10 More Years
Victory Protects Arctic Breeding Ground
Grassroots and courtroom pressures by several environmental groups have finally convinced the Bush administration to postpone oil and gas leasing in most of the Teshekpuk Lake area of Alaska’s Western Arctic Reserve for a decade. More than 200,000 citizen comments joined warnings from biologists and wildlife managers calling for preservation of this pristine breeding ground for migratory birds and caribou. The next push will be for legislation to permanently protect this world-class wildlife habitat.