Within one or two or three weeks the cows drop their calves, and it's time for nursing. It's the time for the mother and child while they're nursing. It's a special timing for these animals to be safe and comfortable. In our area, global warming is real and climate change is real. We see that, we feel that, and we know it because we are so close to the earth because we survive by subsistence living.
Tundra is wetland.
The permanent frost is thawing out, for example, in a strip of land between two bodies of water one lake runs into another, and the lake runs into the river and on and on. That's how we're losing a lot of lakes. We're losing a lot of fish habitats, their spawning grounds and many other animal habitats. The Gwich'in Steering Committee was formed back in 1988 by the whole Gwich'in Nation. They chose four members from Canada and four from U.S., and they formed Gwich'in Steering Committee to protect the caribou and Gwich'in way of life.