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Freshwater sitter - 11/04/02 & 11/05/02
Wow! Computers in the trees! It took about 15 minutes for the thing to boot up because it had to scan for any errors due to incorrect shut down. It seems to be sucking the life out of my big battery up here. Maybe a third battery would be appropriate…...
Posted: Thu, Nov 7, 2002 1:07am PST
High court allows pepper spray trial
Anti-logging activists swabbed with pepper spray during a celebrated 1997 protest can move forward with a civil rights lawsuit against Humboldt County law enforcement officials, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 5, 2002 1:09pm PST
PL roars into Freshwater, threatening tree-sits, 2 arrest
November 5, 2002 - Humboldt County, California: Supporters are rushing to the scene as Maxxam/Pacific Lumber geared up in Timber Harvest Plan (THP) 01-451 in the Freshwater watershed in Humboldt county, home of several tree-sits, including that of Remedy, who has occupied her tree for over seven months, and Wren, in her sixth month of a sit....
Posted: Tue, Nov 5, 2002 1:03pm PST
ACT NOW TO PROTECT THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST
TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST (Southwest corner of Montana, adjacent to Wyoming and Idaho)...
Posted: Thu, Oct 31, 2002 4:57pm PST
Mattole tree-sits under active assault
Pacific Lumber (PL) has sent employees to remove activists from their tree-top perches, where they are defending trees in an active timber harvest plan (THP)in the Mattole River Watershed....
Posted: Mon, Oct 28, 2002 3:59pm PST
Fire/Logging Bill Still a Threat as New Attacks Loom
Many thanks to everyone for your great work to head off harmful fuel reduction legislation so far this year. Unfortunately, when congress returns after the election, there is still a chance that the House will vote on H.R. 5319, the harmful fire/logging bill being negotiated by Reps. Scott McInnis (R-CO, Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), George Miller (D-CA) and Peter DeFazio (D-OR)....
Posted: Wed, Oct 23, 2002 11:49pm PDT
What is good about the palestinian intifada
sometimes the New yorkers do get it right...
Posted: Mon, Oct 21, 2002 2:13pm PDT
EF! actvist falls in Santa Cruz treesit. Dies on way to hospital.
A young man taking part in an Earth First protest near Mount Madonna County Park died Tuesday night after falling about 100 feet from a redwood tree where he had been living....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2002 3:22pm PDT
Grizzly Shootings Prompt Investigation
WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2002 (ENS) - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) law enforcement agents are investigating the illegal killing of a sow grizzly bear and her yearling female cub....
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 11:23am PDT
Old Growth Sales in Oregon & Forest Fire Fuels Scam Info
1. Learn to ground-truth logged areas: Bark-about to Borg & Barstool II this Sunday, October 13.
2. Help stop yet another bad legislative plan in Congress - your calls needed today!
3. Old growth Hipo (Hilynx) timber sale scheduled for auction November 8.
4. Old growth Guard timber sale scheduled for auction November 8.
5. Poverty rates & Logging volume: is there a connection?
6. Fuels reduction misinformation: the Forest Service's credibility takes another beating.
7. Bark's bum...
Posted: Mon, Oct 7, 2002 10:25am PDT
Arlo Hagler, in memorium
For those of you who knew Arlo Hagler, producer of KMUD's environment show,
volunteer electrician, past President of EPIC, and sound man for so many benefit, I wanted to let you know that he passed away from stomach cancer today, Saturday, October 5th at 1:27 pm surrounded by family in Garberville at his mom's house....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2002 11:38am PDT
Harmful House Deal on Fire Logging Needs to be Stopped
An agreement has been reached between Rep. George Miller (D-CA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Rep. Scott McInnis (R-CO) that can best be described as a chainsaw massacre....
Posted: Fri, Oct 4, 2002 1:09pm PDT
Anaconda lockdown - Maxxam/PL remains defiant in court order
Over 20 non-violent forest activists who stayed out overnight at Fox Camp Gate, in the Mattole Watershed, caught Maxxam/Pacific Lumber red-handed violating Judge John Golden's August 29th stay, which ordered that all logging operations on all company land must cease....
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2002 10:23pm PDT
Judge says no to PL logging
EUREKA -- A Humboldt County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Pacific Lumber Co. must stop logging....
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2002 12:18pm PDT
Eyewitness Report: Officers violate No-Logging Injunction at Mattole action
forest defense news from matole as reported on portland indymedia...
Posted: Sat, Sep 28, 2002 10:50pm PDT
Thirteen Goddesses Take Over Threatened Forest
Thirteen women have ascended into thirteen threatened ancient redwood and Douglas fir trees for thirteen days in protest of MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber's liquidation logging and its ongoing corporate crimes, as well....
Posted: Fri, Sep 27, 2002 9:10am PDT
Tarahumara Blockade Suspends Logging; Violence Feared
Last night, a federal judge from the Tribunal Agrario personally
delivered an order suspending logging in the ejido Coloradas de la
Virgen, ending a day-long blockade of SEMARNAT (Secretariat of the
Environment) by 70 Tarahumara, Tepehuan and mestizos from Coloradas....
Posted: Wed, Sep 25, 2002 1:23pm PDT
Senator Boxers statement on Effective National Forest Fire Prevention Plan
Floor Statement by Senator Barbara Boxer Regarding the Need for an Effective National Forest Fire Prevention Plan...
Posted: Tue, Sep 24, 2002 11:44am PDT