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Mattole Forest Defenders Confront the Sherrifs Department in Defense of the Mattole...
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2001 12:07am PDT
Police and PL/Maxxam security invade freestate....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2001 1:51pm PDT
Banner reading LOCAL CONTROL OF THE MATTOLE: SCRAM MAXXAM--STOP HCP SCAM!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2001 9:57pm PST
NEW TREESIT AND BANNER AT RATTLESNAKE CREEK.
100 DAYS OF BLOCKADE AND NO LOGGING IN THE MATTOLE...
Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2001 7:43pm PST
This update is for Pacific Lumber/Maxxam logging protests, rallies and Direct Actions in Humboldt County....
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2001 2:47pm PST
On Monday, February 5, a Forest Defender is picked off by Humboldt County Sheriffs. The activist was defending Douglas Fir from logging by placing himself in the fall zone....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2001 12:45am PST
Cops targeted people on state park public property, asked to see their ID and ran checks for outstanding warrants. These activist were parked along a park road near where THP 309 was being logged on PL property some 200 feet from the road....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 6:19pm PST
Naomi Wagner, a long time Northern California resident and activist, is escorted by a cop to a waiting van. Naomi was arrested Wednesday, Feb 7, while drawing cops away from fall zone in the Mattole....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 6:07pm PST
Humboldt County Sheriff accompany a logger into THP 309 in the Mattole...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 5:59pm PST
Some of 30 plus local Mattole residents and activists keep warm while waiting for loggers to arrive....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 5:53pm PST
Non-violent peaceful activist continue to resist destructive logging in the Mattole....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 5:38pm PST
Early this morning, 02/07/01, Mattole residents and the Mattole Forest Defenders confronted Maxxam/Pacific Lumber logging crews who arrived to continue clearcutting old-growth Douglas Fir in Timber Harvest Plan (THP) 1-00-309 on Rattlesnake Creek within the Mattole watershed....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2001 12:18am PST
Blockade continues to hold at record 9 weeks....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 6:42pm PST
Forest Defenders enjoy a warm campfire at the Dragon lockdown....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 6:29pm PST
The Wall blockade along MAXXAM/Pacific Lumber logging road leading to threatened ancient forest....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 6:20pm PST
Forest Defender resupplies another activist occupying The Spatula....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2001 6:06pm PST
Total time 20:45. Hear the voices of the Mattole Forest Defenders, as they introduce themselves and describe the struggle to defend some of the last of the ancient Douglas Fir forests from plunder by Maxxam/ Pacific Lumber Company. The activists describe the area, confrontations with police and logging crews, pepper spray and arrests, and the complex blockades they have built twelve miles into PL company land to keep the trees standing, with contact information at the end. Community and Micro...
Posted: Thu, Jan 25, 2001 2:07pm PST
An event to call attention to the situation on Rainbow Ridge in the Mattole Valley will take place at the California Department of Forestry (CDF) Offices in Fortuna on Thursday, January 25th....
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2001 1:03pm PST
An event to call attention to the situation on Rainbow Ridge in
the Mattole Valley will take place at the California Department of
Forestry (CDF) Offices in Fortuna on Thursday, January 25th....
Posted: Tue, Jan 23, 2001 8:28pm PST