Protect the Reserve
The 23-million-acre Reserve in Alaska’s Western Arctic is the largest tract of US public land—home to hundreds of species at increased risk from a warming climate, and to Indigenous communities who have lived in relationship with this land for millennia. Without strong climate policy, new drilling here will further threaten the region and lock the US into decades of fossil fuel production. Now, even the Special Areas of the Western Arctic—critical habitats and cultural strongholds—are in the crosshairs, as protections are rolled back in favor of oil and gas development.
