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WildAlert News December 2006 (12/06/2006)
Victory in court for National Forest roadless areas. Go Wild in California's Cache Creek Wilderness. Save open space and read about the places you helped protect in 2006.
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WildAlert News February 2007 (02/05/2007)
President releases FY 2008 Budget. Go Wild at Colorado's Little Snake Area. Update on roadless area protection. Quick updates on the Green Budget, clean energy, payments to counties and monster cutbacks to staffing at National Wildlife Refuges.
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WildAlert News July 2007 (07/03/2007)
Good News from the Arctic Refuge and Tongass National Forest; Protect California's Sequoia National Forest from ORV Use; Visit the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness in North Carolina's Nantahala National Forest; Energy Appropriations Bills Advance; One Hundred Thousand People Tell BLM to Protect the Upper Green River Valley in Wyoming.
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WildAlert News November 2006 (11/01/2006)
Plummeting funds for National Wildlife Refuges force massive cuts in staff and closing of some refuges. Go Wild in Wyoming's Upper Green River Valley. New California wilderness designated.
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WildAlert News November 2007 (11/05/2007)
Update on California Wildfires and Alaska's Teshekpuk Lake; Take a Moment to Help Montana's Bitterroot National Forest; Global Warming and Forest Fires; Accelerating Oil and Gas Development; Hearing on Proposed Road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge; New Wyoming Wilderness Bill Introduced; House Passes Virginia Ridge and Valley Act; Six Members of Congress Honored for Refuge System Efforts.
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WildAlert News October 2007 (10/04/2007)
Good News to Report on Efforts to Protect Spotted Owl Habitat; When a Burning Fire is Nature's Best Friend; National Wildlife Refuge Week; Natural Dividends Report Released; Updates on Wilderness Bills for California and Colorado.
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WildAlert News September 2006 (09/06/2006)
Here they come, rarin' to drill the Arctic Refuge and Teshekpuk Lake. National Park Services releases final management policies. A look at the fate of wilderness bills late in the 109th Congress. The Interior Department's Inspector General looks into allegations that Utah BLM made closed-door commitments to industry.
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WILDALERT NEWS: January 2006 Update (01/06/2006)
Glastebury Mountain, VT. Arctic Refuge safe, for now. Governor wants full protection for roadless areas in Virginia.
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WILDALERT NEWS: May 2005 Update (05/05/2005)
Roadless Rule overturned, Arctic Refuge update, archaeological resources in National Monuments in Arizona, NLCS anniversary, your gifts doubled for limited time.
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WILDALERT NEWS: November 2005 Update (11/02/2005)
North Cascades. Key Arctic Refuge vote. Top 10 Halloween Horribles. Ojito Wilderness bill passes Congress. New report: Western BLM lands suffering. Roadless Rule repeal challenged. Court rules public must be included in Forest Service decisions.
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WILDALERT NEWS: September 2005 update (09/06/2005)
Hurricane Katrina: human and environmental toll, Tongass National Forest, Oil Lobby shamelessly exploiting Hurrican Katrina to further agenda, 2006 Wilderness Society calendar.
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WILDALERT: An Offering of Thanks (11/22/2005)
A special Thanksgiving message from Eleanor Huffines, Anchorage, Alaska.
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WILDALERT: Arctic Refuge Update (11/04/2005)
In a close vote along mostly party lines on Nov. 3rd, the Senate approved the 2006 Budget Reconciliation bill, which would, among other things, open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil development. The focus next turns to the House, where a significant number of Republicans are outspoken in their opposition to Arctic Refuge drilling in the Budget Bill, thereby casting serious doubt on whether a bill with Arctic drilling in it can pass the House at all.
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WILDALERT: ARCTIC REFUGE WIN! (12/21/2005)
On December 21, 2005, by a vote of 56-44, the Senate refused to invoke cloture on the defense appropriations bill, rejecting Sen. Ted Stevens' (R-AK) attempts to attach Arctic Refuge drilling on the Defense Appropriations bill.
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WILDALERT: Cabeza Prieta Proposed Plan Offers No Help For Wildlife Refuge (08/30/2005)
Proposed management plan bodes ill for desert wildlife refuge. Motorized use violates desert sanctuary's Wilderness.
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WILDALERT: Congress Approves Budget Conference Report (04/29/2005)
In two close votes on April 28, 2005, the House and Senate approved a Budget Conference Report that paves the way for a bill that could open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. This campaign is far from over, though. Here's how you can help.
