Many people do not know what the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge is, and how its many benefits that it brings to us all. The Alaska National Wildlife Refuge was original known as The Arctic National Life Range which was established in 1960 thanks to an article in the Sierra Bulletin Club in 1953. It wasn't until 1980 it was changed to the Alaska Nation Wildlife Refuge, it in the Northeast corner of Alaska, it lies north of the Arctic circle and 1,300 miles south of the North pole. It is a 19.2-million acre that originally just was started to support a variety of plant and animal life of any Park or Refuge in the circumpolar arctic. Many people saw the area important for ecological and evolutionary processes, and a place where indigenous life-forms could grow. But in 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act renamed "Range" to "Refuge," and increased the to area of the Refuge and assigned a big part for Wilderness, let Congress have a portion of the coastal plain for oil......
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