ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE
And
SIERRA CLUB
 
 
CONTACTS: 
Karen Tigges:  515-274-0545
Jane Clark:       515-223-5047
Lois Norgarrd: 952-881-7282
 
GOT ICE DES MOINES? 
Polar Bear to Search for Ice and Public Support for Arctic Home
 
DES MOINES – On Saturday, December 19, a wandering polar bear will be
searching for ice in Des Moines while asking the public to speak out in
support of the federal government’s newly proposed critical habitat for
the polar bear in America’s Arctic.  
 
Late last month, the Department of the Interior (DOI) proposed that a
wide swath of Arctic waters and land – including the majority of the
coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – be designated as
critical habitat for the threatened polar bear under the Endangered
Species Act. Currently, a 60 day public comment period on the proposed
designation is underway. 
 
However, at the same time DOI is making several key decisions on oil and
gas drilling in these same lands and waters. In the same week that they
announced the proposed critical habitat, they also approved a plan for
Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic’s Beaufort Sea in 2010. As a result, a
polar bear will be in Des Moines at the Brenton Skating Plaza seeking out
ice and to ask the public to sign postcards telling DOI to ensure that
the decisions they make don’t make things worse for this imperiled
species.  
 
WHAT: Alaska Wilderness League’s polar bear mascot will be speaking out
about protecting its Arctic habitat. 

WHO: Ice-P (Alaska Wilderness League’s polar bear) 
 
WHERE: Brenton Skating Plaza, 520 Robert D. Ray Dr., Des Moines

WHEN:  Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

VISUALS: Polar bear mascot, plus informational handouts and postcards to
sign.  
Press and TV reporters will be invited to cover the event.

For more information visit www.alaskawild.org
 
 
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