Presidential Polar Bear Post Card Project No. 252 - 10.6.16

I've done something like this before, but the image of a mother bear protecting her cub is a powerful one for me -- and something very much like what we witnessed last September as a large male bear emerged from the fog on a gravel bar north of Kaktovik... Hidden is the prompt here for #inktober2016 Already enough hardship and challenge living in the Arctic climes. The polar bears can deal with each other, but they are powerless when confronted with the decidedly unnatural extremes of climate change.