What is Arctic National Wildlife Refuge?
The '''Arctic National Wildlife Refuge''' (abbreviated ANWR) is in northeastern [[Alaska]]. It was [[Creating|created]] to [[protect]] and keep the area's [[Wildlife]] and [[wilderness]].<ref name=fish>{{cite web|title=National Wildlife Refuge {{!}} Alaska: Wildlife and Habitat|url=http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Arctic/about.html|publisher=US Fish and WIldlife Service|access-date=11 May 2014|year=2013|archive-date=22 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822233406/http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Arctic/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Some of these are [[polar bear]]s, [[Brown bear|grizzly bears]], [[grey wolf|grey wolves]], and [[Reindeer|caribou]]. [[Fish]] [[species]] include [[Dolly Varden]], [[Arctic char]], [[Lake trout]] and several kinds of [[salmon]].<ref name=refugefish>{{cite web|title=National Wildlife Refuge Alaska: Fish of Arctic Refuge|url=http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Arctic/about.html|publisher=US Fish and WIldlife Service|access-date=18 May 2014|year=2014|archive-date=22 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140822233406/http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Arctic/about.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> There are at least 194 species of [[bird]]s that visit or live here.<ref>''Arctic Wings: Birds of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Volume 2, ed. Stephen Charles Brown (Seattle: Mountaineers Books; Manomet, MA: Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences, 2006), p. 11</ref> The refuge totals 19,286,722 acres.<ref>''Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West'', ed. Steven L. Danver (Washington DC: SAGE Publications, 2013), p. 178</ref> In the ground under ANWR is one of the last major [[Petroleum|oil reserves]] in the [[United States]].<ref>''Congressional Record, V. 151, Pt. 4, March 11 to April 6 2005'', ed. US Congress (Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office, 2005), p. 4975</ref> There are [[debate]]s on whether or not to allow [[oil drilling]].<ref name=npr>{{cite web|title=For 30 Years, a Political Battle Over Oil and ANWR|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?s