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...companies waited anxiously last week for word from Washington, D.C. that would start the greatest northern land rush since the Klondike gold strike. They had swarmed to Anchorage by the score this fall after Richfield Oil Corp. made Alaska's first big oil find in the nearby Kenai national game preserve (see map). So promising was the well (900 bbl. a day) that the companies are prepared to sink $100 million into the search for more. If they are just moderately successful, they will invest another $200 million in production, refining, transport and storage facilities. This would bring...
Conflict. When the Government in "1941 set aside 2,000,000 marshy acres of the Kenai Peninsula as a preserve for moose and other animals, no one cared because the land had no commercial value. But after Richfield's discovery, oilmen quickly filed for leases on nearly 12 million acres in and around Kenai, and close, to 5,000,000 acres farther north...
This oil rush stirred up powerful conservationist lobbies in far-off Washington. To stop the drilling, they lined up for battle against the oilmen, and even against Alaska conservationists who wanted to throw open all Kenai for exploration. The Interior Department moved to pacify the lobbyists. It proposed stiffer rules for granting oil leases on all U.S. gameland, suggested that the pro-moose Fish and Wildlife Service get veto power over gameland leases. And until the rules were formally adopted, the department suspended all leasing...
...rapidly multiplying. Their greatest enemy is not the oilmen, but the Alaska Railroad-a creature of the conservationist Interior Department-which last winter killed 366 moose on the tracks. For those moose who prefer desolation to civilization, there are vast areas of ideal scrub brush and timberland outside Kenai untouched by man or derrick. In fact, only 10% of Alaska's moose live in the preserve...
...Kenai, Alaska...