Artic National Wildlife Refuge (Photos)

[Aussie]

Some pictures that I'd like to share:

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/08/01/zoom/images/zm_zoomin_20010801.3.1.jpg
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/08/01/zoom/images/zm_zoomin_20010801.3.1.jpg

http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0605/images/wallpaper_big.4.1.jpg
http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0605/images/wallpaper_big.4.1.jpg

http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0605/images/wallpaper_big.1.2.jpg
http://seabed.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0605/images/wallpaper_big.1.2.jpg


http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF15/ASF15%20photos/caribou.jpg
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF15/ASF15%20photos/caribou.jpg
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/anwr.jpg
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/anwr.jpg
<img src="http://www.federationofwesternoutdoorclubs.org/newart/katcreek.jpg" width="654" height="491" border=0>
http://www.federationofwesternoutdoorclubs.org/newart/katcreek.jpg

I have some more pictures in my National Geographic magazine that I could scan. Absolutely stunning pictures of rolling green hills, birds and other animals.


http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2003/02/11_losurem_anwar/images/prettyskyandmountain_large.jpg

[DesertFox]

I don't blame you for not scanning the pix of the few acres where they want to drill for oil. That place is flat and colorless, completely uninteresting.

[Timberwolf]

Yeah, DF...those pics offered by Aussie are roughly 500 miles SOUTH of where the drilling is to take place.

[brilliantLiberal]

Yeah, DF...those pics offered by Aussie are roughly 500 miles SOUTH of where the drilling is to take place.
Perhaps it might be more accurate to show pictures of the moon, since that would be closer to what the drilling sight is than these images.

[DoctorDoom]

Try these photos of the terrain that is typical of the actual exploration/drilling site. The first three are spring. The last three are summer. What an Eden! What a garden spot! It's a veritable paradise for all the caribou in the photos.

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/46-Coastal_Plain_Spring.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/53-Coastal_Plain-Spring.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/47-Coastal_Plain_spring2.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/48-Coastal_Plain_summer.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/50-Coastal_Plain_summer3.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/51-Coastal_Plain_summer4.jpg

anwr.org - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Photo Gallery (http://www.anwr.org/photo.htm)

It would appear that Ozzie liberals are as deceitful as our home-grown ones.

[DoctorDoom]

BTW, same site:

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/11-Bears%20on%20pipeline.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/17-Caribou_no_impact.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/18-Caribou-on-pad.jpg

http://www.anwr.org/gallery/images/15-calf%20under%20pipeline.jpg

[Naturalized-Texan]

I don't blame you for not scanning the pix of the few acres where they want to drill for oil. That place is flat and colorless, completely uninteresting.
Yeah! The area where they will be drilling is a frozen tundra in the winter and a mosquito-infested mud flat in the summer.

[Aussie]

I welcome your pictures too DD. I just wanted to show that the ANWR is not entirely a barren wasteland. It's a vibrant meeting place for millions of migrating birds and caribou, whales and bears, and especially the native people that call it home.

[DoctorDoom]

And I just wanted to show that where the intended drilling would occur is not "a vibrant meeting place for millions of migrating birds and caribou, whales and bears," but an all but lifeless wilderness.

Liberals are infamous for lying by omission, and not telling the whole truth. Their tactic would be to oppose drilling in the Mojave Desert by posting pictures of the Napa Valley.

[Beowulf]

Yeah! The area where they will be drilling is a frozen tundra in the winter and a mosquito-infested mud flat in the summer.

But Liberals will want to save the mosquitos!

[DoctorDoom]

Well, they might be an endangered species of skeeter, doncha know?

[Jag Wife]

National Geographic. Now THERE'S a hotbed of America-friendly propoganda. :bsflag:Come to think of it, weren't they they same soothsayers who came up with the Tasaday tribe back in the 70's, and it's proven that this long-lost civilization was actually made up of people from somewhere in Southeast Asia?

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/top100/tasaday/

[DesertFox]

Liberals are infamous for lying by omission, and not telling the whole truth. Their tactic would be to oppose drilling in the Mojave Desert by posting pictures of the Napa Valley.And Aussie has continued the proven liberal mode by trying to fake us into thinking that drilling in ANWR would endanger all them bearsies and caribousies.

Sad. I had thought better of the lad.

Nice try, Aussie, but you can't lie to us by omission and expect to get away with it on FreeConservatives. Jonah Goldberg showed the pix of the proposed drilling area back around 2001, dude.

[sunsettommy]

I welcome your pictures too DD. I just wanted to show that the ANWR is not entirely a barren wasteland. It's a vibrant meeting place for millions of migrating birds and caribou, whales and bears, and especially the native people that call it home.

Ok whatever.

I hope you knew that the environmentalists strongly opposed the Prudehoe Bay drilling years ago on the grounds it would detrimentally impact the flora and fauna.

The evidence today has proven them wrong by a country mile.

Yet these idiots are fighting the Anwar drilling despite a far more desolate environment.Then too the drilling methods along with new technology greatly reduce the impact on the region.

DD showed the true appearance of the proposed drilling area.It is desolate.

By the way nice photos.

[Aussie]

I don't know why you guys are talking about the drilling area. My thread title isn't 'Pictures of the place oil companies are likely to drill'. It's a collective thread of the entire ANWR. I never said anything about a drilling area. Jeez, don't jump to conclusions. :rolleyes:

The entire place is a beautiful area. Even the frigid parts. It's a shame that people don't know about an area which is such a hot national issue.

