Eva Holland is a freelance writer for Outside magazine but she also does work for National Geographic and other publications.

I write mostly narrative features about outdoor adventures, team sports and how we connect to the wilderness and environmental issues.  There are all kinds of ways that  we interact with the wilderness.

I did an article for Hakai magazine.  This publication is fairly new and it covers coastal science and societies.  It's pretty neat.

My story was on polar bears.  I went to a small village along the Bering Strait where the village is setting up a non-lethal bear patrol.  I spent a lot of time with the polar bear patrol but I didn't see any polar bears.

In February it was just solid ice.  The patrol was training and working with all sorts of  ideas to be a no-kill patrol.  The primary purpose is of course to protect the town but their goal is to not kill bears unnecessarily while protecting the people. So they have noisemakers, air horns, pepper spray and other non-lethal methods to try to discourage the bears from coming into the village. 

The bears' habitat is diminishing and the villagers are really trying to work with the changing situation and be part of conservation.