http://one-change.com/blog/2007/11/the-anwr-debate/ making one change at a time Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:02:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://one-change.com/blog/2007/11/the-anwr-debate/#comment-40200 Dawn M Smith Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:52:14 +0000 http://one-change.com/blog/2007/11/the-anwr-debate/#comment-40200 Thanks for citing my article in this. The one thing that is hardest for most of us who have not grown up with tundra is just how fragile it is. Until my first trip to Alaska, I didn't completely understand. But in Denali you can see paths across the land -old trails that have not been used for many years-made before we (non-natives) learned how protect the tundra by not walking along the same path over and over again. The damage that has already been done to the tundra along the Alaska pipeline will not be erased for centuries. It would be wrong to do the same to the area around ANWR, much less within it. Thanks for citing my article in this.
The one thing that is hardest for most of us who have not grown up with tundra is just how fragile it is. Until my first trip to Alaska, I didn’t completely understand. But in Denali you can see paths across the land -old trails that have not been used for many years-made before we (non-natives) learned how protect the tundra by not walking along the same path over and over again.
The damage that has already been done to the tundra along the Alaska pipeline will not be erased for centuries. It would be wrong to do the same to the area around ANWR, much less within it.

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