Brachyramphus marmoratus defense - 12-17-02

The images were taken on 12-17-02 and developed on 12-18-02. The arrests took place around noon on 12-19-02.

Beautiful pictures.

What is the point of blocking the haul road when no one is hauling? First the logs get cut, then they get hauled out. Once again, you are wasting resources in a useless gesture.

I remember when I was living in Oregon a few years back I had been painting and working in my garage for several days and rather than close it up I just left the door open. Some days later a woman who lived down the street and her lady "friend" who walked the road by my home for exercise almost everyday came over and said she noticed some danged birds that had flown into my garage and then pointed out it had built a nest in there. I made some comment like that really sucked and now I had to clean up this birds nest and get it out of my garage. She had some kind of hissy fit saying this particular species of bird was endangered and that it only built one nest a year and if I destroyed that nest they would die. I just nodded in agreement. So after she left I went over and shoo-ed the birds away, trashed the nest and the eggs, and went on to cleaning out my garage.

Next day or two after I had finished, she and her "friend" came by and said that I had to leave my garage door open so the birds could get in and out. I said, what birds? and she and her "friend" hit the roof. They called the police out to my house and told them all sorts of stuff about these birds, and the police came to me and I said, what bird? So I explained that she was some kinda environmental whacko who had been irrate with me when she saw I was painting the inside of my garage cause she claimed it wasn't "environmentally friendly" and I had told her to mind her own business. The police left. I noticed the birds came back a time or two and couldn't figure out how to get through the garage door. Weren't nothing in there anyway. I figure they died. No harm done.

So, if I was the PL guys, they should just do what I did. Cut the timber and don't worry about it.

I remember a bunch of whacko logger griping about their jobs. When the forest was cut and nothing left to log, I remember saying, what jobs, there's no forest to cut. Why should i care about your livelihood? And so goes the stupid ignorant comments. Fact is, there's no jobs on a dead planet.

Fact is, it grows back.

ok biggiest, if it grows back and is so sustainable, why the whining then? it's such a sustainable industry? why the layoffs? why the mill closures? why the high rate of unemployment? yes, individual trees grow back, that's a given. do silted rivers provide fishing jobs into perpetuity?