Voices From the Arctic

Contribution #1: "Awareness is the beginning of the solution"

Our first Voices from the Arctic contribution comes from Dave Harmon, a businessman from Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Dave visited the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and the Gwich'in town of Old Crow in the Yukon Territory of Canada along with a group of students from Appalachian State University in the summer of 2004.

Click on one of the links below to hear Dave's message about the importance of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for the Gwich'in people, for Americans, and for our relationship with the natural world.

Contribution #2: "There will be major impacts should oil development occur"

Our second "Voices from the Arctic" contribution comes from Don Russell, a research manager with the Canadian Wildlife Service. Don lives in Whitehorse, Capital of the Yukon Territory, and he has been studying arctic caribou herds for more than 30 years. He is one of the world's foremost experts on the Porcupine Caribou Herd - the herd on which the Gwich'in people depend for their very survival.

Click on one of the links below to hear Don's expert opinion on the importance of the "1002 lands" - that is, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge - for the continued survival of the Porcupine Caribou Herd.