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Colorado
River Blues
By Josh Mahan 10/10
 The Glen Canyon
dam is not designed for the 500-year flood that threatens it. It's a
safety issue.
The Chafe of the West
By Josh Mahan 6/30
Thoughts on Lowbagger's upcoming 1,000-mile river trip documentary, and
the continued pollution of Yellowstone.
Citizen's Arrest
By Josh Mahan 3/25
A
West Virginia judge rules that Army Corps of Engineers has been handing
out illegal mountaintop removal permits.
There
Has To Be A Better
Way To Get To ELAW
 By Josh Mahan 3/15
A
funder, a founder, a folk musician, and an editor find their way to
ELAW.
The Lost Art of Shattuck
By Josh Mahan 2/17
Tales
from a different village's well. A good old-fashioned drinking story.
Man Without
A Bio-Region
Squish The Grape
By
Mike Roselle 3/26
It
is time for
progressives to seize political control using the Republican-backed
impending environmental disaster as their central issue.
 Where The Buffalo Roam
By
Mike Roselle 2/28
On
the state of Al
Gore and you needing get out to the Buffalo Field Campaign.
Sacrificed In Apocalypse
By
Mike Roselle 1/30
Mike
tells us where
he's been hiding and waxes philosophical on child-rearing in the
post-Atomic era.
 Happy
Freaking
New
Year
By
Mike Roselle 12/18
We
have entered the
Carbon Age, an era of limits that American consumers must learn to live
with.
Greens Flex Muscle
For Democratic Victory
By Mike Roselle 11/22
Like blue jeans and
rock 'n roll,
some things never go out of style.
Being green is hip and
candidates
must respond or lose their job.
To read Roselle's archive
of columns click here.
Floogle Watch
 The
$11 Martini
By
Uncle Ramon
Ramon traces the
inflation of the martini after a drink order in a D.C.
aristocratic stronghold.
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 Navajos Challenge Head Fed Nuke Board In
Court
By
Jennifer Marshall 5/9/08
The land, air,
water, and health of the Navajo hinges on upcoming ruling.
 Hydro Project
Threatens Patagonia Rivers, Forests
By
Paula Palmer 5/6/08
The Aysen faces
massive hydro, doesn't consider alternatives.
 Off-Road Vehicles Dominate Forest Plan
By
Phil Knight 3/27/08
The Beaverhead-Deerlodge forest is facing
severe threat to motorized use.Write in now!
 Life Afloat
By Josh Mahan 3/8/08
The unabridged
tale of three boaters wandering through the desert for 106 days until
attacked by restless Natives.
 1872 Mining Law Falls Short
By
Lauren Pagel 1/28/08
Current interpretation of the law calls
for mining to be the "highest and best" use for public land, ignoring
the importance of drinking water, recreation, and wildlife.
 59 Coal Plants
Cancelled, Abandoned, or Hold In 2007
By
Sourcewatch 1/22/08
Coal plants are
viewed as no longer politically feasible in the new Era of Climate
Change Realization, scrapped across the States.
 Republicans Abandon
Jaguar Recovery
By
Kieran Suckling 1/21/08
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided not to develop a
recovery plan for the jaguar, which has been on the Endangered Species
list since 1997.
 Finding Hope In A New Climate: Part II
By Lance Olsen 1/5/08
Determining the winners and losers as
species respond to climate change.
 Bob's Cooler
By Jen Sauer 10/18
260 miles and 17
days later Bob's Cooler was found, and on night upstream rowing.
 Down The River Camp Log, Days 27-43
By Jen Sauer 10/10
The crew has made it through Cataract,
read the day by day.
 They Said It Couldn't
Be Done
By Josh Mahan 9/23
The
crew is 400 miles into the 1,000 mile journey. Catch the adventure from
Green River, Wyoming to Green River, Utah. Gear wreckage, flatwater
records, running dams. It's all here.
 Down The River Camp Log
By Jen Sauer 9/23
Retrace the
journey through twenty-six epic camps and journal entries of each day.
 The Game of Life --
An Alternate Strategy
By
Dave Carvell 6/29
A man who chucks it
all to live on the land while keeping his office job and hitting a tent.
 Direct Action: The Antidote To Despair
By
Zoe Blunt 6/26
The Wild Earth
gathering in British Columbia assembled to protest the way that works
best, on the ground and in the face on the lawless.
 No Tax Break Too Big
For Wildlife Destruction
By
Alan Gregory 6/13
Wild turkey,
grouse and songbird habitat is gone. Developers
and tax breaks took care of it.
 Montana Plans To Kill Bison Calves
By
Stephany Seay 5/30
Bison are marked for
slaughter over bad science and cowboy politics. You can still help.
 Chinese Activist Jailed, Wants Lake Clean-Up
By
Andreas Landwehr 5/30
Detainment for green
speech is a common practice in China.
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 Emancipation
By
David Thomson 5/9/08
The twisted road
of being present in politics to letting a representative bind the yoke
with newspeak democracy.
 The
Monkey Wrench Gang --
Thirty Years And On
By
D. Ritchey 5/6/08
A modern-day review of the controversial
and celebrated tale that captured imaginations of
generations.
