Pondering impact of drilling off remote northwest Alaska

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To archaeologist Richard E. "Rick" Reanier, the 10-foot-high mound on a sandy spit on the coast of northwest Alaska was no mere pile of sand.

Circling in front, he found the top of an old kerosene tin. Around the side, he turned over a rusty door from a nearly century-old cast iron stove. Brushing away some sand, he uncovered the ruins of an entrance corridor to an Inupiat house made of sod and driftwood.

Beyond this stretch of beach lies the vast Chukchi Sea, stretching from eastern Siberia to the Alaskan coast on the edge of the Arctic. For centuries, Native Alaskan Inupiat have roamed these shores hunting bowhead whales, bearded seals, walruses and caribou.

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Howard Schneider 17 Aug, 2011

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