When President Eisenhower was pres in the early 50 s, he created a wildlife preserve area in the north east section of Alaska. They called it ANWR . Alaska National Wildlife Preserve. In that, drilling was allowed in a small section at any later date. The total of the ANWR is from about Moses Lake to the Idaho border and from Canada to Oregon, so that gives you an idea of the size of ANWR. In that section, 2,000 acres approx was alocated a long time ago for drilling. Its along the coast of the Artic Sea, and makes for ez shipping out of the northern sea. Supposedly, there is enough oil underneath that section, that could support at least the west coast in oil for 30 years or so. I want to see it drilled in, but a national interest should be proclaimed, whereby, no part could be shipped overseas for a trade item. Our use only. I guess there is a lot of natural gas up there as well. The Caribou herds park under the pipelines right now from Prudoe Bay to Valdez a long way away. The Porkupine herd gets away from Mosquitoes by standing in the shade of the pipeline. Mosquitoes dont like the cold shade. So many mosquitoes on the tundra that they actually have been known to kill caribou themselves in swarms. Tundra ids perma frost and gets soggy in the summer, but never melts in past the frozen ground beneath it. It gets 50-60 BELOW in the winter. BRRR
