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    The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a national wildlife refuge in northeastern Alaska and is the largest National Wildlife Refuge in the United States. Created by Congress in 1980 with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), this area is at the center of both economic and environmental controversy as it holds potential for the production of both oil and natural gas. The ANILCA’s most controversial piece was the decision to defer drilling and petroleum exploration in the coastal plain region of ANWR known as the 1002 area (Figure 1). Petroleum is a valuable economic resource that is used in everyday life from the generation of electricity to fueling transportation to making plastic and synthetic goods. Yet despite modern society’s reliance on petroleum, we are using this finite resource faster than it can be replenished and at the cost of damaging the environment and inducing anthropogenic warming of the Earth’s climate. Petroleum is a nonrenewable resource, meaning that it cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equivalent to its consumption. It takes millions of years for crude oil to form through the burial and decay of small aquatic organisms (e.g. plankton, diatoms). The formation of petroleum primarily consists of three steps. The first step consists of the burial of the aforementioned…

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    Crazy Houses In The 1800s

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    Regardless of where they were, crazy houses, or crazy shelters, have a similar essential elements and capacities. The perspectives of refuge life changed radically through the span of the nineteenth century. The development of the quantity of crazy houses amid the nineteenth century is very amazing. Before 1810, just a couple states had crazy havens. By 1850, the greater part of the Northeastern and Midwestern states' councils bolstered having shelters. As right on time as 1860, 23 of the 33…

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    The Definition Of Refuge

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    Refuge. A simple word yet what a powerful it can have on one’s life. The dictionary definition for refuge is a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble. Refuge is needed for different reasons and is found in many different places. It can be found in either a relationship, location, or activity. No matter where it is found though, it can be a critical part of one’s life. Refuge can be found in a physical place. A place where one can feel at home when home is not a…

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    With Buddhism, going for refuge has been a very significant aspect of their religious practice since the time of the Buddha. Going for refuge marks the point where a person commits themselves to taking the Dhamma. Why is this commitment considered a refuge one might ask? In pre-Buddhist India, going for refuge meant proclaiming one’s allegiance to a powerful person or god in hopes of receiving protection from danger in return. Similar to the Hinduism religion, Buddhism is not a theistic…

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    Sherburne Wildlife Refuge

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    Wednesday Journal: Today, we spent our time at the Audubon Center of the Northwoods in Sandstone, Minnesota. The weather was sunny with splashes of clouds and it felt especially humid. The first part of the day was spent contrasting the prairies we observed yesterday at Sherburne Wildlife Refuge with the newly restored prairie at Audubon. Historically, the new prairie was an old agricultural field; the team removed the old plants, sprayed to remove the plants, burned off the older vegetation…

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    Noxubee Refuge Lab Report

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    The purpose of this lab was to determine what vegetation was present above and below the water’s surface and to observe the water visibility depth at Noxubee Refuge. We collected samples of data from the two different lakes at Noxubee Refuge. The two lakes were Bluff Lake and Loakfoma Lake. The Bluff lake consists of 800 acres of the Noxubee Refuge, and Loakfoma Lake consists of 400 acres (About the Refuge). Many different wildlife species are present at these two lakes. The wildlife…

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    The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) sits on what we might call a pot of black gold; a reported 7 billion barrels of oil can be found here (Primack), and we can find a lot of debates online regarding the ANWR. On one side the oil industry’s potential role in accessing the land, pulling this resource out for the benefit of the energy independence and economic growth of North America. On the other side of the debate is the protection of this majestic beauty of the vast grasslands and herds…

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    The article “Arctic National Refuge” was written by President Jimmy Carter, and Photographic Journey by Subhankar Banerjee. He wrote this article to protect the wild animals from humans. The author used many quotes to explain how the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge protects the wild animals, and their habitats. First of all, “The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands alone as America’s last truly great wilderness,” Carter said. He means that the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique…

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    The current Syrian refuge crises is a defining moral event in this era, we are currently writing history with our reactions to the millions of desperate family’s looking for safety. As a planet and a country we must decide what moral era we want to live in, when we look back at events like the Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda or the Bosnian war, millions could have been saved if we acted sooner and wile in the example of the Holocaust lives were saved after the intervention we could have done a…

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    Taken Against Hunting

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    No Action Should Be Taken Against Hunting; Allowing for Wildlife Conservation The year is 1912, in Jackson Hole Wyoming, the past three winters have been harsh on the land. A movement to help increase the elk herd was started two years previously. According to Steve Morriss, 2012 the writer of National Elk Refuge: 1912 – 2012, “Congress appropriated $45,000 and decreed the creation of a National Elk Refuge. The Government incorporated 1,000 acres of public land and 1,760 acres of purchased land…

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