Drilling in the maternity ward.What exactly would opening Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) covers 19,049,236 acres (79,318 km²) in northeastern Alaska, in the North Slope region. It was originally protected in 1960 by order of Fred A. Seaton, the Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower. (ANWR ANWR Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Alaska, USA) ) to oil drilling mean? That is exactly what Karsten Heuer sets out to find in Being Caribou Caribou, town, United States Caribou (kâr`ĭb  ), town (1990 pop. 9,415), Aroostook co., NE Maine, on the Aroostook River; inc. 1859. (The Mountaineers Books, $24.95). In the tome, Heuer and his newlywed wife, Leanne Allison, set off on a harrowing adventure, trekking more than 1,000 miles as they follow the Porcupine caribou herd in their annual migration from their wintering grounds in Canada's Yukon territory to their calving calvingact of parturition in a bovine female, and presumably in any animal that bears a calf as its newborn. See also block calving, ease of calving. calving-to-conception interval grounds in the heart of ANWR. The five-month trek takes the newlyweds through the waist-deep snow of early spring to the heat of summer, on the brink of starvation and back, as they cross four mountain ranges and encounter grizzlies, wolves and clouds of ferocious mosquitoes. Heuer keeps the pages turning as he examines the many different sides of the ANWR development issue, while telling the intimate story of the caribou that stand to lose the most. |
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