The news that polar bears were consuming more land-based foods, such as bird eggs, geese and caribou – the results of a study from the American Museum of Natural History in New York last year – was exactly the sort of optimism people had been looking for in the polar bear's sad story.
Readers may remember one of Palin's other moves into TV, Sarah Palin's Alaska, which featured "fun" stuff such as caribou hunting and cutting down Sitka Spruce trees at a logging camp.
Victoria's Secret, a lingerie brand that sends out around 400m catalogues each year, switched to alternative paper for its catalogues and took a public stance on caribou conservation.
Delayed by heavy snow and a late melt, tens of thousands of caribou are on the move, migrating to their traditional calving and summer feeding grounds.
They wore different uniforms with blue puttees and caribou buttons and most importantly, their losses were out of all proportion to their size.
The firm's worries over threatened caribou habitats.This may not seem to have much to do with Mr Katzenmeyer's job, but Limited Brands is one of several firms giving a new twist to the idea of corporate social responsibility by putting money and effort into causes previously championed by activist groups.
(Mr Dugdorpat insists that displaced Alaskan caribou might warm themselves on the oil pipelines).
For the "people of the caribou" the traditional calving grounds of the deer, which lie in the 1002 refuge, are sacred.A good part of the land, however, is owned by the better-off local Eskimos from Kaktovik.
Yet instead of abandoning the practice altogether, officials are still teaching the method to trappers.Michael McDonald, a biologist in the division of wildlife conservation, explains that the numbers of wolves have to be kept down in some areas to allow the caribou herds to expand.
They also hunt the caribou; but they prefer to go after bowhead whales, and some are involved in the oil industry.
FOR the 150,000 Inuit who live in four countries around the Arctic rim, the warming of one of the world's coldest places is making a life of hunting seal and caribou and herding reindeer more arduous.
