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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: Happygal

I know!
"Mother Nature annoyed by evirotwits, takes matters into her own branch."


41 posted on 07/21/2004 6:11:21 AM PDT by Darksheare (Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
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To: Feckless
What about the poor tree?

Unfortunately once a tree has tasted human blood it must be destroyed.

42 posted on 07/21/2004 6:12:34 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." W. B. Yeats)
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To: rrrod

It got in the way.
It needed to be elimnated, it knew too much.


43 posted on 07/21/2004 6:12:53 AM PDT by Darksheare (Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
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To: Core_Conservative

Yup, should have sprayed for bores.


44 posted on 07/21/2004 6:13:15 AM PDT by katykelly
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To: Darksheare

sad ....terrible waste of a good hammock


45 posted on 07/21/2004 6:14:15 AM PDT by rrrod
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To: veronica

He wanted to be one with the tree. He got his wish.


46 posted on 07/21/2004 6:15:04 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Kerry Lied. Soldiers Died.)
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To: veronica

"You have failed me for the last time." -- Gaia


47 posted on 07/21/2004 6:20:11 AM PDT by Sloth (We have to support RINOs like Specter; their states are too liberal to elect someone like Santorum.)
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To: veronica

The rest of the trees in the country need to take a lesson from this one!

Good work tree!


48 posted on 07/21/2004 6:25:26 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: RedBloodedAmerican
Will he be buried in a pine box, or a plastic one?

Whew... now I don't have to risk throwing out my insensitive question of the day.
49 posted on 07/21/2004 6:25:41 AM PDT by kenth
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To: veronica

Well, if you live by the tree, you die by the tree.


50 posted on 07/21/2004 6:25:56 AM PDT by wizr
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To: BartMan1; Nailbiter

... from the 'you can't make this sh!t up' file...


51 posted on 07/21/2004 6:28:57 AM PDT by IncPen (Proud member of the Half Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
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To: veronica

You live by the tree; you die by the tree.


52 posted on 07/21/2004 6:30:10 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: asgardshill

LOL


53 posted on 07/21/2004 6:31:56 AM PDT by Petronski (Nobody "inadvertently" takes sensitive docs in their pants.)
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To: wizr

Sorry! Didn't read the other comments first.


54 posted on 07/21/2004 6:32:25 AM PDT by wizr
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To: 2Jedismom; HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed; g'nad; JenB; RosieCotton; Ramius; ecurbh

Tulsa Ents 1, Orcs 0 ping...


55 posted on 07/21/2004 6:33:07 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (I'm going on vacation in 9 days...)
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To: Jonah Hex

I knew homosexual marriage would take things too far.


56 posted on 07/21/2004 6:35:18 AM PDT by bmwcyle (<a href="http://www.johnkerry.com/" target="_blank">miserable failure)
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To: veronica

What are the odds of this happening and happening to a tree-hugger? Life is weird.


57 posted on 07/21/2004 6:36:40 AM PDT by tiki
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To: Corin Stormhands

Ha ha ha!!!


58 posted on 07/21/2004 6:38:48 AM PDT by 2Jedismom (Expect me when you see me!)
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To: rrrod

Yes, but for a good cause.
It shall be remembered as a hero, valiantly giving up it's life to assist in taking down an envirotwit lawyer.


59 posted on 07/21/2004 6:40:55 AM PDT by Darksheare (Show compassion, club a baby troll today!)
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To: veronica
What a tragedy...


60 posted on 07/21/2004 6:41:57 AM PDT by Jaxter ("Guys like John Kerry spit on guys like me. I've been waiting 33 years to spit back.")
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