U.S. Representatives Don Young and Doc Hastings have introduced H.R. 1964 in an effort to scrap the Department of the Interior’s recently finalized, comprehensive plan for the western Arctic’s National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, the nation’s largest tract of public land.

Gov. Sean Parnell’s plan to ask the Alaska Legislature for $50 million to look for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is incompatible with the reasons the refuge was established, and would cause significant harm to a vital and irreplaceable American landscape.

The Wilderness Society today applauded the U.S. Senate for passing  the Rio Grande del Norte National Conservation Area Establishment Act out of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

The Wilderness Society today applauded the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, under the Chairmanship of Senator Ron Wyden, for reporting from the committee an array of wilderness and public lands protection measures.