Although reindeer are native to the ... of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. And, in the Swedish Lapland highlands by the Torne, a Sami couple has been taming and herding reindeer for 30 years.

In fact, the non-native reindeer—first shipped to Alaska from Siberia in 1892 to help feed the Inuit people (a case of mistaken benevolence by the US government)—are inherently herding animals.

Ryan Tucker Jones brings us to the rough water of the Bering Strait in the 1980s, when environmental activist organizations Seas Shepherd and Greenpeace crossed the Strait from Alaska to ...