NO MORE LIES
1002 facts vs. the propoganda of greed and corruption.
The following pages of detailed fact will refute the product of disinformation. If the public is to decide upon the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, let it be based upon truth, not the lies and propaganda of greed and corruption; to consider the posture of a lie, one must first confront the truth. What questions arise of such revelation? What doubt comes to light? What resistance comes to bear upon the confrontation of fact to supplant the fallacy? What is it within one's nature that supports the lie, if in fact the lie serves one's interest?

Thoughts to consider: a lie is a corruption of the human in service to humanity. Our lives, our children, our future, our very freedom stands at risk when we void the truth for the self-serving and selfish return of the lie. Whom does the lie serve? What of the truth is feared, pressing the corruption of lie to surface?

We are raised to tell the truth; to the people of faith, humanity is commanded to tell the truth. Truth is the underlying foundation of man's society, justice and civilization. In the absence of truth, civilization declines, families fail, society degrades. In the absence of truth ... freedom is lost; we as citizens are denied the democratic process when the lie controls our thoughts and decisions. The predetermined and calculated outcome of the lie denies a population the very exercise of meaningful choice and freewill.

When we are denied choice based upon truth, we are denied our rights as citizens of a democratic nation.

When denied our responsibility to conscience and being, we are denied our duty to the civilization of man.
Lie #1

The 1002 is a wasteland. The 1002 is a flat swamp. Life in the 1002 is confined only to 3 short summer months. The 1002 being characterized by a sheet of white poster-board, a blank nothingness.

This notion is so preposterous I never stopped to consider that anyone would actually listen, let alone believe. This representation of the 1002 region of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is so ridiculous, one would sooner believe that the moon is made of cheese ... that is, to one that knows the truth. During my participation at a summer film festival I was actually confronted with the questions: "... is there really anything up there?" "Are you the ANWR guy, there's nothing there, is there?"

Only then did I understand the extent to which such lies could reach .... the manipulated exercise of an individual's freewill goverened by the insidious propaganda of anti-fact ... the subversion of the democratic process.
May snow-melt to feed a river drainage within the 1002
Of all of our earth's most precious resources, who would dare characterize an endless supply of clean, fresh water as "nothing"?
Tundra elevation @ approximately 600 feet. Spring camp (center-right) in the 1002 overlooks the lower river basin.
The 1002 region of the Arctic Coastal Plain is an ever changing landscape that ranges from wide, level regions of wet, fertile grasslands to steep embankments and elevations reaching 1000 feet above sea level. Rivers, ponds, lakes and low lying wetlands assure its' inhabitants an abundant supply of fresh water. The foothills within the 1002 supports numerous river drainages and varied terrain that accompanies channels of snow and glacier melt that descend from adjacent mountains.

Rolling hillsides, gently sloped steppes that stretch forth from the mountains, winding and braided riverbeds that have sculpted the arctic landscape: to trek across this land is to appreciate and understand its' complexity. One may stand upon an elevation of tussocks and lichen at 850 feet: a hill-top, a knoll from which the surrounding view of a vast and undisturbed wilderness greets you in the perfect silence of an arctic dawn. The encounter of abrupt canyon formations command the utmost of respect.

The coastline is as likely to present a gently rolling landscape as it would a low and level region of polygons, kettle ponds and standing water. The shoreline is as likely to be backed by the twenty foot rise of coastal embankments as it is a level beach.

It is exactly the nature of such a widely varied landscape that sustains the great diversity of life that thrives within the 1002.
A Long-Tailed Jaeger in flight above the 1002 tundra. The 1002 background hill (not mountains) peaks at 900 plus feet above mean sea-level. The immediate tundra elevation (at camera) is 400-450 feet above coastline elevation 25 miles to the north.
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