THE BEAR DELUXE #25
Content for this issue will be posted on an ongoing basis

Highlights of the summer issue include: feature articles on mining coltan
in the Congo and rebuilding the wetlands in the gulf coast. Literary
sampling include illustrated prose by Robert Cooperman and poetry by by
Stephen Malin and Phil Grui. Visual art and design highlights include a
graphic novel illustrated by Lukas Ketner and illustration by Kristian
Olson, Ben Schlitter, Damon Sneed, Fed Hanzelin, Karl Huber.
The Bear Deluxe Magazine is made possible in 2007 in part by the Alice C.
Tyler Perpetual Trust, The Kinsman Foundation, the Regional Arts & Culture
Council, and the Oregon Arts Commission, supported by the National Endowment
for the Arts, a federal agency.

For visual art work, interviews and writer contacts, email bear@orlo.org.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Front of the Book
 Letters, updates, Court Ruling: benched!,Siting Biodiesel, email chain, illustration
Features
 Sound Logging
Federal agencies listen to nature
by Melissa Paugh
Apocalypse Found
Coltan, cell phones and crisis in the Congo
by Casey Bush and Joshua Seeds
Feet on the Ground - Full Interview
Make Wetlands Not War!
A coalition of the willing looks toward Gulf Coast restoration; America doesn't
by Steven Babcock
Double-Scapes
Lead Pencil Studio refracts views of built environments
by Molly Cooney-Mesker
Spilling the Ink
Editors at Outside and Bitch share their magazine perspectives
by Molly Cooney-Mesker and Mateo Hoke
Lonesome Twilight
by Robert Cooperman
Opinion
by Lolly Merrell, Amy Roe, Steven Babcock, Matt Love
Reviews
 Three Books
by Casey Bush and Evelyn Sharen
Resource Page
 Farming by the Square Foot
Resources for the backyard micro-agricultalist
Orlo
 Updates
Poetry
 Stephen Malin
Phil Gruis
Independant Art
 Lukas Ketner
Damon Sneed - www.damonsneed.com/
Karl Huber - www.dinotreker.com/huber.html
Kristian Olson - www.kristianolson.com/
Fred Hanzelin
Jon Ford
Ben Schlitter - www.benschlitter.com/
Andy Singer - www.andysinger.com/