This is a critical time for America’s Arctic: A vast and wild region that is home to millions of acres of culturally and biologically rich land. Home to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and the Western Arctic Reserve, America’s Arctic presents an unparalleled opportunity to protect public lands on an unprecedented scale, fight climate change, and sustain the biodiversity that we all rely upon.

The Arctic Refuge and the Western Arctic Reserve, and the entire region, are the traditional homelands of Gwich’in and Iñupiat peoples who have stewarded and relied upon these lands for millennia. We stand with them to defend these irreplaceable landscapes from destructive oil and gas drilling.