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WILDALERT: Critical Vote on Arctic Refuge This Week--Calls Needed (10/31/2005)
Senate to vote on Budget Reconciliation package that would allow oil drilling in the Arctic Refuge; House to vote next week.
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WILDALERT: Don't Let Yukon Flats be Traded Away for Oil Development (03/07/2005)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has described the 11 million acres of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska as a "natural, virtually undisturbed ecosystem." Despite that wholly accurate description, the agency is poised to deal away some of the refuge's premier wilderness lands for oil and gas development.
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WILDALERT: Great News--House Removes Arctic Refuge Drilling (11/10/2005)
The House Rules Committee has removed from the House Budget Reconciliation bill the provision that would have opened the Arctic Refuge to development. The provision that would have made it easier to drill for oil and gas in coastal areas currently off limits to development was also removed.
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WILDALERT: Help Us Stop Gale Norton's Last Public Lands Giveaway (03/22/2006)
In her final weeks at the Department of Interior, Secretary Gale Norton is spearheading an effort to streamline a policy to make it easier for states and counties to build highways on public lands. The end result of this last-minute maneuver could be the construction of thousands of miles of roads on some of our most unspoiled public lands.
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WILDALERT: Join us at Arctic Refuge Action Day, Sept 20 in Wash, DC (09/09/2005)
Join thousands of Americans for Arctic Refuge Action Day in Washington, DC, on September 20. Sign up now!
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WILDALERT: Renewed Arctic Refuge Battle in Congress (03/14/2006)
Big Oil and its buddies in Washington are up to their old tricks again. In a sign of just how strong the drilling obsession is for some politicians, a dangerous provision to drill the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been slipped into the Senate's Budget Resolution, again.
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WILDALERT: Senate Votes for Arctic Refuge Drilling (03/17/2006)
On March 16, 2006, the Senate narrowly passed (51-49) an FY07 budget resolution that could lead to opening the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling. The extraordinarily close vote on this resolution is an indication of how much your emails and phone calls helped, and just how controversial this issue remains. The battle for the Refuge now moves to the House, which is expected to take up its own FY07 budget resolution the week of March 26th.
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WILDALERT: Special Earth Day Thank You to an Arctic Refuge Hero (04/22/2005)
While the energy bill, including an Arctic Refuge drilling provision, passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, more Representatives voted against Arctic Refuge drilling than in a similar vote in 2003. Meanwhile, Congressional negotiators are deciding whether to include language in the final Budget Resolution that would pave the way for drilling.
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WILDALERT: Your Action Still Needed for Arctic Refuge (04/11/2005)
As Congress gets back to work this week, we know you are as interested as we are in next steps for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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WILDALERT: Your Representative Can Stop Arctic Refuge Drilling in its Tracks! (03/27/2006)
Two weeks ago, the U.S. Senate passed a budget resolution that included a provision to drill the protected Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Despite being soundly defeated by the efforts of millions of conservation-minded Americans last year, drilling pushers have pledged to do everything they can to force their Arctic Refuge drilling plan through Congress this year. Your Representative can make sure this bad idea stop in the U.S. House of Representatives. Please call today! A vote is scheduled for March 29th.
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Wilderness Report #116 (5/7/04) (05/07/2004)
Maine Coastal Island Wilderness - Mt. Hood Wilderness poll - Summary of Wildeness Legislation in 108th Congress (updated)
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Wilderness Report #136 (3/11/05) (03/11/2005)
Arctic drilling passes Senate. Utah National Forests wilderness proposal. Two book reviews.
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Wilderness Report #159 (02/24/2006)
More towns pass resolutions in support of Wilderness for Dona Ana County, NM. Communities pass resolutions opposing Valle Vidal energy development. Wilderness Society honors three Arctic Refuge heroes.
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“EPCA III” Fact Sheet  (06/06/2008)
The Bureau of Land Management's “EPCA III” report paints a highly misleading portrait of the extent to which the development of federal onshore oil and gas resources are “inaccessible” to development. Despite the
report’s implications to the contrary, most federal onshore oil and gas resources are available for leasing and drilling, and have been for a long time.
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100 Years of Conservation, 100 Days of Public Lands Assault (04/21/2004)
America has been a global leader in the protection of wild places since the time of Theodore Roosevelt. Today, our 100-year legacy is at risk, with some of America’s most wild places threatened by overzealous oil and gas development and harmful logging. These are a few of the national treasures that have been under attack in the past 100 days.
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A Month of Drilling and Spilling (04/06/2005)
In March 2005 alone, numerous incidents of oil industry pollution, accidents and cover ups were reported in Alaska and around the world.
