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)

The village of Kaktovik is seen from across the waters of Pipsuk Bight, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in 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 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)

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)

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)

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)