Earth First! Action Rendezous Aug 27-30, 2004 - Get involved

Come to the Earth First! ACTION Rendezvous on Aug 27-30.

Come and give a training, help plan an action, or find out how to get
involved in Biscuit Forest Defense at the Earth First! ACTION Rendezvous.
We will be camping in the breathtaking Klamath-Siskiyou mountains within
the
largest public timber sale of all time, the Biscuit Salvage Sale.
See this amazing fire touched forest, learn about threats to the greater
region, and learn or share the skills to defend Cascadia.

Activities will include singing, dancing, playing, timber sale monitoring,
campaign and tactic discussions, action planning, and many inspiring
trainings and activities.

Interested in coming or helping, call Cascadia Earth First!...get involved
and help us to save the Biscuit Matrix.
Email ef at cascadiarising.org

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The Bush Administration's Biscuit Fire "Preferred Alternative" is an Extreme Answer to a Natural Event

Largest Forest Service Timber Sale in Modern Times:

* Logs 370 Million Board Feet of trees on about 19,500 acres (30.41 sq. miles) of National Forest.
* Over 70,000 log trucks would still be needed to haul the trees to the mills. Positioned end-to-end, they would almost stretch along the Pacific Coast from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.

Politics push the Envelope:

* The Siskiyou National Forest went from a reasonable proposal to an extreme roadless area logging plan after a Logging Study financed by Douglas County Commissioners (Oregon) was submitted to the Forest Service.
* The Forest Service took the unprecedented step of accepting this "old school" log, plant and spray plan as new information, slowing the time-sensitive DEIS process by months.

Massive attack on Northwest Forest Plan's Old Growth Reserves

* Logs about 6,303 acres (173 million Board Feet) from Late-Successional Reserves which are designated for the protection of old-growth forests, wildlife habitat and biological diversity.
* A 36,000 acre study area under the guise of a scientific experiment ("Logging for Learning" research project).