Visited: Saturday, July 8, 2023
Today - did not go as planned. We were supposed to visit Anaktuvuk visitor center, and then go on to Barrow (which, I have learned, it the name everyone here still seems to use for the city), but the weather did not cooperate. Our tour was able to visit the closed (and to be decommissioned) visitor center at Bettles, along with the Bettles Lodge, but - that, unfortunately, was it. Not a bad trip - but not what we were hoping for.
Oh, and during this trip we discovered why the "& Preserve" is there. Hunting is allowed on Preserves; it is not allowed in National Parks. So the areas where hunting happened were included as preserves, to get locals to buy in to the designation of the national park.
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