 Home
By
Elba Kramer 3/8/08
In the final
dispatch of the Chrome Diaries even the buried streams find their old
courses and remember the sun.
 Spoiled Baby Boomers
By
Charles Amarack 3/8/08
Lowbagger poetry. Enormous hinges creak,
the cathedral fills
our ears, with the prayed out remnants
of our greedy dreams.
 Celebrating Wilderness
By
Roderick Nash 2/7/08
Like baseball and jazz, wilderness is an
American invention. Once considered a liablity it is now an asset.
 Fostering Better Forest
Policy With Science
By
Cameron Nacify 1/22/08
Thinning for
restoration should be treated as experimental as fire suppression was
in the last century.
 The
Road In
By
Gary Cardwell 1/21/08
A poem lamenting
dirt turned pavement on the road into
Terlingua, Texas.
 Pursuit of
Happiness
By
Mike Roselle 1/5/08
What did 1,000
miles of hard rowing teach Mike about happiness and where America is
going wrong?
 home
By
Dennis Fritzinger 1/5/08
Lowbagger's poet
on celestial composition and the fixity of time.
 Oil,
Beer, and 3.2
By
Mike Roselle 10/18
Vast libraries
don't need books, just look at the record of these canyons. What do
they say of the future?
 Reservoir Dogs
By
Mike Roselle 10/10
Our heroic
traveler has braved much along the way, but is he finally pinched down
on Lake Powell*. Will he make it?
 Down The River With Rod Nash
By
Mike Roselle 9/23
Rod Nash is a bona
fide river and wilderness legend. We caught up with him on the river
for a few days. Here's what Rod says about the sport of running wild
rivers.
 The
End
By
D.M. Ritchey 6/29
The cities have
fallen and our hero has been driven to the mountains to eke out
existence.
 June Letters
Letters on Gore's
unworthiness, making the
environment hip, beef boycotts, and, yep, wolf hate mail.
6/13
 San Vicente, Texas
By Gary Cardwell 6/4
Lowbagger poetry on
Big Bend's
once busy town of San Vicente.
 Words From
The Buffalo Frontline
By
Eric Stewart 5/30
A buffalo volunteer
was subject to a controversial and violent arrest for asking highway
patrol to close a road.
 Dispelling The Cowboy Myth: George
Wuerthner Interview
By Tim
Lengerich 5/30
Public lands ranching
is the number one cause of western species endangerment.
 Kramer vs. Kramer
By
Elba Kramer 5/30
Heartbreak can slowly
mend as one man grapples with voluntary poverty and the urge to spend a
little less, drive a little less, hurt a little less, and work a little
less for the man.
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March 2007
Dead's Not Always Dead
By
Nathaniel Hoffman
Finding Hope In A New Climate
By
Lance Olsen
Judi's Work and Warnings Prove True
By
Mike Roselle
The Time Is Now To Protect
The Rockies
By
Will Boyd
13 Arrested Demand Clean
Marsh Fork
Elementary
By
Sarah Haltom
Great Bear Wilderness Deal
Dubbed Release Disaster
By
Chris Genovali
(and
many more articles, click for the
complete March
archives)
November
2006
Pullin' The Wool In Montana
With Dick Cheney
By Josh Mahan
Greens Flex Muscle
For Democratic Victory
By Mike Roselle
Cows, God, and Steel Join
Push For
Conservation Area
By Joy
Owen
Review: The Essential Grizzly
By
Lance Olsen
Hatchery Fish Shadows Of Their Wild Kin
By
Alan Gregory
(and
many more articles, click for the
complete November
archives)
August
2006
Indiana DNR Assaults Logging
Protest
By Drew Laird
Adventures With The FBI:
How I Was Investigated As A Terrorist
By
Jim Bensman
Elementary School Pollution Prompts
Walk To D.C.
By
Adam Daniel
Irony Runs Through It
By Mike
Roselle
Is It Still Rape If A Horse Does It?
By Julie Crist
Keep It Wild
By Phil Knight
(and
many more articles, click for the
complete August
archives)
May 2006
Wind Growers And The
Rainbow Warriors
By
Mike Roselle
Ice Cream Wilderness
Deals
On
The Beaverhead
By
George Wuerthner
Cheap Solar Power Threatens
Coal
Industry
By
David Merrill
Pennsylvania Leads Dam Removal Charge
By
Alan Gregory
Dr. Strangewhore
By
Paul Watson
The Eighteen Speed Desert
By
Irwin Wingo
(and
many more articles, click for the
complete May
archive)
February 2006
Devil
In the Details Of Boulder-White Cloud
Wilderness
Proposal
By Tina-Marie
Ekker
Coal Industry and State Ignore
Black Tap Water
By
Antrim Caskey
The
Bozone Layer
By
Greg Keeler, Phil Knight, and Hobie Hare
Urgent Action Can Help
Big Mountain Natives
(and
many more articles, click for the
complete February archive)
(and
many more articles, click
for
complete October/Nov.
archive)
May 2005
February
2005
A Healthy- Sized Harvest
By Matt Koehler
Bush
Yucks It Up In Montana
By Josh Mahan
Satan Is
My Co-Pilot
By Mike Roselle
Death of Environmentalism Merely Wishful Thinking
By Paul
Watson
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