1. Anyone who loves the outdoors, wildlife and pristine wilderness must agree. 2. ANWR is managed by the federal government and is among the most pristine wilderness areas in the world. 3. A professional hunter today gets almost nothing from the state, except the exclusive right to hunt on huge swaths of pristine wilderness. 4. But it might be needed to protect a pristine wilderness from the drill-first, conserve-never crowd. 5. But time may be catching up with a place where pristine wilderness and a hardy, resourceful human population still coexist. 6. California art tends to be associated with the great outdoors, the pristine wilderness landscapes photographed by Ansel Adams or the sunlit colors in the paintings of Richard Dibenkorn. 7. Could the pristine wilderness survive rapid urbanization and industrialization? 8. Drilling for oil there, they argue, would ruin one of the few remaining pristine wildernesses on the planet. 9. Guests at the Crystal Creek Lodge, deep in the bush of southwestern Alaska near Bristol Bay, spend the day fly-fishing in pristine wilderness. 10. In many ways, the Allagash is anything but a pristine wilderness. |