Teshekpuk Lake is located in the National Petroleum Reserve south east of Barrow Alaska. It provides vital habitat for up to 60,000 molting geese including a large proportion of the world's population of brant geese. The tundra supports a wide variety of birds that migrate here to hatch their chicks. In addition to birds, it is the home of the Teshekpuk caribou herd estimated at 26,000.
The environmental importance of Teshekpuk Lake was recognized as far back as the Reagan administration and it was protected from drilling. Today the Bush administration wants to open this area to drilling for oil. This is a give away to big oil. They have millions of acres under lease that they are not drilling. We can not allow our special places like Teshekpuk Lake, The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Polar bear seas to be destroyed. It won't change our price at the pump and it won't eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. We don't have enough of the worlds oil supply to meet our needs if we drill every where in the US.
Please view our photographs from our trip in July to Teshekpuk Lake, then contact your congressmen and senators and tell them you are against drilling in these special places.
For additional information visit the Alaska Wilderness League site alaskwild.org.
2 comments:
Wow! These are great pictures. The caribou look a little mad.
Thanks for sharing these and helping to educate folks about this important area.
Liz
Truly a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing your pictures and your experience.
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