NUSAVE is our acronym that stands for National Uniform Services And Veterans Endowment, and NEW is our acronym for National Endowment for Wildlife.
They are both our so-called “brainchildren” that have been our main concerns for pretty much the entire time of our 62-year marriage.
Military has been part of our lives from the day we were both born during the Second World War in 1942, Francoise in January in Normandy, France, and Ted in Massachusetts, USA.
Both our fathers, and several other relatives, served in the military. Ted volunteered for the USAF and luckily served in Normandy, France where we met on a Normandy beach on a Fourth of July weekend in 1962 and married a year later.
We both served as civil servants in Washington D.C. and have always been very concerned with veterans affairs.
We’ve also been outdoors enthusiasts since we were children, and indeed founded the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) with the gift of our estate to our country in 1983 when we served in Washington.
Our second gift to our country is NUSAVE that we created more recently here, in Alaska, where we have most happily lived for the past quarter century. We have entrusted NUSAVE to the good care of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance, in the fervent hope that it will reach its full potential very soon!
Information on NUSAVE can be seen in our separate website by clicking on the link to it, on this website.
But here, we wish to speak about the NEW and its logical location in the NFWF.
The NEW is simply the essence of ANWR, in the same way that the wildlife is simply the essence of Alaska. All Alaska is wild, with far less than a million people living in an area 1/5th the size of the entire rest of the United States, Alaska is nothing but wilderness.
Indeed, all 10 of America’s largest so-called National Wildlife Refuges, are all located here in Alaska and they are all between 10 and 20 million acres each, with ANWR being the largest.
But even here, in Anchorage, where we, along with half the population of Alaska live, there are plenty of wild animals, like moose, bears, and eagles.
In reality, ANWR is no “Serengeti of the North” as loudly proclaimed by the extremely romantic wildlife preservationists sitting in their urban cities dreaming up more outrageous ways to pick gullible people’s pockets.
Rather, ANWR is desolate wilderness of abundant wildlife natural resources, both alive and dead, with the live animal and plant natural wildlife resources above ground, while below ground there are billions of barrels of fossil fuel oil and gas, made up of the ancient remains of dead animals and plants that are equally natural wildlife resources.
And yes, that oil and gas can well be responsibly drilled and extracted to greatly benefit all American lives. That’s exactly what Alaska has been successfully doing for decades only 60 miles to the west of ANWR in the Prudhoe Bay oilfield that has already produced many billions of barrels of oil, without harming wildlife that has increased thriving in the midst of responsible oil production.
During decades of greatly beneficial North Slope Prudhoe Bay oil production, we have strongly advocated opening ANWR to the same oil and gas production since we put our money where our mouths are with the gift of our estate to our country and founded the NFWF 40 years ago that has become the largest wildlife funding entity in America.
President Trump, in his first term finally opened ANWR but then it was wrongly blocked again by Biden for the past 4 years, and now Trump wants to “drill, baby, drill” ANWR in his delayed second term and greatly benefit our country with its abundant natural energy resources.
We emphatically say yes indeed drill, baby, drill ANWR, but also benefit our natural wildlife resources sitting on top of our natural energy resources by splitting the governmental revenue from production 3 ways; 1/3rd to create a new National Wildlife Endowment (NEW) located in the NFWF where it logically belongs, 1/3rd to the state of Alaska, and 1/3rd to the federal government.
And that’s what this website is all about, finishing half our life’s work, along the other half, represented by NUSAVE, in our other website.
Below we’ve added a few of our favorite photos and videos of our beloved Alaska, our American treasure house of natural resources.
We also included documentation on the NFWF at the bottom of this website as well as at the bottom of our other NUSAVE website.
We hope you enjoy both our websites and support our life’s work!
