"Bill McKee" wrote:
ANWR is not all pristine wilderness. There were military bases, villages,

Bull****.

ANWR covers 19 million acres of ground. The "1002 Area" which refers
to the coastal plain of ANWR is 1.5 million acres. At the very northern
edge of that is Barter Island, in the Beaufort Sea (the Arctic Ocean).
On Barter Island is the one and only village inside the confines of ANWR.
There are fewer than 300 people living in Kaktovik, the village on Barter
Island. There was once a DEWLINE radar and communications station on
Barter Island, but is has been closed for many years now. It was owned
by the US Air Force, but was never operated by a military crew.

Hence, 1 small village, and 1 abandoned radar station. That is *not*
"military bases, villages". And hardly makes ANWR "not at all pristine
wilderness".

etc. in the region. Friends that have been there say you see old 50 gallon
drums and other signs of habitation in the far north.

There are 55 gallon drums on Barter Island, but you'll be darned
hard pressed to find half a dozen drums in the rest of ANWR.

You are simply exaggerating. It is the *most* pristine wilderness
in the entire United States.


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Floyd L. Davidson http://www.apaflo.com/floyd_davidson
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)