MySpace a place for friends

If you want to keep learning about me, and stay up to date, Subscribe to my blog. People seem to like what I have to say, and there's no doubt that I have a unique perspective. I've been looking around, and not a lot of land masses have their own blogs (though I have found a few).

I've been around for a long time, and known a lot of people. I've known the Inupiat Eskimos the longest, and they're still some of my best friends. I was first officially protected by the United States government in 1960 when Fred A. Seaton, the Secretary of the Interior under U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, created me. I got a lot bigger in 1980, when Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Ever since that day, I've been a subject of a great deal of controversy. Can a wildlife refuge be drilled? If so, how should it be done, and under what circumstances. You can probably imagine my opinion of the whole thing. I can see Prudhoe bay from here, and I have no interest in being carved up, poked, and paved over like she has.

I got tired of hearing about it recently, and decided I should say something. So here I am. It's been really confusing, but I've made some great friends here at MySpace, and a lot of them have helped me figure out how to exist here in this virtual world. It's very different...very much faster than what I'm used to. But it's exciting, and even a little addictive.

I'm happy to say that my existence in this virtual medium is supported by Alaska Wilderness League, a leading DC-based non-profit group. Dedicated to public education and happy to be your voice for wilderness, the League in this case decided to quite literally give me a voice. Rest assured, however, that I'm not here to promote Alaska Wilderness League. I'm simply here to find new friends and to tell my ongoing story.

Want to know what you can do to help? Check out http: Alaska Wilderness Week , and keep don't forget to check my blog for my deepest thoughts, feelings, news updates, and calls to action!

Anyone who wants to spend time with me, or help me through some difficult times I've been having. Does that sound needy? Sometimes it feels like the whole world is against me, but I know I have a lot to offer without sacrificing the most unique parts of me.

If you're that kind of person, I'd love to be your friend, and if you want to be more than just my friend, send me a message, there are a ton of ways you can help me out.

I'm pretty open, I'll be friends with anyone, any color, any sex, any species. That's just how I am. But, to bluntly answer the question "who I'd like to meet", I sure would like to meet George W Bush. He's never stopped by to see how I'm really doing, not even once, and I'm sure that if we could talk, we could work out some of our differences.