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Environmentalist dies (Crushed by a tree...)
NEWSOK.com ^ | 7-21-04

Posted on 07/21/2004 5:23:34 AM PDT by veronica

TULSA - Blake Champlin, a Tulsa lawyer and environmental activist, died Monday at his home when a tree supporting a hammock fell and crushed him.

Champlin, 45, died instantly, said Gerald Hilsher, an attorney with Shipley & Kellogg, Champlin's former law firm.

Champlin was a member of Sierra Club and Save the Illinois River, and the director of Keep Tulsa Beautiful. He also pushed for an agreement between Oklahoma and Arkansas on phosphorus limits in northeast Oklahoma waters, Hilsher said.

Champlin was a past director of the Oklahoma Society of Environmental Professionals and a past chairman of the Environmental Law Section of the Oklahoma Bar Association.

He was a featured speaker at numerous environmental seminars throughout the region and represented many individuals in northeast Oklahoma who sued poultry companies for alleged water and air pollution, specifically around the Grand Lake area.

Champlin became a named-partner of Shipley, Jennings & Champlin and, in 2002, he joined the Tulsa law firm of Boone, Smith, Davis, Hurst & Dickman, where he headed their environmental law department.

A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Asbury United Methodist Church in Tulsa.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: decadentsociety; environment; environmentalist; godswrath; idolworshipping; ironicdeath; irony; mothereearth; oops; secularhumanism; sierraclub; squish; worshipthecreation; wrathofgod
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To: veronica

If a tree falls on an envirowhacko in the woods, will they make a grunt?


21 posted on 07/21/2004 5:38:55 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: martin_fierro

To add to the irony, he was reading Shakespeare.


22 posted on 07/21/2004 5:40:54 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (God Bless Our Troops!!)
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To: veronica

What more can be said - except that he should have used some pesticides on the tree - a long time ago.


23 posted on 07/21/2004 5:41:03 AM PDT by Core_Conservative (Screw ‘moderates.’ Only things found in the middle of the road are yellow lines and road kill!)
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To: martin_fierro
LOL!

He killed the tree! I'd like to see a pic of him to check out his girth.

Will he be buried in a pine box, or a plastic one? Can't be cremated, that would pollute the environment.

And what about the tree? Prayers being said for the little saplings, that no more may meet an untimely death at the hands (or butt) of these murderers.
24 posted on 07/21/2004 5:41:27 AM PDT by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: Darksheare

Gee, even "Mother Nature" thinks they need to
be "sat on". I bet they still won't believe "she"
is big enough to take care of "herself".


25 posted on 07/21/2004 5:42:24 AM PDT by Darkchylde (Beware: An army of angry flies are descending upon a soup near you.)
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To: veronica

Oops...

26 posted on 07/21/2004 5:44:25 AM PDT by Jonah Hex (Only 5 cents a troll? Must be too many of the varmints around here...)
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To: new cruelty
This kind of reminds me of that guy that was mauled by a bear last year.

Oh, that one's a classic.

27 posted on 07/21/2004 5:44:58 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Tiajunna customes stuned my beeber)
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To: veronica
Blake's last thoughts:
"You know, old tree old buddy, you've supported my rustic hammock lo these many years and though people think you're too old, too diseased to support even the weight of your mighty limbs; I just couldn't bear the thoug.....YE GODS!!!!"
28 posted on 07/21/2004 5:46:21 AM PDT by finnigan2
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To: martin_fierro

That one had me in tears. This one, I giggled, then felt a little bad about it, then giggled some more.


29 posted on 07/21/2004 5:47:31 AM PDT by new cruelty
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To: JennysCool; gatorbait; The Scourge of Yazid; Darksheare

Oh man!
You can't make this stuff up!
Too funny!


30 posted on 07/21/2004 5:48:24 AM PDT by Happygal (Kerry has a chin that could chop cabbage in a glass!)
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To: veronica
Blake Champlin, a Tulsa lawyer and environmental activist, died Monday at his home when a tree supporting a hammock fell and crushed him.

WHAT????

This brute had virtually enslaved this tree, forcing it to bear his weight until it fell to the ground and died from the strain?

This is OUTRAGEOUS! I bet if you looked in his house, he even had furniture made of WOOD!

What an evil, evil man...

31 posted on 07/21/2004 5:52:37 AM PDT by Kenton ("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
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To: veronica

The sad result of tree abuse.


32 posted on 07/21/2004 5:52:52 AM PDT by hgro
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To: veronica

Well....live by the tree....die by the tree.....


33 posted on 07/21/2004 5:55:31 AM PDT by smiley
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To: Thane_Banquo

Especially after the bears got the bear activist recently.


34 posted on 07/21/2004 5:58:16 AM PDT by expatpat
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Living on Tulsa Time!!


35 posted on 07/21/2004 5:58:43 AM PDT by Proverbs 3-5
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To: veronica
a Tulsa lawyer and environmental activist

I call that a twofer.

36 posted on 07/21/2004 6:04:40 AM PDT by Ben Chad
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To: veronica
This is not the first time this has happened. Here's an article I saved from a few years ago.
Logging Protester Killed by Tree

FORTUNA, Calif. (AP) -- Officials of a logging company and an environmental group fighting its work agreed it was an accident that a protester was killed by a falling tree.

David Chain, 24, a member of Earth First!, was killed Thursday at a remote redwood logging site as he and others tried to dissuade tree fellers.

Earth First! had staged a 12-day protest against the logging of an ancient redwood stand along Grizzly Creek, in a ravine near the mill town of Fortuna, about 300 miles north of San Francisco.

Eight members were arrested Wednesday on trespassing charges. Thursday was the first day the group engaged in the more aggressive tactic they call "cat and mouse," putting their bodies in harm's way.

Pacific Lumber President John Campbell said the logging crew did not see anybody in the area and had no idea Chain, who was known as "Gypsy" by environmentalists, was standing nearby.

"They felled a tree and apparently heard some yelling, and then the feller was cutting the tree into segments when the body was found under a limb," Campbell said. He added that sheriff's investigators said Chain's death was "an unfortunate accident," and that the company would conduct its own investigation of the incident.

Earth First! spokesman Josh Brown agreed.

"We have no details and we're not assigning blame to the feller or Pacific Lumber Company or anybody," he said. "It's just a complete tragedy."

The protesters say the logging, on land adjacent to a "lesser cathedral" of centuries-old redwoods purchased under the $495 million Headwaters Agreement, is destroying the protected habitat of the marbled murrelet, an endangered sea bird that nests in the tops of the majestic trees.

The state-federal agreement would turn about 7,500 acres of Pacific Lumber forest, including 3,000 acres of old-growth redwoods, into a public preserve. Environmentalists have protested the accord, saying it should include protections for the rest of the 60,000-acre Headwaters Forest Complex.


37 posted on 07/21/2004 6:06:48 AM PDT by Moonman62
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To: Darkchylde

And it was a 'two fer' deal too!
A lawyer AND envirotwit!
*chuckle*
Gotta love it.


38 posted on 07/21/2004 6:07:41 AM PDT by Darksheare (Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
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To: Darksheare

to bad about the hammock


39 posted on 07/21/2004 6:10:14 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: martin_fierro
Wow. A two-fer.

LOL! I was all ready with the I-didn't-agree-with-him-but it's-a-shame-he-was-killed line.

Then I noticed the 'L' word.

40 posted on 07/21/2004 6:11:11 AM PDT by MamaTexan (Liberals are just communists in metro-sexual clothing)
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