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About Arctic Action (07/21/2005)
Arctic Refuge Action is a coalition of conservation, religious and Native American groups representing millions of Americans who believe the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge should remain wild, unspoiled, and free of oil rigs.
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Administration's Record on Public Lands at Earth Day 2004 (04/21/2004)
Bush Administration policies are a significant and often radical departure from past approaches to stewardship. The move is away from balance and conservation for future generations and toward a short-term orientation that puts industrial development ahead of long-term conservation. Key examples of these changes are set out below.
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Analysis of Senate Energy Committee's FY06 Budget Reconciliation Recommendations (10/27/2005)
Analysis of Senate Energy Committee's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling Provisions in their FY2006 Budget Reconciliation Recommendations (analysis courtesy Trustees for Alaska).
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Arctic Myths vs. Facts (10/04/2001)
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Myths vs. Facts
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Arctic Oil vs. Imports (04/05/2002)
Arctic Refuge oil won't make a dent in oil imports!
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Arctic Reality Check -- Drilling Into The Legislation (10/07/2005)
A close look at proposed Arctic Refuge drilling legislation shoots massive holes into drilling proponents' claims that oil development could and would be done in the "right way" or in an "environmentally sensitive way." If drilling could really be done without harming wildlife or the ecology of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, then why is the proposed legislation full of clauses that grant exemptions, weaken standards, cut out the regular checks and balances, and then dress it all up to look far more protective than it really is?
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Arctic Refuge "2,000-acre" Myth Map (03/09/2005)
Map of what 2,000-acres of oil development would look like by drilling proponents' math
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Arctic Refuge Drilling and Gas Prices: Not a Solution, Now or Later (05/08/2008)
Proponents of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge opportunistically and incorrectly point to rising
gasoline prices as a reason to drill for oil in one of America’s last wild places. If oil were discovered in commercial
quantities, it would take 10 years before a single drop could be produced. Recent U.S. Energy Information Administration data indicates that in 2030, when oil discovered in the Arctic Refuge would be near peak production levels, the effect at the gas pump would be about two pennies per gallon.
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Arctic Refuge Oil Would Not Significantly Affect Oil Prices (03/09/2005)
Fact Sheet
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Birds: From the Arctic to Your Backyard (06/13/2008)
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge provides vital habitat for some of America’s most spectacular wildlife. Birds, in particular, rely heavily on the Arctic Refuge. When the weather turns warm, the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge becomes a haven for millions of migrating birds, affording them a safe place to feed, mate and nest.
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Bush Rhetoric vs His Record (08/08/2003)
Bush Rhetoric vs His Record
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Climate Change Implications for Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge (03/01/2008)
Alaska is experiencing visible signs of climate change, including melting permafrost, drying wetlands, and increased fire activity. To better understand what changes are taking place, and how land managers might deal with these changes on public lands, Dr. Wendy Loya, an ecologist with The Wilderness Society (TWS), initiated a project to apply climate change scenarios to Alaska’s federal wildlands. Together with TWS GIS analyst Anna Springsteen, and in partnership with the University of Alaska’s SNAP (Scenarios Network for Alaska Planning) program, Dr. Loya used temperature and precipitation data from five down-scaled global climate models to estimate how growing season length, climate variability, and water availability might change.
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Department of Interior's Wilderness Assault (06/30/2003)
In early April, 2003, The Department of the Interior (DOI) launched a devastating three-pronged attack on unprotected wilderness-quality lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These interconnected decisions - all made during the week of April 7 through 11 - open the door for a broad wilderness assault that is intended to lead to more drilling, mining, and road construction on much of America's remaining wild but unprotected western public lands.
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DOE Drilling and Imports (03/18/2002)
Department of Energy Report Shows that Oil Drilling in Arctic Refuge Would Have Negligible Effect on Oil Imports
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Factsheet: America's Treasured Wildlife Refuges on the Brink (03/28/2007)
Several years of stagnant or declining budgets have exacerbated the more than $2.5 billion operations and maintenance backlog at refuges, and have forced a dramatic 20 percent reduction in staff nationwide. This factsheet details effects at refuges across the country.
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Factsheet: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (01/13/2005)
There is no greater place in America to experience wild nature, hike, fish, hunt, raft, camp, or simply lose oneself to the natural rhythms of the land. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's 1.5 million acre Coastal Plain "the center for wildlife activity" for the entire refuge. But the oil industry and its allies in the White House and Congress are lobbying hard to open this part of the refuge to oil drilling.
