...Kempthorne, making his first visit to Alaska's North Slope, was to take a helicopter tour later Tuesday over Lake Teshekpuk, an environmentally sensitive region where the department is putting oil leases up for sale despite protests from...

...oil beneath an environmentally sensitive area near Lake Teshekpuk. Environmentalists want to keep the area off limits...leases to nearly 500,000 acres north and east of Lake Teshekpuk late next month. It will likely be a decade before...

...issues at The tens of thousands of acres in and around Lake Teshekpuk on Alaska's North Slope are part of the oil-rich...argue that parts of it - especially the region around Lake Teshekpuk - should be excluded from the lease sales. They contend...

...environmentally sensitive area surrounding Lake Teshekpuk on Alaska's North Slope. Sound...000 acres north and east of Lake Teshekpuk. The government, in papers filed...opposed to oil leases going near Lake Teshekpuk," said Tony Iallonardo, spokesman...