The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the few remaining wild places left in North America and it needs the additional protection that National Monument status would give it. The Coastal Plain, the heart of the Refuge, is currently threatened by oil development, Monument Status would prohibit such development from occurring.
The Arctic Refuge's coastal plain is the nesting home to migratory birds that return to every state in the Union, and is the calving ground to the 180,000 caribou of the Porcupine River Caribou Herd. The herd is a critical food source and is central to culture of the Gwich'in, a tribe of Native Americans located in remote northeastern Alaska and northern Canada.
Please share this petition to protect the Arctic Refuge, now and forever by making it a Monument.