After waiting nearly 40 years for this….

Last week we went to Barrow to learn about market and non-market exchange at the top of the world. The economics of Barrow AK is as complex as it gets–Inupuits, tribal courts, polar bears, state run education, 4 year private native college, bowhead whales, non-profit tribal corporations, snow foxes, oil, Alaskan Native Corporations, seal skin boats, US Navy, jawbones, Coast Guard, tundra, snow owls, honey pots, whale captains, pipelines, geese, an Olympic swimming pool, a recently burnt down Mexican restaurant, $330/night hotel, and a blue football field bought by a lady from Miami.

We did not even come close to scratching the surface.

This is up in Lake Clark National Park, Alaska, near Silver Salmon…4 million acres of Coastal brown bear habitat.

About 200-230+ brown bears are here, plus black bears, grey wolves, and some moose.

Fishing was exciting to say the least.