In the second in a series of blogs from the Arctic, Steve Zack, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, explains how scientists are working
to gauge the effect of Alaska’s sprawling Prudhoe Bay oilfields on caribou, nesting birds, and other wildlife. In his next blog, Zack, who reports from remote field camps on the North Slope, will describe efforts by researchers to identify and protect key wildlife habitats in a large area of Alaska that could soon be opened to oil drilling and mining.
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