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Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 250 - 10.4.16

And when the bears arrive at the bone pile, they are hungry! #inktober2016

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 249 - 10.3.16

After their annual September whale hunt, Inupiat villagers of Kaktovik, AK collect the whale bones into a giant pile on the outskirts of town. Polar bears, still awaiting the return of arctic sea ice, scavenge the bones for every little scrap of remaining meat and sinew. #inktober2016

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 248 - 10.2.16

Understanding the InkTober drawing challenge just a little more... and there are prompts! This is great and I'll be doubling-down to make them fit the Post Card Project wherever possible. Ink it is for #inktober -- and here (for the noisy prompt) we have a very silent polar bear stalking seals. As the main prey and most reliable source of fat and nutrients for the bear, there is a direct link to the loss of sea ice and the polar bears ability to hunt. Less ice = much tougher conditions for finding food = a major threat to polar bear survival.

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 247 - 10.1.16

"The pen is mightier than the sword!" And so the Polar Bear Post Card Project will do a little cross-posting with #inktober in the coming month :) Almost a year of sending post cards to the President. Just a few more months to go!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 246 - 9.29.16

While protecting polar bears is important, the real point of this project is to advocate for removal of the Coastal Plain from any future development. 1.5 million unique and irreplaceable acres of wilderness - "Alaska's Serengeti!" Keep it wild. Keep it -- period! 
Subsequently, for those that like to read a little more, there are currently two bills before the Senate, the Alaska Economic Development and Access to Resources Act (S. 3203) and the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Improvement Act (S. 3273) which both threaten to private public lands in the interests of resource and mineral development. We need to move forward in our search for clean energy solutions, not backwards in a last minute land grab to exploit as much as possible. Onwards and upwards!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 245 - 9.29.16

Head down. Keep going. Full speed ahead!

Harts Pass No. 317

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 244 - 9.28.16

Ah, the many moods of the polar bear post card project... When they go low, we go high!

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 243 - 9.27.16

As much as this project has been about my own small way of participating in the political process, about encouraging the current administration to give due consideration to an issue that I feel strongly about, its also been an engaging way for me to raise my own personal awareness of SO many other things. That being said, please don't forget about your own participation in the process, and DO get out your vote by November 8th. No polar bear actually running for President, but if there were I bet they'd believe in taking bold steps to reduce our carbon outputs and to get a grip on global warming.

Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 242 - 9.27.16

Alas, the Presidential debates have begun... "I'm with her" - for sure! But you still kind of want a fierce mother polar bear to step in and put her wild and imposing self between our kids and the embarrassing display of ugly defensive politicking and decidedly un-Presidential discourse (mostly from the Republicans) that we've been subjected to over the last several months. Clinton, for her part, seemed to kick butt last night. She believes in the science of climate change and the impact that we have on the world -- a debate that is also settled and agreed upon by the actual scientific communinty. She is smart. She is considered. She is experienced. She is the ONLY one on last night's stage that should be President. #VoteforClimate #VoteforPolarbears