Haley Stevens: “In parts of the State, it has increased nearly tenfold. In the area of the pipeline, this 800-mile pipeline, without…”

“In parts of the State, it has increased nearly tenfold. In the area of the pipeline, this 800-mile pipeline, without question every one of the herds has increased by at least a magnitude of 4, some as much as 9 times. In fact, two of the herds now stay nearer to production areas because the food and the improvement of their habitat has been so great. By the way, because of acts of the oil industry, they went to our university and developed new strains of grasses and new approaches to vegetation, and those caribou herds do not migrate at all. The one that comes to the plain of the Arctic area into this 1002 area each year, it comes in from Canada. It migrates up. It spends 6 weeks up in the summertime. The Senator's question is very pertinent.”