Can anyone imagine those first caribou hunters who followed herds across the Bering land bridge ( and sometimes followed them back to Siberia) and what they faced? Prehistoric bears that stood AT THE SHOULDER taller than humans that could outrun a horse.This is why my military background gave rise to an early thesis of a largely coastal migration in skin boats ( accepted for my degree though dismissed by my chair who never once sailed the ocean.)
I am waiting for our cheecakos on 'THE ALASKAN EXPERIMENT' to blunder into the most deadly of alaskan mammals ( sourdoughs all agree the mosquitos and no see ums are the real killers)---A bull moose in rut.
Fact is, more people are injured or killed by moose in Alaska than all the polar,grizz,black and kodiak brownies combined.
"If we have a race war, I'm siding with the bears."- John Muir