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To: Cogito who wrote (71476)	6/10/2008 4:38:09 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543165

If you look at a topographic map of ANWR, you will discover that there is a very small area that is flat, right on the shore. And makes up a very small part of the shore. Your basically talking an area the size of a small town out of ANWR which is the size of several states. Even if you only are considering the ANWR coastal plain, rather than all of ANWR, the drilling area is still tiny, even minuscule in relation to the whole area. The coastal plain is only a fraction of ANWR but its over a million and a half acres. The ANWR drilling area would be not much over 1 part in 1000 of the ANWR coastal plain. Also see - Drilling Won't Make It Less of a Refuge "...Our only experiment with oil fields and caribou has taken place nearby on Alaska's North Slope in Prudhoe Bay. The Central Arctic caribou herd that inhabits part of Prudhoe Bay has grown from 6,000 in 1978 to 19,700 today, according to the most recent estimates by state and federal wildlife agencies. In fact, there is some evidence that the caribou use un-vegetated and elevated sites such as river bars, mud flats, dunes, gravel pads and roads in the existing oil fields as relief habitat from mosquitoes and from oestrid flies that attack their nostrils..." anwr.org