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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Kim Murphy / The Bulletin
April 29, 2009
NUIQSUT, Alaska — The year the oil companies seriously began exploring the icy waters off the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — where Nuiqsut whalers have hunted for as long as men have wandered on dark waters — the villagers lost two bowhead.
The big whales had....