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The heavy vehicles of the oilmen roam widely over Northern Canada, leaving trails gouged out of the virgin tundra. The damage they inflict on the vegetation may mark them as a basic problem in the conservation of the Arctic.
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BELLAMY, D., RADFORTH, J. & RADFORTH, N. Terrain, Traffic and Tundra. Nature 231, 429–432 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/231429a0
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