Oil Drilling in the Alaskan Wildlife Refuges
America Should Reject the Oil Businesses Plan and
Permanently Protect The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, comprising more than nineteen million acres in the northern corner of Alaska, is unique and one of the largest units of the National Wildlife system. The Arctic Refuge has long been recognized as an unparalleled place of natural beauty and ecological importance. The Arctic Refuge was established to conserve fish and wildlife populations and habitats in their natural diversity, as well as provide the opportunity for local residents to continue their subsistence way of life. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which manages the Refuge, calls it "the only conservation system unit that protects, in an undisturbed condition, a complete spectrum of the arctic ecosystems in North America." (Alaska Wild')
As early as the 1930's, leading biologists and conservationists were captivated by the......
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