{"id":25914,"date":"2002-01-07T16:05:07","date_gmt":"2002-01-07T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25914"},"modified":"2016-01-05T10:41:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:41:20","slug":"arctic-reserve-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/01\/07\/arctic-reserve-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture looks at Arctic reserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/01\/leach-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/01\/leach-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"leach-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Timothy Leach, a 1999 graduate of Bates College, discusses his  fact-finding tour of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in a  lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, in the college&#8217;s Chase Lounge, 56  Campus Ave. The presentation is open to the public at no charge.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Following his graduation from Bates, Leach, a geology major,  established an outdoor education and leadership program involving  students from Bates and from grade schools in Lewiston and Auburn (for  more information click <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/1999\/08\/26\/leach-to-direct\/\">here<\/a>.  Now a resident of Greenwich, N.Y., Leach is an ardent outdoorsman and  environmental advocate. During his Alaskan visit he preceded his stay in  the ANWR with a partial climb of Denali (Mount McKinley) and a 500-mile  bike trek from Fairbanks north to Prudhoe Bay.<\/p>\n<p>During his five weeks in the refuge and the Prudhoe oil fields, Leach  discussed the possible effects of oil drilling in the ANWR with  natives, scientists, environmentalists, journalists and oil workers.  &#8220;There were many passionate voices offering original research that  indicated the potential for a serious negative impact if the coastal  plain in the ANWR were developed for oil,&#8221; he says. At particular risk  are the caribou that breed in the refuge and the native people who  depend on them for sustenance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my time in Alaska,&#8221; says Leach, &#8220;I have come to realize how  ecologically and culturally significant the coastal plain of the ANWR  is.&#8221; The notion, he says, &#8220;that we would trade it for a mere 3.2 billion  barrels of oil, just enough to keep the United States fueled for six  months, is ridiculously short-sighted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Leach&#8217;s lecture, please call 207-786-6330.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Leach, a 1999 graduate of Bates College, discusses his fact-finding tour of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in a lecture at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, in the college&#8217;s Chase Lounge, on Campus Avenue. The presentation is open to the public at no charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,31],"tags":[10760,10841,10830,8735],"class_list":["post-25914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-environmental-studies","tag-geology","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-timothy-leach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91121,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25914\/revisions\/91121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}