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The "coastal plain" in question in ANWR. A caribou stands over the Hula Hula river.

The Refuge and the Draft EIS, Part 1: What is the Draft EIS?

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is a 19.5 million acre swath of largely roadless tundra in northeast Alaska. It’s one of the largest wildlands in the United States that has not been dramatically altered by human development, and contains ecosystems ranging from coastal estuaries teeming with waterfowl to plains of permafrost to mountains on the north slope of the Brooks Range.