19 Million acres is not all the land of Alaska, but just ANWR. Alaska itself has 365.5 Million Acres. Over 150 Million Acres are Parks, Natural Forsest and Wildlife Refuges.
http://www.alaskacoalition.org/Public_lands.htm
http://www.alaskanha.org/alaska-state-parks.htm
I'd like to know what percentage of coastal land they would mess up.
Alaska has more coastline than the rest of the US put together.
Explore Alaska's Coast
http://www.alaskacoast.state.ak.us/Explore/Tourintro.html
The Alaska Coastal Management Program EIS indicates that Alaska's coastline is 33,000 miles long. However with advances in mapping technology, we have been able to ascertain that the number of coastal miles is approximately 44,000. As Alaska develops a coordinated GIS system, we will be able to publish more detailed information.
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Here you can see how large of ANWR's coastline is. Don't forget to subtract out the section of native lands. This group of natives favors oil exploration.
The section in red shows the coastal area 1002 compared to all of ANWR and the Northern Coast.
And compared to the rest of the state.
