TITLE

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: oil field or wilderness?

AUTHOR(S)

Spitler, Amanda

PUB. DATE

November 1987

SOURCE

BioScience;Nov87, Vol. 37 Issue 10, p714

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Discusses the debate over the prospect of oil and gas drilling on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge by the U.S. Congress. Consideration of the Congressional hearings held by the House Interior Committee, the House Merchant Marine Committee, and the Senate Energy Committee; Importance of protection wildlife on the coastal plain; Impact of environmental threats and oil production in Alaska.

ACCESSION #

10227509

Tags: WILDLIFE conservation;  ARCTIC National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska);  ENVIRONMENTALISM;  OIL well drilling;  GAS drilling (Petroleum engineering);  NATIONAL parks & reserves -- Alaska;  WILDLIFE refuges -- Alaska

 

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