<p>Dear Nicole Hayes, Project Coordinator, Bureau of Land Management:</p><p>I am writing to express my strong opposition to drilling within the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</p><p>The Bureau of Land Management's recently released draft environmental impact statement provides an inadequate and incomplete assessment of how drilling will impact wildlife, climate change and the native Gwich'in who have relied on the landscape for millennia. Despite promising a robust, scientifically sound review process, the administration has repeatedly cut corners at every step of the way by requiring arbitrary deadlines and limitations on the scope of environmental review in order to rush through the leasing process in 2019. This shameful report only includes action alternatives that would drill most or all of the coastal plain and would open its entire 1.5 million acres to intrusive and harmful seismic exploration without meaningfully assessing those impacts either.</p><p>The coastal plain is the biological heart of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, home to abundant wildlife including polar and grizzly bears, wolves, muskoxen, Arctic fox and migratory birds from all fifty states. This vital landscape provides the most important onshore denning habitat for polar bears in the United States. Virtually the entire coastal plain is essential calving grounds for the Porcupine caribou herd - a species the Gwich'in depend on for their survival.</p><p>The American people deserve better. Alaska Natives deserve better. Our wildlife deserve better. Please put a stop to this aggressive attempt to drill our Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.</p>