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2005 Environmental News  Forest Service A Rogue Agency, Watchdog SaysBy PEER 3/1 A business-as-usual story involving your tax dollars and the Forest Service. Forty-four treehuggers can't be wrong as they consistently win lawsuits.  Raising the Bar: Checking In On Mountain
Justice SummerBy Mike Roselle 3/1 A mountaintop injustice is afoot in West Virginia. Roselle looks ahead to this summer.  Smokestack Six Member
Sentenced to 30 DaysBy Josh Raisler Cohn 3/1 A statement from a man arrested protesting the country's dirtiest power plant.  Freddies Take A Bite of The Biscuit By Kerul Dyer 3/9 The Forest Service takes advantage of an expired court injunction to start knocking down Oregon old growth in a post-burn timber sale.  Protecting Campaign Coffers, Not Nature: The Trials of Max Baucus By Joshua Frank 3/11 Max Baucus stuffs his campaign coffers full of money while the environment pays the price.  Women Draw the Line Against Lawless
LoggingThe Oxygen Collective 3/14 Women of the Siskiyou unite in mass arrest, protesting illegal logging in the Biscuit.  Saint Patty's at Saint Charlie'sBy Josh Mahan 3/17 Lowbaggers unite.  "Make Tea, Not War" By Elba Kramer 3/21 A gathering for peace in London.  Three Bull Bison Sent to Slaughter By The Buffalo Field Campaign 3/24 Yellowstone bison sent to slaughter.  A Volvo and Two Poles Halt Log Hauling By The Oxygen Collective 3/24 Also, a first hand account written by Brenda White, the woman who suspended herself from the Green Bridge.  Fishing: The New Resource WarBy Robert Ovetz 3/28 Leatherback turtles faces extinction within five years due to current long-line fishing techniques.  Mangrove Protection Would Have Lessened Tsunami's Impacts By Bryce Smedley 3/28 Mangrove destruction and coastline development created higher tsunami casulaties.  Maggot Fear and Loathing in SavannahBy Jake Jagoff 3/31 We cover the sports news nobody else does. A Lowbagger sports dispatch from the touring Missoula Maggots as they take it to the south.  Protesters Bring the Heat To Forest Service's Front Door Courtesy of Laurel 3/31 Biscuit protesters take their pleas to downtown Portland. Columns  Fear and Loathing For Wilderness
StudyBy Howie Wolke 3/1 Snowmobiles claim 15,000 acres in the Snowy Mountains Wilderness Study Area.  Foreseeing
and Forestalling: Standing Up to EcocideThe Annual Environmental Law Conference You Never Know When A Brother May Need A Part Roselle At Quiltman's By Michael Donnelly 3/23 Quiltman, Donnelly, and Roselle visit the medicine wheel.  Record Oil Profits Should Benefit Communities, Environment By David Gordon 3/17 Record oil profits should pay for environmental damage.  The Essex SublimeBy Elba Kramer 3/17 A modern day Thoreau grapples with chosen political exile.  Another Nagasaki BreakupBy Cap'n Sane 3/29 Out running breakdown and heartache hobo-style on the rails. Readings  Lowbagger
FictionCoyote Goes Snowboarding By Phil Knight World's collide when Coyote slides with the chic at Big Sky Ski Resort.  My Heroes Have Always Been Cowgirls By Mike Roselle 3/23 Exclusive interview with a Red-State Lowbagger.  Polar Tiger By Twilly Cannon 3/20 Captain's Log. A Heart of Charlie's tale from Twilly.  Snowbowl: A Place To Ski Without A Trustfund By Mike Roselle 3/28 The Interview With A Famous Missoula Waitperson series continues, Garland Davis.  Electric Wheat-Grass Acid TestBy Josh Mahan and Mike Roselle 3/31 A review of Woody Harrelson's documentary Go Further. Editor's Desk  Greens to Mingle and Sport By Josh Mahan 3/1 As Lowbagger survives its first month, it also readies to travel to Eugene to dispatch news from the annual ELAW Conference. Green Angst and Three Pointers By Josh Mahan 3/9 In honor of the gonzo, we had to cover the weekend's only sporting event. Radio-Free Roselle By Josh Mahan 3/12 Roselle drinks too much coffee and loses sight of his messaging on a Chicago radio show. Poser Patrol Heats Up By Josh Mahan 3/16 Posers, and an environmental tragedy, another step toward drilling the artic. I Thought They Knew It Was A Gay Bar By Josh Mahan 3/21 An account from the karaoke incident, and how I got him out of the bar without incident. Letters To The Editor  Letters to Lowbagger On the Death of Environmentalism. 3/14 Letters to Lowbagger On more work from women and Indian Country 3/20 Man Without A Bio-Region  By Mike Roselle 3/1 Everything Roselle learned, he learned on the lawn at ELAW. Farewell to Hunter By Mike Roselle 3/8 Roselle bids adieu to a fellow Louisville native. Shut Up and Get On the Bus By Mike Roselle 3/9 Get out to the Biscuit. Funding In The Dumpster By Mike Roselle 3/10 Roselle's not saying that we need to choose between funders and Dumpsters, but..... Women Must Do More Work By Mike Roselle 3/12 Since Mike and Floyd missed their flight, Roselle wrote this piece this morning. The Lowbagger Vision By Mike Roselle 3/14 Roselle publishes from the wilderness of the Pico de Guano. Mistakes We Have Made, And Will Continue to Make By Mike Roselle 3/15 Mike grapples with credibility. A History of White People In The Conservation Movement By Mike Roselle 3/16 Mike tries to get to the root of why most greens are so pale. Watching TV in Indian Country By Mike Roselle 3/17 Four months living amonst the Lakota. The Passion of the Wookie By Mike Roselle 3/19 Golden Brillo award winner Roselle remembers Jackson in the early '80s. I Never Went Back To Key West By Mike Roselle 3/20 A river trip with gay men rekindles the story of how Roselle landed in Wyoming. A Seedy Dive Bar In Cyberspace By Mike Roselle 3/21 Mike is home only where his elbows get sticky on the furniture. It's A Big, Gay Country By Mike Roselle 3/22 A response to the Karaoke incident. Riding Shotgun With Woody By Mike Roselle 3/24 As Go Further tours the country, Roselle remembers another bus trip with Woody. Days of Whine and Posers By Mike Roselle 3/29 A response to Foreman's piece, Nature's Crisis. |
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