Calls on Congress to put this special place off-limits to oil and gas development
Members of the Porcupine caribou herd enter the mountain valleys of the Arctic Refuge, where they find lush vegetation. Caribou are constantly feeding even while migration in order to gain enough weight for the meager winter months. Arctic Refuge, Brooks Range, Alaska. Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com
Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–January 26, 2015. The following is a statement from Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen:
“We applaud and thank President Obama for adopting a conservation plan that for the first time proposes to designate a large portion of the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge as wilderness to protect it from exploitation and development. We call on Congress to follow the President’s lead.
“Known as ‘The Sacred Place Where Life Begins’ to Alaska Native communities and teeming with rare wildlife, this is a place of incalculable beauty and value, to be protected like Yellowstone and Yosemite, not turned into another polluted oil patch.”
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