For Release:  Oct. 10, 2000

CNN&TIME Reports on the Fate of the Wild

     With environmental issues among the hottest topics in the current
presidential race, CNN correspondent  Mark Potter reports for CNN&TIME on the
fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Sunday, Oct.
15, at 9 p.m.
(ET) on CNN/U.S.
     For the past two decades, nearly a quarter of America's oil production has
come from a site just 60 miles from the refuge.  With its braided
rivers, rugged
mountains and coastal plains, ANWR remains one of America's untamed places.
Now, in one of the country's biggest land battles, the lines are drawn between
those who want this natural treasure preserved and those who want to tap the
riches that may lie below.
     While the battle heats up between the presidential candidates and between
environmentalists and the oil industry, CNN&Time also looks at the struggle at
ground zero - where North Slope Eskimos favor drilling and Gwich'in Indian
oppose it.  The Eskimos, who own land where oil companies want to drill, stand
to earn large royalties. The Gwich'in, in turn, fear development will decimate
the caribou herd on which they depend to sustain their subsistence hunting
culture.
     Industry supporters argue that it would be easy to extend the reach of the
Trans-Alaska Pipeline and revive dwindling production by pumping oil from the
Wildlife Refuge. But environmentalists argue that the so-called "footprint of
development" would inevitably lead to industrial sprawl, spoiling the land
forever.
     "The Fate of the Wild" is produced by Scott Wallace and Kimberly
Arp Babbit.
The Oct. 16 edition of TIME  Magazine will also feature an article on ANWR
written by Wallace, who led the news team to the Alaskan Arctic in
the last days
of summer.
     CNN&TIME is a weekly television newsmagazine that brings together the
reporting and global reach of two news leaders.  Airing each Sunday from 9-10
p.m. and co-anchored by Jeff Greenfield and Bernard Shaw, CNN&TIME draws upon
the world-wide newsgathering resources of both CNN and Time to bring viewers
investigative reports, documentary features and profiles.

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