Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR): Where Caribou Meet Oil Conduits (plus some coal pictures) Above: USGS 03/pipeline.html 03/pipeline.html Right: Fish and Wildlife Service 03/pipeline.html

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Oil and gas aren’t quite as photogenic as mountains or canyons. Here are a few pictures from ANWR, and some shots showing oil wells, coal mines, and the occurrence of oil, gas and coal in the U.S. You might want to know that, with heating, plant turns to peat to lignite to bituminous to anthracite, that western PA has bituminous and eastern PA has anthracite, and that making oil too hot produces natural gas so western PA has oil but eastern PA doesn’t.

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge leahy.senate.gov/issues/ environment/caribou.gif The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (above) and its caribou (right). Photos from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; photo below hosted on web site of Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge north.html Satellite image showing ANWR. To the north (top of picture) sea ice floats in the Beaufort Sea. Below, rivers drain from snow-covered mountains.

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Slightly fuzzy USGS map of oil (green), gas (red), and a lot of dry holes (gray) for the U.S. Alaska is reduced to fit; ANWR is at the far north (top) of Alaska. ns/blm/energy/o&g_assess.htm

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge pioneers.html pioneers.html Historical photo of the world’s first oil well, Drake Well Museum, Titusville, PA. Modern Pennsylvania oil well. This happens to be a well that was seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) of the U.S. Government as part of investigation of drug crimes.

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge USGS map of coal resources in the contiguous U.S. The numbers and blue lines refer to different coal regions used in USGS studies. 1-3 on the far right are anthracite, 4-8 and (shown in green and blue) are bituminous (of various grades; greener colors are closer to lignite, and the red bits in 4 and 7 are close to anthracite), and regions 9-11shown in yellow and orange are lignite. v/products/databases/U SCoal/figure1.htm

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Left: coal-fired Navajo power plant near Page, AZ. Upper right: Mining lignite-to-bituminous coal, WY. Lower right: Scientific sampling of Lower Freeport Coal, Indiana County, PA. USGS Circular 1143, Coal—A Complex Natural Resource, above by J.C. Willett, right R.W. Stanton, upper right P.D. Warwick, USGS.

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Slightly-low-resolution photos of peat from Indonesia (upper left), lignite from Texas (above; the darker beds are coal, lighter are volcanic ash) and bituminous from West Virginia (left; bituminous usually is blacker, but has been weathered here). USGS Circular 1143, Coal—A Complex Natural Resource, upper left by S.G. Neuzil, left by C.B. Cecil, above by P.D. Warwick, USGS.

Unit 12 - Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Left photograph from Colorado, 1914, US Bureau of Reclamation. Above from Warwick, Peter D., in preparation, Geologic Assessment of Coal in the Gulf Coastal Plain: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625E, CD-ROM. Draglines (left and top center) often are used to remove unwanted rock above coal in surface (“strip”) mines, such as the Gulf Coast lignite mine shown in the right-hand four pictures, where volcanic-ash interbeds separate the coal beds, with a fossil palm leaf (upper right).