Environmental News, Opinion, and Art                                                                 March 2007

Finding Hope In A New Climate
By Lance Olsen   3/1
Expect Glacier's species to move to Jasper
with the coming climate migrations.
Cooridors will be essential for their survival.

Dead's Not Always Dead
By Nathaniel Hoffman   3/1
Idaho votes to license elk farms,
which will lead to more oversight.
But watered-down penalties persist.

Judi's Work and
Warnings Prove True
By Mike Roselle   3/2
In memory of the 10 years without
Judi's good work, and on her inspiration
for others to carry on. Judi was a friend of the redwood.
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The Time Is Now To
Protect The Rockies
By Will Boyd  3/6
The push is on for NREPA
with the new batch of Democrats.

A Thousand Miles of Bad River
By Mike Roselle   3/6
Lowbagger will shove off on a 1,000-mile float
to document the people and places of the
threatened Green and Colorado River systems.
Find out how you can help.

13 Arrested Demand
Clean Marsh Fork Elementary
By Sarah Haltom  3/20
One of coal's dirtiest secrets is protested
at the W.V. Gov.'s office.

Cancer: The Hidden
Cost of Coal
By Earthjustice  3/20
New EPA Risk Assessment
finds high cancer risk from coal ash
and a danger to water supplies.

The Oregon Example:
Statewide Planning Works
By George Wuerthner  3/20
Oregon got rid of subdivisions years ago.
It's been good for the land and the economy.


A Black Landscape Is
A Beautiful Landscape
By Rachel Simons  3/25
When do you let it burn?
Some thoughts from a wildland firefighter.


Great Bear Wilderness Deal
Dubbed Release Disaster
By Chris Genovali  3/26
While the media made it sound like
the green victory of the century,
the hype outweighed habitat protection.

How Climate Change
Violates Inuit Rights
By Sheila Watt-Cloutier  3/27
A 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee
speaks of how the ice where she lives
and hunts is falling into the sea.

New Penn Football Road
To Cut In State's Largest Forest
By Alan Gregory  3/27
The rub is this road can be built in a roaded,
valley area. It's one of many poorly planned
PennDOT projects.

the natural guard
By Dennis Fritzinger  3/27
The future will be different.
If you want it to be.A poem on defending nature
to defend one's self from nature.
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