Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Campaign
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: A Legacy of Conservation
In the far northeast corner of Alaska lies one of America’s great natural treasures, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Its nearly 20 million acres comprise one of the last places on earth where an intact expanse of arctic and subarctic lands remain protected. And yet this remote and undisturbed wilderness — a last vestige of the American frontier that helped shape and define our national identity – sits today at the crossroads between our short-sighted reliance on oil and a lasting conservation legacy for our children. Critically important in its own right, whether to drill the Coastal Plain of the Arctic Refuge for oil or protect it as Wilderness is also a defining environmental issue of our time. Nothing less than the conservation soul of the country is at stake.
