Quentin Smith and Brett Blakeney

Group 1

11/11/02

Science

ANWR Research Outline (compounded)

• Overview of Animals
• Mammals, 36 different land species and 9 different aquatic species
• Caribou
• Locations of calving ground
• 152000 caribou arrive each spring
• USFWS concluded development would cause a major decline in the Porcupine Caribou herd
• Sheep
• Bears
• Inhabit arctic coast
• "Extremely sensitive to industrial disturbance and activity."
• Arctic Fox and Wolves
• Musk Oxen
• Department of Interior: "Oil development would displace musk oxen from a large portion of their preferred habitat in all seasons."
• 100 live on refuge
• Mink
• Moose
• Birds, 160 species
• Sensitive to human disturbance
• Ducks
• Geese
• 13,000 to more than 300,000 birds each year
• Shore birds
• Jaegers
• Terns
• Song birds
• Gulls
• Fish, 36 species

• Arctic Grayling
• Dolly Varden

• Arctic Cisco

• Vegetation
• Grasses
• Pendant grass
• Herbaceous plants
• Aquatic sedges
• Cottongrass
• Mosses
• Important for nesting birds and as grazing ground for waterfown
• Further from coast
• Sedge tussocks
• Dwarf shrub
• Willow
• Birch
• Alders
• Thousands of other species