Will US budget cuts destroy a key Arctic wildlife area? | News

Bernadette Demientieff says it is a “very scary time” for the Gwich’in indigenous nation as proposed US budget legislation would open a key section of a nearly 20-million acre wildlife refuge in the Arctic up to oil-and-gas development. The coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), a largely protected wilderness reserve in northeastern Alaska, is a key point on the migratory