Gwich’in fight to protect caribou from Alaska oil development
via blm.gov
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The Bureau of Land Management opened nominations last week for the first-ever oil and gas lease auction in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR, setting the stage for development that three Gwich’in governments are now suing to stop. Raeann Garnett, 29, is Gwich’in and the tribal chief of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal […]