The National Post in Canada recently reported that Canada’s conservative government — led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper — has been lobbying against America drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge:

Harper himself was not asked about ANWR and did not state a position on the drilling issue during his most recent pre-election tour of the [...]

As I reported in this blog (here and here), the House and Senate had been considering a land swap bill that would build a $15.6 million, nine-mile gravel road through federally designated wilderness at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. This is a project that has been heavily pushed by Alaskan lobbyists, Governor Sarah Palin, [...]

On April 30, this blog discussed in detail the falsehoods that the Bush administration has recently been spreading regarding oil development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — an area of Alaska known as “America’s Serengeti” due to its abundant population of unique wildlife.
Yesterday, President George W. Bush once again went before the public to [...]

National Fishing and Boating Week is June 1 - 8. During this celebration, most states waive fishing license requirements for one or two days during the week, and more than 270 national wildlife refuges and wetland management districts offer a variety of fishing opportunities throughout the country.
Check out the USFWS press release for National [...]

In honor of International Migratory Bird Day, which is on May 10, I’m offering a photo of the amazing Arctic tern, which migrates farther than any bird on the planet.
According to the National Wildlife Federation, the Arctic tern makes a 22,000-30,000 mile journey to and from the Antarctic, which takes the bird 90 days each [...]

To the American citizens who still take the time to listen to President Bush spin his talking points, he must sound like a broken record after all these years. Today the President took the time to recognize the mess that our economy is in after seven years under his “leadership” (he still says we’re not [...]

As I’ve reported in this blog (here), the House and Senate had been considering a land swap bill that would build a $15.6 million, nine-mile gravel road through federally designated wilderness at Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
Wilderness areas are not common in the National Wildlife Refuge System, which has only about 63 units (out [...]

In 2004, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Doyon corporation reached an initial agreement to trade 110,000 acres of refuge land at Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska — plus subsurface title to another 97,000 refuge acres — for approximately 150,000 acres owned by Doyon. Doyon wants to explore and drill [...]

Alaska’s Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge was recently listed as one of the ten most endangered refuges in the Defenders of Wildlife 2007 “Refuges at Risk” report. (See previous posts about other endangered refuges: Pea Island NWR, Cape May NWR and Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR.)
Yukon Flats NWR, which is located in the eastern interior [...]

On November 7, 2007, Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-CT) introduced legislation in the U.S. Senate that would protect the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from the threat of oil and gas exploration by designating it as federally protected wilderness. The bill — S.2316 — currently has 25 cosponsors.
According to Senator Lieberman’s [...]