Congressman Ferguson: Protect ANWR!

Allowing oil drilling in any part of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) not only defeats the entire purpose of calling it a wildlife refuge, it also sets a dangerous precedent for exploiting other national wildlife refuges, and even national monuments or national parks. Drilling in ANWR would destroy one of our last pristine, wild places that endangered and threatened species depend upon for their very survival. The Coastal Plain, where drilling has been proposed, is the calving ground of the Porcupine caribou herd, and sacred to the Gwich'in people, who have subsisted on the caribou for thousands of years.