Original 1978 map of ANWR missing.....

[JohnnyRingo]

...So they just drew a new one, to better suit the needs of the oil companies.

Arctic Map Vanishes, and Oil Area Expands

By FELICITY BARRINGER
Published: October 21, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 - Maps matter. They chronicle the struggles of empires and zoning boards. They chart political compromise. So it was natural for Republican Congressional aides, doing due diligence for what may be the last battle in the fight over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to ask for the legally binding 1978 map of the refuge and its coastal plain.

It was gone. No map, no copies, no digitized version.

The wall-size 1:250,000-scale map delineated the tundra in the biggest national land-use controversy of the last quarter-century, an area that environmentalists call America's Serengeti and that oil enthusiasts see as America's Oman.

The map had been stored behind a filing cabinet in a locked room in Arlington, Va. Late in 2002, it was there. In early 2003, it disappeared. There are just a few reflection-flecked photographs to remember it by.

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The missing map did not seem to include in the coastal plain tens of thousands of acres of Native Alaskans' lands. On the new map, those lands were included, arguably making it easier to open them to energy development.



More here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/21/politics/21map.html?ex=1287547200&en=9d977ffbe85285c6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss


Do they have to be so ridiculously corrupt?
Can it be more obvious that the corporations rule the White House?

Will this admin ever draw a line on morals and say that enough is enough? ....I guess not.

[merwin]

1. I have a hard time believing that nobody knows the boundaries of ANWR.

It's not like it's the lost city of Atlantis or anything. SOMEONE would have made a copy of it somewhere.

[madeline_con]

2. It's probably been stolen and is ....

hanging in some employee's den. :eyes:

[Lexingtonian]

3. nope

It's behind a file cabinet...in the boss's house.

[amerikat]

4. maps are constructed by surveys which are made by surveyors

The original surveys may be available. Should be filed in several place/localities.