Arctic Blog: A Place for Wildlife In the National Petroleum Reserve

In the third in a series of blogs from the Arctic, biologist Steve Zack, of the Wildlife Conservation Society, explains how he and other scientists are assessing key

Steve Zack Arctic Field Notes
Steve Zack blogs from the Arctic for Yale e360. The third in a series.
wildlife habitats within the 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve, a remote area in northern Alaska that could soon be opened to oil and gas drilling. The U.S. Department of Interior is expected to rule within a year on which parts of the reserve can be developed and which, if any, should be protected.
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