Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 2001 GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Call for ISEE Nominations. Two positions are opening on the ISEE Nominating Committee, as well as the position of Secretary of ISEE. The nominating committee proposes candidates for official ISEE positions. The Secretary of the ISEE has five main duties: to handle society correspondence and writings, excluding the web page; to convene a business meeting once a year at one of the three APAs; to arrange the ISEE program at the Central Division APA; to send the ISEE newsletter to the membership; and to exercise executive control over the membership list generated by the Treasurer. Please send nominations by e-mail to Victoria Davion at
[email protected] and cc to Gary Varner at
[email protected]. The deadline for nominations is May 1, 2001. Please verify that persons nominated will be willing to serve. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is in danger. Millions of migratory birds, the Porcupine Caribou herd, polar bears, and a spectacular pristine wilderness are threatened, as pro- development forces make the strongest push ever to drill for oil in the refuge. There is scant evidence you can drill the Arctic in an environmentally sensitive manner: even under tight scrutiny, oil companies have continued to have accidents and spills in the nearby Naval Petroleum Reserve. A footprint in a wilderness area is still a footprint, and in the case of oil development, it is much more, including thousands of acres of roads and pipelines. Letters to Congress and Op-ed pieces defending ANWR are urgently needed.