[speekinout]

I like "ecotourism", so rather than having my Alaska trip be a cruise through the Inside Passage with all of the other pollution dumping huge cruise ships (why doesn't anyone complain about them?) I went on a small ship.
We stopped at Kenai (gorgeous!), an area just below ANWR (desolate! like a moonscape) and several Inuit villages. The Inuit villages are really pollution sources - huge barrels of oil, snowmobiles and their summer cousins everywhere, trash, etc.
People are just not getting a fair picture of what this area is like. I applaud Norton's attempt to get the accurate pictures of the area into the public arena. But the media will not help.

[RightWhale]

an area just below ANWR

ANWR is on the North Slope. Did you sail all the way around Alaska to Barrow and Prudhoe? By golly, that would be a trip!