encounter with a polar bear is enough to make you heed these rules, should you be lucky enough to make it to this seasonal research camp within a national park that only gets about 225 visitors a year in total.
Nester One, a fenced-in Parks Canada compound with sleeping quarters for about 20 people, is the largest human habitation of any sort within Wapusk National Park, an ecologically and culturally sensitive stretch of northern
