May 24—NUIQSUT — To an untrained eye, the endless expanse of Alaska's North Slope tundra looks empty. The flat landscape, only broken up by ice formations shaped by the wind blowing in from the Beaufort Sea, is home to caribou, arctic foxes and a host of migratory birds. Residents of the Iñupiaq village of Nuiqsut travel the Colville Delta by snowmachine in the winter and boat in the summer to hunt and fish for subsistence.