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We don't need to spoil America's last great wilderness in the pursuit of oil and other fossil fuels.
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Places in Danger: Utukok Uplands
To the south, the foothills of the Brooks Range rise in a region known as the Utukok Uplands. This special area provides critical habitat and calving grounds for the largest caribou herd in Alaska - the Western Arctic Caribou herd. The uplands also host the largest concentration of grizzly bears in the Arctic and the biggest population of wolverines in the world.
Read more about places in danger.
To the north of the Arctic Circle and beyond Alaska's Brooks Range mountains lies America's Arctic — the final frontier in American conservation. From Point Hope on Alaska's far western edge, to the pristine coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the east, this land — and the seas that surround it — are our single most endangered national treasure. Read more.