Bart Koehler, director of the Southeast Alaska
Conservation Council and a co-founder of Earth First!, always took
time out from fighting for environmental issues to sing about them.
Now he and his Coyote Angels band have released a CD featuring
songs about the wild life of the West. Some, dedicated to green
greats such as Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey and John Muir, tackle
hunters who machine-gun wolves from airplanes in Alaska, the
tensions between ranchers and environmentalists in Wyoming and our
near-extinction of buffalo on the Plains. But the album also
includes lighthearted and funny tunes, as well as songs like Soul
of Yellowstone and Roll on Tuolumne that simply celebrate beautiful
places in the West. Wyoming writer Chip Rawlins plays the lead
guitar, Koehler wrote most every song and everybody howls. Contact
Bart Koehler to buy a CD or tape at Coyote Raven Music, P.O. Box
21106, Juneau, AK 99802 (907/780-4964).

*Katie
Fesus

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Coyote Angels

by Katie Fesus, High Country News
December 9, 1996

<h1>Coyote Angels</h1> <p class="byline">by Katie Fesus, High Country News <br />December 9, 1996</p> <br /> <!-- RTT removed image (47108) --> <p> Bart Koehler, director of the Southeast Alaska<br /> Conservation Council and a co-founder of Earth First!, always took<br /> time out from fighting for environmental issues to sing about them.<br /> Now he and his Coyote Angels band have released a CD featuring<br /> songs about the wild life of the West. Some, dedicated to green<br /> greats such as Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey and John Muir, tackle<br /> hunters who machine-gun wolves from airplanes in Alaska, the<br /> tensions between ranchers and environmentalists in Wyoming and our<br /> near-extinction of buffalo on the Plains. But the album also<br /> includes lighthearted and funny tunes, as well as songs like Soul<br /> of Yellowstone and Roll on Tuolumne that simply celebrate beautiful<br /> places in the West. Wyoming writer Chip Rawlins plays the lead<br /> guitar, Koehler wrote most every song and everybody howls. Contact<br /> Bart Koehler to buy a CD or tape at Coyote Raven Music, P.O. Box<br /> 21106, Juneau, AK 99802 (907/780-4964). <BR></p> <p> *Katie<br /> Fesus<BR></p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=188607">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">Coyote Angels</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-95/coyote-angels/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=123802&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-95/coyote-angels/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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