TERM LIMITS wrote: "Destroy? Please explain. The ONLY people that visit this area are very wealthy (or people that have saved and saved) who can afford the flight and believe me, NO ONE stays there. I suspect less than 1,000 people a year venture to ANWR, which puts it in very exclusive territory, NOT for the good of the whole."
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I meant just what I wrote TL - destroy.  It is a publicly owned and legally designated wilderness  area bounded to the East by similar areas in Canada.  Put in extraction industry infrastructure and it will be destroyed.  Then of course there is the irony that extraction would not be done out of need, but out of greed.  Perhaps we are just of much different mindsets about what is important.  You seem to be focused on money and access, I noticed you don't even mention the native inhabitants or the wildlife.  Ted Stevens used to do the same thing and say there was nothing there, I think he even referred to it as "wasteland" on occasion.