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Article: Balancing act over Alaskan crude oil continues.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- June 29, 2004
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By Duncan Adams, The Roanoke Times, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 29--Biologists warn the decision could affect thousands of migrating geese, caribou and the Inupiat Eskimos who hunt them for food.
The scenario is familiar. In one of the nation's wildest places, oil and wildlife inhabit the same ground.
No, not at ANWR -- the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- the focus of prolonged, impassioned debate about the compatibility of oil drilling, wilderness, wildlife and Alaska's indigenous people.
This wildlife haven is Teshekpuk Lake in Alaska. The lake and environs are west of the wildlife refuge and Prudhoe Bay. ...