11.   An island off Redwood City has become the focus of an international campaign aimed at persuading its Japanese owners to sell it to a wildlife refuge.

12.   And at least one senator, John Kerry, D-Mass., has said he will block any attempts to permit oil drilling in the Alaskan wildlife refuge.

13.   And more to the point, is bringing people and money into the system worth risking the isolation of a wildlife refuge?

14.   And he faulted the governor for promoting increased logging in national forests and opening up the arctic wildlife refuge for oil drilling.

15.   And visitors to some wildlife refuges and recreation areas will also be paying fees for the first time.

16.   And they emphasize the difference between proposals to drill in land meant as a wildlife refuge versus land that Congress set aside specifically for oil.

17.   And Young negotiated with the Clinton administration and conservation groups to come up with a new law governing the operations of wildlife refuges.

18.   Another bill would transfer a federal wildlife refuge in Oklahoma to state authorities, who are eager to open it for recreational use.

19.   As a wildlife refuge, the land can not be developed, except perhaps some for some low-impact recreational purposes.

20.   Assateague Island includes the national seashore, a state park and a national wildlife refuge.