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I’ve never really understood the Republican obsession with ruining wilderness areas. They like to use words like stewardship when what they really want to do effectively equates to pillaging the landscape. Just because the square footage of the roads and improvements themselves will only take up a few hundred acres does not mean that the impact from those improvements is limited to those few acres.

U.S. Reverses Accord and Opens 389,000 Acres in Alaska to Explore for Oil: “The decision reverses a compromise intended to protect the habitat of migratory birds and the hunting grounds of Inupiat natives.”

(Via NYT > Science.)

It’s not a hard concept. I don’t understand why they just don’t get it.

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