As the first day of extraction wore on the extractors had done little more than cut down some of the far away tree sits that we were not defending. Their actions became more aggressive as they realized that we could not be easily tamed. As they became more aggressive we had to take more risks to save our food and water and our safety lines. We could free climb between many trees but with ropes it was relatively safe. Their goal was to cut all of these ropes and make it much more dangerous for us to be in the trees. Also a lack of food and water is never safe.

I was in the sky chair for these photos. I couldn't move around but had a good view. many time our lives were put in danger by lines being cut with people on them, accidentally and purposefully rammed with equipment, and by falling objects that the extractors threw from the trees. I missed getting photos of most of it in a very intense situation.

One extractor we called "Glasses" (not an an insult but just as a description). He seemed to take a sick pleasure in threatening to cut lines with people on them.