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Tom Webb, rest in peace

Portland, Oregon

Tom Webb
1965-2023

The Orlo community is deeply saddened by Tom Webb’s passing. Tom was the mischievous, well-read, and enthusiastic core of Orlo and The Bear Deluxe Magazine. Tom led many of our initiatives from traveling environmental education shows, bicycle-in movies, poetry slams, non-fiction writing contests, uprisings and protests, and, of course, editing dozens of issues of the magazine, known as The Bear Essential, The Bear Deluxe, and The Bear, through its history. Tom raised money, wrote grants, interviewed authors, poets, activists, elected officials, and leaders across the country, dug through submissions, planned events, found artists and musicians, organized the board and volunteers, and connected people interested in exploring environmental issues through creative arts. We will miss Tom greatly.

Please join us for a celebration of life service
1:30 pm, Sunday, January 14, 2024
Castaway Portland, 1900 NW 18th Ave, Portland, OR 97209

Please see an obituary for Tom here: https://memorialsource.com/memorial/thomas-lande-webb

Tom Webb, service

Introduction: A/PART

Portland, Oregon; Issue 38

These pages were designed as a time capsule brimming not only with art, but also with stories of the humans making art over the past year (2020-21). Rather than paint a broad picture, they are meant to reveal bright glimpses of what it looks like to fight, to grieve, to celebrate, and to take up space. This issue grapples with a sense of urgency at the intersections of art, identity, and the environment in an expansive sense; through the words and work of artists, designers, organizers, storytellers, and poets.

Bold type reads BEAR on photo of magazine, standing upright in ashes with new growth surrounding.

(photographed by Mario Gallucci)

A/PART is the latest issue (#38!) of a magazine that started as the Bear Essential and became the Bear Deluxe—one piece of [this] nonprofit, volunteer-run organization, Orlo, with the mission to explore art and the environment on the brink. The Bear has survived many evolutions since 1993. Our aim has always been to provoke and explore. We have been fortunate to find fans among writers and artists, punks and academics, artists and instigators who are interested in issues of the environment and a sense of place as a nexus of culture. A/PART is a labor of love, born from an endeavor to re-vision this project and to consider what our legacy could be…

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Deer in Headlights: Whitetail Populations Soar Across the Midwest

Missouri and Midwest; Winter-Spring 2012-13

by Jason Tobin

Town and Country, Missouri, is the quintessential setting for wealthy suburban living. Situated about 12 miles west of St. Louis, the exclusive enclave has long been considered one of the premier locales for the upper class of St. Louis County. Strict residential zoning and few commercial zones have made intensive development impossible, which has led to Town and Country maintaining much of its pastoral vibe. Not to mention its elite status. According to the City Data website, as of 2009, the average home was worth $840,811 and 56.5 percent of Town and Country students attended private school.

Town and Country was first incorporated as a village in 1950 and was initially a farming community before transitioning to a high-end, low-density suburb. The farms have disappeared and been replaced with white picket fences, but over time the topographic make-up has remained unchanged. An abundance of open space still exists. All this room has created ideal grazing lands for whitetailed deer. Considering humans are the only natural predator left in the area, the deer population began to skyrocket in the 1980s.

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