text: The Gwich'in have depended on the Porcupine Caribou herd for cultural, spiritual and physical survival for 20,000 years.  They considered the Coastal Plain so sacred and vital to the survival of the Porcupine caribou herd they would not hunt there even when they were starving. The U.S. signed a treaty with Canada to protect the Porcupine caribou herd and its habitat.  President Dwight D. Eisenhower and a Republican Congress protected the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for its unique plant, animal and fish species, to honor International Treaty rights, recreation, subsistence hunting.  This is federal public land belonging to all Americans, NOT THE STATE OF AK OR FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES.