Not included in the 38m is the 1.5m acre coastal plain area of ANWR.
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But they support development on the coastal plain, for straightforward economic reasons.
"The coastal plain of the refuge is only a tiny fraction of the entire North Slope of Alaska, " he argued, waving his hand in a wide arc.
At peak times, up to 16 bullet trains an hour travel each way along the densely populated coastal plain that is home to over half of Japan's 128m people.
That cold current is the reason why Peru's coastal plain is a desert (whose soil can be made fertile when irrigated by the waters of rivers rushing down from the Andes).
It left the door open to oil drilling on about 8 percent of the refuge along the coastal plain, but it would take an act of Congress for the drilling to start.
General Description Bordered to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, this biosphere reserve is situated in the lower coastal plain in the Carolinian-South Atlantic region close to the city of Charleston.
If you drove to Jerusalem this evening from Tel Aviv, as the coastal plain suddenly ended 25 kilometers from the city at Shaar Haguy or Bab el Wahd, you reached the starting point of the siege of Jerusalem from 1947.
I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.
It's always been generalized that the Gwich'in Indians, who don't actually live on the coastal plain but are along the migration corridor of the caribou that calve in the refuge, that they're the only ones who oppose drilling, and that the Inupiat Eskimos are all in favor of drilling since they stand to gain financially.
The area is at the western edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, which abruptly descend to a coastal agricultural plain.
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