Forwarded from the Alaska Wilderness League, by Jane Clark

Happy Birthday to the Arctic Refuge!

Forty-seven years ago today, on December 6, 1960, President Dwight D. 
Eisenhower established the Arctic National Wildlife Range.  The Range would 
later be doubled in size and renamed the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 
under President Carter, but it was Eisenhower who began the bipartisan 
legacy of arctic conservation.  According to Fred Seaton, the Secretary of 
the Interior under Eisenhower, the Arctic Refuge "offers the only 
opportunity for this Nation to preserve an undisturbed portion of the Arctic 
large enough to be biologically self-sufficient."

Celebrate the Arctic Refuge's birthday by taking action.  Honor President 
Eisenhower's vision of a protected arctic ecosystem and urge your senators 
and your representative to support Wilderness designation for the Arctic 
Refuge. 

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