FILE- Charles Lampe, president of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation and a city council member, poses for a portrait outside his home, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
The village of Kaktovik is seen at the edge of Barter Island in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
FILE- Edwin Solomon, 18, at right, stands in the wind and snow while filling up a truck with regular gas at a price of $7.50 a gallon, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
The snow-covered coastal plain area of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is seen, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, near Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A polar bear and cubs search for scraps in a large pile of bowhead whale bones left from the village's subsistence hunting at the end of an unused airstrip on a spit of land near the village, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Snow covers the mountains of the Brooks Range in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, near Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Robert Thompson, an Inupiaq hunter and polar bear guide who opposes oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, poses for a portrait at the village community center and city hall, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
A resident walks up a street as the sun rises Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
FILE- A stop sign is seen on Nanook Ave., a word taken from the Inupiaq word for polar bear, in an undeveloped area at the edge of the village Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
Grave markers are seen at the village's cemetery facing the Kaktovik Lagoon and the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
The village of Kaktovik is seen from across the waters of Pipsuk Bight, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Kaktovik, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)