Finding a place for wildlife in the National Petroleum Reserve: Field notes from the Arctic

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

e360.yale.edu 26 Jul '11, 12pm

Finding a place for wildlife in the National Petroleum Reserve: Field notes from the Arctic

Arctic Blog: A Place for Wildlife In the National Petroleum Reserve By Steve Zack, Wildlife Conservation Society 26 Jul 2011 During my four-night stay at our remote Ikpikpuk camp, we were serenaded virtually nonstop by a Smith’s longspur, a songbird usually found in the Brooks Range and adjacent foothills, some 60 miles to the south. He had come to settle where there were no others of his kind. His message was urgent, yet ignored by the Lapland longspurs, savannah sparrows, and other wildlife busy with their lives. Steve Zack of the Wildlife Conservation Society blogs from the Arctic for Yale Environment 360 . The third in a series . Read the previous entry When contemplating our conservation efforts in Arctic Alaska, I can relate to “Mr. Smith,” as our field assistants called him. Imagine singing the praises of the biggest public landscape in the United States, though the...

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