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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska is an irreplaceable wilderness, and a home to birds, grizzlies, rare muskoxen, polar bears, and other wildlife. The 1.5 million acre coastal plain of the Refuge is also the birthing and nursery grounds for the 130,000 member Porcupine Caribou herd, one of the hemisphere's largest caribou herds. The Gwich'in Indians, one of America.s last subsistence cultures, depend upon the caribou for food and as the foundation of their culture and traditions. But the oil industry and its allies in the White House and Congress are lobbying hard to open the refuge's 1.5 million acre Coastal Plain -- the area the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called "the center of wildlife activity" for the entire refuge -- to oil drilling. Early in 2002, the United States Senate is expected to vote on opening the Refuge to drilling.

To learn more about the effort to save the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, visit:

• http://www.wilderness.org/arctic
• http://www.alaskacoalition.org
• http://www.alaskawild.org/

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