Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Research Article from Environmental Encyclopedia

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 5 pages of information about Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - Research Article from Environmental Encyclopedia

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 5 pages of information about Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
This section contains 1,394 words
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Beyond the jagged Brooks Range in Alaska's far northeastern corner lies one of the world's largest nature preserves, the 19.8-million acre (8-million ha) Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). A narrow strip of treeless coastal plain in the heart of the refuge presents one of nature's grandest spectacles, as well as one of the longest-running environmental battles of the past century. For a few months during the brief arctic summer, the tundra teems with wildlife. This is the calving ground of the 130,000 caribou of the Porcupine herd, which travels up to 400 mi (640 km) each summer to graze and give birth along the Arctic Ocean shore. It also is important habitat for tens of thousands of snow geese, tundra swans, shorebirds and other migratory waterfowl; a denning area for polar bears, arctic foxes and arctic wolves; and a year-round home to about 350 shaggy musk...

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