Housekeeping
By Josh Mahan  11/3/08
A return from sabbatical. Words on Obama's slanderous use of treehugger and Tester's feeble attempts at change.
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.

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Panamanian Indigenous Leaders Condemn Market Solutions By Rebecca Sommer  11/3/08 Panama is at a crossroads with dozens of hydro projects proposed. In the middle are the Naso and Ngobe peoples, jaguars, and biodiversity. News from a recent trip to D.C. Coal Plants Pollute Colorado River Basin By John Weisheit  11/3/08 Sometimes the pollution is so severe you can't see across the Grand Canyon. A list of culprits. Navajo Nation Challenges Head Fed Nuke Board 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.

Killing Earth Angels By Bert Bentley  11/3/08 Environmentalists world wide have been murdered by industry for their advocacy of preservation. We've started a list, by no means comprehensive, to remember. When Forests Fall On Banks By Lance Olsen  11/3/08 On logging fragile forests to build an unsustainable housing market and the end of growth. You Build Roads By The Radikal Weatherman  11/3/08 you build ROADS loud, toxic, and invasive like double-edged daggers 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 he is 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 green 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. Dispelling The Cowboy Myth: George Wuerthner Interview By Tim Lengerich   5/30 Public lands ranching is the number one cause of western species endangerment. 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. 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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