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Factsheet: Arctic Refuge Drilling and Gas Prices: Drilling Nets About a Penny per Gallon, 20 Years From Now (08/07/2006)
Proponents of drilling Arctic National Wildlife Refuge point to rising gasoline prices as a reason to drill one of America’s last wild places. But in reality, Arctic Refuge oil would amount to a drop in the bucket of the oil market. The U.S. Department of Energy’s own Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that even twenty years down the road, when Arctic Refuge oil is at or near peak production, gas prices would be affected by about a penny per gallon.
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Factsheet: Fact & Fiction About the Mining Subtitle in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (11/28/2005)
Facts about the mining provision in the FY06 budget reconciliation bill.
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Factsheet: Harmful Public Land Provisions in the FY06 House Reconciliation Bill (12/06/2005)
A list and description of provisions in the House version of the FY2006 Budget Reconciliation bill that harm public lands.
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Factsheet: National Wildlife Refuge System (01/13/2005)
Gracing the American landscape from the Arctic Ocean to the Florida Keys is a network for protecting wildlife unrivaled in the world: the National Wildlife Refuge System. Managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and encompassing more than 95 million acres, these sanctuaries are unmatched in their geographic scope, diversity of habitat, and the sheer number and variety of species they shelter. But numerous inappropriate activities still take place on our refuges, such as chemical-intensive crop farming, jet-ski use, oil and gas development, and even military drills.
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Factsheet: North Slope Oil Development: Air and Water Pollution, Spills, and Sprawl (08/10/2006)
Three decades of oil industry public relations have drilled away at one familiar theme that belies the reality on the ground: that drilling can be done in an "environmentally responsible" fashion. The reality is that the sprawling industrial infrastructure and pollution associated with drilling on the North Slope continue to have pervasive, lasting, and serious environmental consequences.
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Factsheet: Oil Development Would Harm Arctic Refuge Wildlife (11/02/2005)
Study after study consistently proves that wildlife has been harmed by development on the North Slope of Alaska. In 2003, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a study that documented major cumulative
impacts of oil development on wildlife, wilderness, and Native American cultures across an extensive
area of the North Slope.
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Factsheet: Potential Oil from America's Arctic Refuge Is No Solution for High Oil Prices or Foreign Oil Dependence (02/18/2005)
Details on 2005 EIA Analysis of impact of Arctic oil on imports and prices.
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Factsheet: Public Lands (01/04/2005)
The federally managed public lands, owned equally by all Americans, cover almost a million square miles, or 623 million acres. That is more than 25 percent of the U.S. land base. About one-sixth of the total has been given the highest form of protection: inclusion by Congress in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Our nation has been the pioneer in protection of lands and wildlife, inspired by the vision of passing on this natural legacy to future generations.
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Factsheet: What Might The West Look Like in 10 Years? (11/21/2005)
A snapshot of future land use and population changes as they impact public lands across the West.
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Fuzzy Numbers: Leasing Revenue Projections from Arctic Refuge Drilling Don’t Add Up (03/02/2005)
Fuzzy Numbers: Leasing Revenue Projections from Arctic Refuge Drilling Don’t Add Up
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Global Warming and U.S. Public Lands: America's wild lands are under threat, and will play key role in any climate change solution (03/24/2008)
Global warming poses an unprecedented threat to our national parks, forests, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges. At the same time, protecting these natural places is more important now than ever before. Our country’s public lands store carbon and offer one of our best hopes for sustaining the plants, animals, clean water and air, and recreational opportunities that are important to our heritage.
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How the Budget Resolution and Budget Reconciliation Threaten the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (02/18/2005)
Some proponents of oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have indicated that they may attempt to move their proposal as part of the federal budget process. They would do so only because they know that they do not have the votes to move the drilling proposal through the normal legislative process.
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More Oily Myths: Claims For Arctic Refuge Drilling Are Fabricated (07/11/2006)
Factsheet detailing how a fake grassroots organization called "Americans for American Energy" is claiming in an Arkansas print ad that drilling the Arctic Refuge would "solve" America’s "energy problems. " This claim is wrong, as are their claims that drilling the Arctic Refuge would have any significant effect on gas prices or oil imports.
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Public Land Sales Proposed in FY 2007 Budget (02/09/2006)
President Bush’s budget for FY07, ignoring the recent defeat of similar proposals in Congress, is proposing to sell off nearly $1 billion worth of Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management lands to raise money for the federal treasury.
