The Natural Guard - Tree-Sit clarification

Clarification:

Many thanks to Duff for posting the Natural Guard Call to Action (Tree-sit Uprising in Humboldt County) concerning the imminent cutting of the biggest unprotected trees in the world by Pacific Lumber Company. The action to save these trees is continuing and about a dozen kids are now living in the sky- in tree sits ranging from 120' to 220' above the ground. Think of it as bearing witness, as communion in a sacred place, as a vision quest. Everyone connected with the effort comes back transformed. But one inference of the previous posting needs to be corrected. This Call to Action is from the new all-volunteer group the Natural Guard, which is unaffiliated with any group. We work with anyone interested in stopping the destruction of ancient forests in any part of the world. But we are not connected to North Coast Earth First!, the Animal Welfare Institute, or any other group. The idea of the Natural Guard is that we band together people of like mind in their communities to peacefully but tenaciously protect life on Earth, to be called up when necessary from the "reserves." We organized the first brigade in the San Juan Islands off Washington and chose as one of our first efforts to help out saving the ancient redwoods in Humboldt County, one of the longest running environmental battles in the United States.

We hope that the concept of the Natural Guard will spread. Our motto is to fight like water. Following this image, the Natural Guard itself has no 501-C3 government number, no corporate identification, no assets, no officers. Most people drawn to this effort have other jobs that sustain them. Mine is international coordinator of the Animal Welfare Institute. I work protecting marine mammals by attending meetings of the International Whaling Commission, the Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species, and by concentrating on such threats as the Navy's Low Frequency Active Sonar, the captivity industry and the destruction of marine mammals by the fishing industry. But for many years I worked as a consulting arborist and climbed trees for a living. I owe them everything. Therefore I am personally compelled to resist the destruction of the last of California's natural cathedrals. I am grateful for AWI for giving me the time off to band together with other Natural Guardians to teach tree climbing and backwoods skills to those citizens moved to protect these ancient trees. There is nothing on Earth quite like them. But it would be unfair to my colleagues that have spent lots of their own time and resources on this effort, to misidentify this new group as anything but totally independent. Thanks for the space for the correction. See you in the trees. Ben White 360-378-8755