Where the Wild Things Are

In April 2020, Girl Friday started tracking the Trump administration's renewed focus on auctioning off oil and gas drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). On December 3, 2020, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced that the controversial sale of oil and gas leases will take place on January 6, 2021. Indigenous activists, politicians, and conservation groups have been working hard to block this outcome for decades. Can we save ANWR?