12/19: Four non-violent forest activists were arrested while protesting Maxxam/Palco's insistence to cut their largest stand of residual old growth. This arrest occurred in conjunction with two other activists who had suspended themselves from a bridge in 'pods' over grizzly creek in the Van Duzen watershed. All four protesters are now free, with the last being bailed out on Christmas eve. Protestors accuse Maxxam/Palco for engaging in unsustainable logging practices; believing that once all of the big trees have been liquidated; and the community's land and rivers wasted, the out-of-state owner of Maxxam will take the money and run.