Mike Roselle is one of the most controversial figures in the crusade to protect the environment. Mike has succeeded in stopping a lumber project by spiking trees, struggled with death threats and the car bombing of fellow activist Judi Bari, endured countless days in jail, infiltrated the Nevada Test Site to delay nuclear bomb detonation, helped put a gas mask on Mount Rushmore’s George Washington, and aided actor Woody Harrelson in draping a banner up on the Golden Gate Bridge. Mike is in the thick of things once again, coordinating a series of direct action protests against Mountaintop Removal Mining – a particularly destructive form of coal mining – that is killing the ecology and culture of Appalachia. Mike is visiting Moab while touring with his new book  Tree Spiker, published by St. Martin’s Press, and co-authored with Montana journalist Josh Mahan, who will also be at the event.