I remember May of 1969. I was at a site on the eastern edge of the ANWR. I spent several hours watching the migration of the caribou herds as they came down to the costal plain from their winter meadows in the Brooks Range! Today those herds have tripled in size. The Alaska Pipeline is credited in this increase. The oil pumped from the Prudhoe deposits is so hot from the geothermal layers that the Alaska Pipeline had to be installed above the ground level so as not to effect the permafrost tundra. The caribou are not dumb. Mothers and calfs have been seen standing under the pipleline to keep warm in the winter. More calfs survive and the herd increases. The wolves and other predators also increase and so the circle of life is proven once again.
The Greens just don't get it!