"Bill McKee" wrote:

The wildlife loves the Alaska Pipeline. Get near it when it is cold. And
seems as if the caribou have increased.

Where to you hear fantasies like that?

The Porcupine Caribou Herd has decreased.

The Pipeline is insulated, no animals "Get near it when it is cold".

The Pipeline slit the calving of the Central Arctic Caribou Herd
in half with a detrimental effect for those on one side.

Nelleman, C., and R.D. Cameron. 1996. Terrain preferences
of calving caribou exposed to petroleum development.
Arctic 49:23-28.

Nellemann, C., and R.D. Cameron. 1998. Cumulative impacts
of an evolving oilfield complex on calving caribou. Can.
J. Zool. 76:1425-1430.

This might well be "rocket science", but it isn't unknown.

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