“Never know how weather is going to be. So unpredictable nowadays.”

“The prevailing wind doesn’t seem to have changed very much, although we got stronger winds from the east. We used to get strong winds at times. Now, we sometimes get (wind) without warning as though even when the wind isn’t supposed to come.”

“I wish that what fell onto the sea ice and onto puddles could be studied. It feels greasy.”

“In the 1990s the ice caps really start to melt, which makes rock more visible. Certainly, the ice caps are melting on Devon Island. The trail we used to go to Eureka is also melting and many rocks are on the surface now.”

“Grizzlies seem to be more numerous. Cached caribou would normally not be disturbed. But some people cached at Aberdeen and they had 20 caches and every single one was emptied.”

“From the time that I was growing up to now I have been eating caribou. I know what to expect in meat and the health of caribou. Compared to years ago the percentage of caribou caught is more often unhealthy. In many ways, sores on their limbs, usually identifiable sicknesses—pus on the limbs or sores on the joints. [This] seems to occur more now then in the past.”