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Security Does Not Require Drilling for Oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (10/04/2001)
Oil and national security: Security does not require drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Stunts to Buy Support for Oil Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (07/26/2006)
Pro-drilling House Members are trying YET AGAIN to use any excuse to pursue their myopic plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The most recent Arctic drill bill in the House dedicates speculative leasing revenues from Arctic Refuge drilling to a list of renewable energy incentives. But this is just one of a myriad of tactics, gimmicks, and schemes used by drilling proponents over time to buy votes for protecting the Refuge. Here are some other ways they have tried to offer up these speculative revenues to open our nation’s largest and wildest refuge.
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The 2,000-Acre Hoax (10/03/2005)
The suggestion that only 2,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge would be needed for oil development neglects to include associated development of roads, airstrips, living quarters and other impacts.
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The Arctic's Oil and National Security (10/04/2001)
Oil and national security: Security does not require drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Oil in American Wilderness - Values at Stake (03/13/2001)
The oil industry is using scare tactics to open up America's sensitive wildlands and coastal areas to oil and gas drilling. Destroying these special lands and waters will do little to meet America's energy needs.
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Why You Can't Trust the Oil Companies (10/30/2001)
The oil industry claims it can develop the Arctic Refuge in an environmentally sensitive manner. But the industry's track record in Prudhoe Bay and elsewhere in Alaska is not one to be trusted.
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Wilderness Act Handbook -- 40th Anniversary Edition (2004) (05/04/2004)
This handbook is designed as a reference for those working to protect what is left of wild America. It sets forth the relevant laws, regulations, and policies that govern the creation, expansion, and management of the National Wilderness Preservation System, and addresses important wildenress management issues. The Wilderness Act is printed in its entirety, along with interpretation and excerpts from and analysis of subsequent legislation that has influenced the designation or management of wilderness.
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Klamath Appeal (07/03/2002)
Wilderness Society Appeal of June 4, 2002, Finding of No Significant Impact on Implementation of an Agricultural Program on Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Selection of "No Action" Alternative from January 2001 Draft Environmental Assessment, and Decisions to rescind 1999 Compatibility Determination of Farming on the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges and to Reinstate a 1994 Compatibility Determination of Farming on the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuges.
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Klamath Refuges Complaint (10/29/2002)
Lawsuit challenges farming in Klamath Wildlife Refuges
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110th Congress: Agenda of American Values (12/08/2006)
Agenda for the 110th Congress released by Rep. Nick J. Rahall, Chairman-elect of the Committee on Natural Resources.
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60-Day Notice of Intent letter to Colorado BLM, re: Violations to Endangered Species Act (10/14/2005)
The Center for Native Ecosystems, Colorado Environmental Coalition, and The Wilderness Society provided a 60-Day Notice Letter of Intent to sue to the Colorado BLM due to violations of the Endangered Species Act, as a result of an ongoing debate between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the BLM -- do the needs of endangered species need to be addressed before an area is opened to oil and gas leasing, or can the BLM wait until an actual drilling permit has been submitted?
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Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus Members as of September 14, 2006 (09/14/2006)
This list includes 100 members of the Congressional Wildlife Refuge Caucus from 37 states.
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Gale Norton Resignation Letter (03/10/2006)
Resignation letter of Interior Secretary Gale Norton, sent to President Bush.
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Letter from Retired Generals to Senate on Arctic Refuge (12/17/2005)
Letter from retired U.S. military generals, to Senate leaders, expressing strong opposition to including Arctic Refuge drilling on the FY06 Defense spending bill.
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Letter from Senate Budget Committee Members on Keeping Arctic Refuge Out of Budget Process (03/06/2006)
Letter from nine U.S. Budget Committee Democrats to Budget Committee Chairman Gregg and Ranking Member Conrad, calling on them to oppose any provisions in the fiscal year 2007 budget resolution that would allow drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Letter to Gale Norton on Wilderness Rollbacks (04/08/2003)
Letter to Gale Norton on Wilderness Rollbacks.
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Letter to House Resources Committee on Arctic Refuge (08/04/2005)
This letter from Jeb Bradley and dozens of cosignors was sent to Richard Pombo. The letter expresses the Representatives' strong opposition to opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy development.
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National Congress of American Indians Letter Supporting the Gwich’in and Opposing Arctic Refuge Drilling (11/02/2005)
National Congress of American Indians opposes riders on budget bills that alter existing law, which circumvent tribal consultation and ultimately undermine tribes' right to self-determination. NCAI opposes this move to permit drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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