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John,

Alaska's Western Arctic Reserve's "special areas" are some of the few places left on Earth where you can hear the hooves of thousands of caribou migrating across the tundra.

It's also a place where muskoxen graze alongside winding rivers that are untouched by modern civilization.

Yet 13 million acres of critical wildlife habitat in the Western Arctic could soon be shattered by backhoes, new roads, airstrips and oil rigs.[1]

Tell the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to keep the Western Arctic federally protected from oil drilling.
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Thanks to existing federal protections, few places on Earth remain as rugged and wild as the "special areas" in the Western Arctic. These protected places are a critical wildlife habitat for walruses, seals, polar bears and the Teshekpuk Lake caribou herd precisely because the area is untouched.[2]

If we stay silent, critical federal protections against oil drilling in this area may soon disappear. Tell the BLM that the Western Arctic must remain protected.
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Opening these places to oil drilling would have disastrous consequences for wildlife. Roads would fragment the caribou's migratory patterns. Airstrips would destroy the delicate ecosystem in which polar bears, grizzlies and Arctic foxes coexist.

The Bureau of Land Management is holding an open comment period until Aug. 4. Without an urgent outpouring of public support, oil drilling will soon come knocking on the Western Arctic's doorstep.

Environment Colorado is collecting public comments and delivering them to the BLM in advance of their Aug. 4 deadline. Will you take a minute and add your name?
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Thank you,

Ellen Montgomery

1. "Interior Moves to Rescind 2024 Rule on Alaska's Petroleum Reserve," U.S. Department of the Interior, June 2, 2025.
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2. Ellen Montgomery, "Arctic "special areas" deserve protection from drilling," Environment America, June 2, 2025.
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