Every spring, Gail Ann Raddi of Inuvik brings her family out to their camp as often as she can. Many people have cabins at Husky Lakes on the Inuvik Tuk Highway. In the spring time, they can reach the camp by snowmobile.
The warm weather in the Mackenzie Delta region brings a lot of people outdoors like Gail Ann Raddi and her family. She said she likes to spend a week at a time out with the clan as they fish and enjoy the sun.
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Posted: May 03, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: May 3
Nellie Pokiak, left, with her son, Warren. Nellie died last week at age 66.(Submitted by Warren Pokiak)
People throughout the Northwest Territories are mourning the loss of Tuktoyaktuk elder Nellie Pokiak.
She died last week at the age of 66. Her son Warren Pokiak said she was a very respected member of the Tuktoyaktuk community. My mother was an outspoken person. Kind, always nice to everybody. Welcomed anybody into her house in Tuk and let them try different traditional foods, said Warren. She will always forever be in my heart.
Nellie was born at the mouth of Anderson River which Warren said is called Stanton and is east of Tuktoyaktuk, between Inuvik and Paulatuk. She raised her family of four in Tuktoyaktuk with her husband, Frank.
Earth’s ice melting more quickly
A study published in the Journal of Cryosphere suggests ice is melting 57 per cent faster than in the previous three decades. Altogether, an estimated 28 trillion tonnes of ice have melted away since the mid-1990s.
Melting land ice added enough water to the ocean during this time period to raise the global sea level by 3.5 centimetres on average. Mountain glacier ice loss accounted for 22 per cent of the annual totals of sea level rise.
Ice tracking technology
In Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T., the Canadian-based social enterprise Sea-Ice Monitoring And Real Time Information for Coastal Environments has installed sensors near Husky Lakes to monitor ice thickness. For residents, it makes a huge difference not having to guess ice thickness gives harvesters and travellers more confidence when travelling across the ice.