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A relevant question based on an Aldo Leopold quote(sic).
"The trouble with wilderness is everyone wants to see it, touch it, feel it, but when they are done there is no wildness left in the wilderness."
So who does the most damage, the one person that puts down the first tracks in a remote valley in 20 years or the crowd swarming a National Moneymint?
Stole the Moneymint line from Ed Abbey...
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I don't live in Alaska so really it's none of my business.
My opinion?
Well, I wish that we'd develop large scale geo thermal energy development in the lower 48 before developing ANWAR.
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The way to see if it is economically feasible is to put some leases up for bid. There are companies producing in N. AK now. The company I work for has a project up there that has been producing for several years. If it's economic companies will bid on it. The oil industry is responsible for some amazing advances in technology. If it can be done they will find a way or invent one. I'm constantly amazed at the advances that have been made throughout my career.
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Campfire Kahuna
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I don't live in Alaska so really it's none of my business.
My opinion?
Well, I wish that we'd develop large scale geo thermal energy development in the lower 48 before developing ANWAR. Yeah, how do you suppose we will get the geo-thermal up here to drive around? Or to benefit the people of AK? And did you catch the relative size of ANWR?
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Ranger
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Drill it ...yesterday!!!!
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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[I'm a newby to urban Alaska, so I'm still in the pondering stage about what makes places like Fairbanks 'float', with all it's Seattle-ites, Tennessee-ites, Colorado-ites, and every other flavor of 'ite' you can imagine, which seem to outnumber the folks who have actually spent time in the greater part of the state.]
To me, "Bareflanks" is too hot in the Summer and too cold in the Winter. Down in the Fairbanks bowl, the Winter air is like trying to breathe Kerosene. My experience is that most people in Fairbanks "march to the beat of a drum that no one else can hear"?
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Artillery lends dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl.
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Landed in Fairbanks because of an emergency once and the Flight Attendant over the loud speaker said "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Fairbanks, please set your watches back 15 years!"
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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To me, "Bareflanks" is too hot in the Summer and too cold in the Winter. Down in the Fairbanks bowl, the Winter air is like trying to breathe Kerosene. My experience is that most people in Fairbanks "march to the beat of a drum that no one else can hear"
hard to argue with that
Eat moose, burn spruce
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Landed in Fairbanks because of an emergency once and the Flight Attendant over the loud speaker said "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Fairbanks, please set your watches back 15 years!" Not any more. It seems a lot like Seattle Lite these days, IMO of course. Lots of plastic houses and plastic people now.
Sometimes, the air you 'let in'matters less than the air you 'let out'.
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