Floyd L. Davidson wrote:
"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.



You're wasting your time. This newsgroup is full of right-wing
primitives who:

* oppose any reports, news, or science that interferes with the ability
of corporate America to make a killing,

* typically support whatever the idiot now occupying the White House
believes,

* think the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was a minor spill, and

* typically think "creationism" is as valid as Darwin's theories, and
can be "proven" "scientifically."


I'm not kidding.