The lure of gold that brought thousands of fortune hunters to the northwest edge of the continent a century ago remains powerful in Nome, the hub town for Alaska’s Bering Strait region.Īmong those who felt the pull was Alexei Klutchnikov.
This story is part of an ArcticToday series on the changing Bering Sea - and what those transformations mean for fish, wildlife and people. It’s also changing very quickly - and those changes offer a preview of the changes in store for other parts of the Arctic.
The Bering Sea region, the Pacific gateway to the Arctic Ocean, is home to ecosystems on land and in the ocean that are both abundant and fragile.
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