Mattole forest blockade under attack

could you get some stills on the web?

The old Growth in the mattole is being liquidated.

Pod is tied off on car above.

That rope goes up to a pod that held a community member. He is now in jail but he held them off for a day. Thank you. Everyone should come to Northern California and Free-State the Mattole!

Climber Eric extracting the tri-pod sitter from the bottleneck that leads to the Taylor Peak Timber Harvest Plan and the rest of the intact old growth in the Mattole Watershed Maxxam intends to liquidate.

"Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle quietly slipped into a spending bill language exempting his home state of South Dakota from environmental regulations and lawsuits, in order to allow logging in an effort to prevent forest fires," the Washington Times reports. Congressmen from other Western states, which have suffered devastating wildfires, are outraged. "We're trying to rebound from the worst fires in our history--hundreds of homes, thousands of lives shattered--we're on emergency footing in the White Mountains of Arizona trying to rebuild people's lives," Rep. J.D. Hayworth of Arizona tells the Times. "Believe me, if we had the option to take advantage of this for Arizona, you better believe we would have."

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020724-662627.htm

These could be adapted for use in the city. Several going up at once, at several strategic intersections, could tie up traffic, creat a diversion, and who knows what else.