[Foquet]

Actually, I did not think Aussie was posting these pix to show where oil would be drilled in ANWR. Just some cool pix, in any case.

As for the proposed drilling site, it is like Boortz says, a paved over Wal-Mart parking lot in the winter and of course a flat mudbed in the summer.

Not to mention, drilling in this is area is 26 years overdue, seeing that Jimmy Peanut signed off on all of this in friggin' 1980. Not to mention, if ANWR was the size a football field, the drilling area would be the size of a postage stamp on said field. (image below)

As for the way the EnviroMarxists were squealing back in the 1970's about the impact the Alaskan Oil Pipeline was going to have on the caribou, they always neglect to mention that the caribou population has tripled since the pipeline was built. They obviously like the heat that the pipeline give off, which in turn leads to a higher mating ratio.

Not that any of that matters to UN Run/One-State dreamers of the EnviroMarxist movement. They'd rather have us ride donkeys to work, ala the ragheads, complete with a giant pooper scooper tied to the donkeys's tail, since we cannot "dirty" the environment. Haha.

http://www.nosferatuscoffin.com/images/anwr.jpg

[Johnnybegood]

Aussie,The question is why would you post those great pictures of ANWR .You know it just stokes the fire....Oh yeah You need oil for that?

[DoctorDoom]

I don't know why you guys are talking about the drilling area. My thread title isn't 'Pictures of the place oil companies are likely to drill'.Come now, Ozzie. We didn't just disembark from the boat from Naive Island. When a kneejerk liberal on a conservative BB posts "Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Photos)", it is for one and only one purpose: stir opposition to exploiting North Slope oil by misrepresenting the area.

It's a collective thread of the entire ANWR. I never said anything about a drilling area.Kid, you were caught with your pants at half mast. Admit that your intention was shamelessly political. The Web has a large supply of hyper-liberal ecowacko and fuzzy-bunny "wildlife" sites wailing and gnashing their teeth over the possibility of making a few holes in a bloody wasteland, and zealously avoiding showing photos of operating oil facilities where the wildlife coexists wonderfully.

Jeez, don't jump to conclusions.Jump? Shit, kid, the conclusion looms like a thousand-foot-tall concrete barrier. We didn't need to jump. We ran into it. It's unavoidable.

The entire place is a beautiful area. Even the frigid parts.Everything is beautiful to someone. Hell, if one looked hard enough, he could find a person who thinks that Helen Thomas is beautiful. However, the fact that a gang of ecoloonies claim that a worthless stretch of barren wilderness has aesthetic appeal is not an issue when it comes to making it productive.

It's a shame that people don't know about an area which is such a hot national issue.Why is it a "hot national issue" in Down-Under? IAC, if people are ignorant about the ANWR, the blame can be laid at the feet of the Gaia-worshipping assholes who deliberately present only one narrow, politically-correct side of the issue and censor anything that exposes their brazen deceit.

[DesertFox]

The area where drilling would occur isn't beautiful. It's plain as white bread, flat and featureless.

Nice try.

[Kathy29]

Liberals depend on ignorance. ANWR is mostly beautiful and filled with wildlife. Fortunately there is NO OIL under all that beauty. The oil is under approximately 8% of the most barren area. Actually, drilling might improve the ecology of the area by warming it enough to support more life than just mosquitos.

[DoctorDoom]

Actually, the skeeter swarms are bizarre, given the conspicuous absence of warm-blooded critters on which to feast. The oil guys will need Off in 55-gallon drums.

[sunsettommy]

I don't know why you guys are talking about the drilling area. My thread title isn't 'Pictures of the place oil companies are likely to drill'. It's a collective thread of the entire ANWR. I never said anything about a drilling area. Jeez, don't jump to conclusions. :rolleyes:

The entire place is a beautiful area. Even the frigid parts. It's a shame that people don't know about an area which is such a hot national issue.

If that is what you believe.That is fine however there is always a reason to start a thread and you never explained why you started this one.

In post #8 you stated:

"I welcome your pictures too DD. I just wanted to show that the ANWR is not entirely a barren wasteland. It's a vibrant meeting place for millions of migrating birds and caribou, whales and bears, and especially the native people that call it home."

I see here that you did have some reason to post pictures.It is to make sly political overtones showing that it is a vibrant region stocked with a lot of life.

There is always a reason to start a thread and I see you wanted us to think it is a place of beauty.That is fine.

However this is a hotly contested region encompassing politics and environmentalism along with the courts involvement.

This is why many here in the thread think you have some backdoor attempt to fight the drilling in a tiny area.

I suggest that next time you tell us from the start of a thread you create what is your reason for starting a thread.

[ConspiracyBuff]

What does all of this go to show? Its time to begin the drilling and stop the driveling.

[ConspiracyBuff]

BTW- You posted the pics on US Energy Forum and right after the thread, "House passes ANWR drilling bill"- Its quite obvious what your intent was, no one here is that stupid.

[Rhino]

......and especially the native people that call it home.Who especially want the drilling to go ahead.

[DoctorDoom]

... no one here is that stupid.Amendment: "... no conservative here is that stupid."

[THEBIRD]

So what. Screw the bears and birds, caribou up there. Its not like you can't see those in any other place in the world. Give me the oil that belongs to America.

I'm not afraid to say it.

Pave the planet.....I need a place to park.

[Rhino]

It won't hurt the bears, birds and caribou anyway, so what's the dif?

[Rhino]

Aussie, I resized one of your big pics. It was scrolling far off the screen