... creating the Refuge. The Act outlined four separate purposes: to conserve fish and wildlife populations and habitats in their natural diversity including, but not limited to, the Porcupine caribou herd, polar bears, grizzly bears, muskoxen, Dall sheep, wolves, wolverines, snow geese, peregrine falcons and other migratory birds and Arctic char and grayling; to fulfill the international fish and wildlife treaty obligations of the ... is a laboratory where today's scientists, and future scientists, can study to further understand the natural dynamics of a land unaltered. The Refuge is the ...

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... traveled hundreds of miles from Canada's Porcupine River region to the coastal plain, where females give birth in the spring ("Life on...") In addition, the coastal waters are home to polar bears throughout their non-dormant months, and even more importantly are the onshore denning areas of the coastal plain used during the winter months. The entire Beaufort population of ... polar bears den most heavily along the 800 miles of the arctic coast ("Life on..."). Furthermore, during the summer months, the coast is very important for migrating birds. More than 135 bird ... ...

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... refuge in the United States. The refuge provides a home to many different, and nearly extinct animals including: musk oxen, caribou, migratory birds, Dall sheep, as well as grizzly, black, and polar bears; and this is just a short list. There are a wide variety of marine mammals that migrate to the Beaufort Sea, off the cost of the refuge, during the summertime (Big Oil ... and extraction activities are concentrated in the refuge's most critical and sensitive areas such as calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd and denning areas fro one of America's two polar bear populations. S...

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... : The 1002 Area is critically important to the ecological integrity of the whole Artic Refuge, providing essential habitats for numerous internationally important species such as the Porcupine Caribou herd and polar bears. Other species affected include: wolves, wolverines, snow geese, seabirds, and shorebirds, artic grayling and coastal fish. The compactness and proximity of a number of artic and subartic ecological zones in the ... natural abundance or distribution of species." Muskoxen Concerns: Displacement of muskoxen from preferred winter habitat Decreased body condition in females...

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... is rich in fossil fuels, but also thought of as the most critical area in the entire ecosystem. The coastal plains are a habitat for over 160 different species of birds, polar bears, a herd of Porcupine caribou, and the Gwich"in people, one of the world's few remaining subsistence cultures. According to the Fish & Wildlife Service, "such a broad spectrum of diverse habitats occurring ... area would force the herd to relocate to another area where nutrients would not be as plentiful. As a result insects could not easily escape, and predators, such as wolves and bears, would be more of a ...

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... the ANWR is not sufficient enough to justify the potential environmental damage. The landscape of the ANWR is home to a diverse array of wildlife including: migratory birds, caribou, grizzly bears, Dall sheep, polar bears and musk oxen. Ecosystems such as this are delicately balanced and some of the most ecologically sensitive ecosystems in the world. The system's relatively short food chains also mean ... ...

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The traditional image most people have of the artic tundra, is a vast, featureless sheet of ice, home to a few polar bears and maybe an Eskimo. The reality is that the artic is not the never ending snowstorm you picture in your head. There are several different settings that can be described ... ...

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