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Article: Midnight hour for Alaska's coastal plain.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 25, 2001
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The law locks up both man and woman who steals the goose from off the common but lets the greater felon loose who steals the common from the goose.
--Anonymous
In 1620, a common was the acre of green II in a New England village. Villagers grazed I their animals there or met for a revival. In 2001, a common is something we fight over. It is a battleground of values.
The latest and most fragile common in public dispute is the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in northern Alaska. The Porcupine caribou herd, 180,000 animals strong, arrives on the coastal plain every summer after a migration of over 400 miles from the Yukon ...