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four non-violent protestors arrested
four treesitters arrested in road blockade defending ancient trees....
Posted: Sat, Dec 21, 2002 3:40am PST
Brachyramphus marmoratus defense - 12-17-02
Pacific Lumber is presently destroying endangered Marbled Murrelet Habitat....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2002 1:39am PST
How you can help CascadiaSummer
Eco-defense and Social Justice activists are putting a
call out across the world to invite folks out to Cascadia
to join us in a summer of resistance!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2002 7:39pm PST
Protester Hangs From Bridge To Block Logging Road - 12/17/02
The road providing access to Maxxam/Pacific Lumber Timber Harvest Plan 00-439 in Grizzly Creek area near Grizzly Creek State Park in Humboldt county has been blockaded by a protester dangling from a bridge by a rope....
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2002 7:55pm PST
tree-sits ride out storms 12/17 release
Young people sitting high up in old growth trees trying to save them from Pacific Lumber/Maxxam's saws are riding out the latest storms to hit the California coast from a particularly precarious perch....
Posted: Tue, Dec 17, 2002 3:35pm PST
Time is running out
20 Tree sits, lawsuits and we still are losing the forest...
Posted: Sun, Dec 15, 2002 12:50pm PST
CASCADIA SUMMER 2003 CALL TO ACTION
In light of the all out war being currently waged on our public forests and environmental protections by George W. Bush and the timber industry, forest defenders throughout the mountains of Oregon, Northern California and Southern Washington are organizing a campaign during the upcoming summer of 2003. We are issuing a call to action to all concerned individuals and organizations to request their aid during the upcoming summer months....
Posted: Sun, Dec 15, 2002 5:10am PST
ChevronTexaco: Ecuador's Black Plague (video/x-pn-realvideo 30.6MB)
ChevronTexaco: Ecuador's Black Plague, a new video from Amazon Watch, premiered at the "Our People are Dying!" evening with Amazonian leaders and community activists confronting ChevronTexaco in the new International Campaign to get ChevronTexaco to CLEAN UP AND PAY UP!...
Posted: Fri, Dec 13, 2002 10:50pm PST
Marbled Murrelet
The marbled murrelet is on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species List in the southern portion of its range (Washington, Oregon and California). British Columbia lists them as Threatened. California and Oregon list marbled murrelets as critically imperiled. Washington lists them as rare or uncommon....
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 11:18pm PST
PL/Maxxam Assaults prime Marbled Murrelet Habitat
Pacific Lumber Chain Saws Launch Assault On Prime Marbled Murrelet Habitat
More Tree Sits Go Up, Protests are Launched, $200,000 bail is Vacated...
Posted: Wed, Dec 11, 2002 3:24pm PST
Bears Going Bald
Biologists say more than half the black bears living in Marion County, Fla., forests have an illness that makes them bald....
Posted: Tue, Dec 10, 2002 8:25pm PST
ATTY. J. TONY SERRA TO REPRESENT FOREST DEFENDER
Non-violent protesters, Abstract Jane Marsh and Jamie LeRoy Harris, have been in jail for almost 3 weeks with a combined bail of $255,000 since they were brutally arrested trying to protect old growth Redwood and Doug Fir forests....
Posted: Sat, Dec 7, 2002 11:16pm PST
Forest News Update - 12/03/02
1) Tree Sit Rally
2) Grizzly Creek Area Expecting New Logging
3) Legal Update on Forest Defenders...
Posted: Tue, Dec 3, 2002 11:27pm PST
JUDGE EXEMPTS PACIFIC LUMBER LOGGING PLANS FROM STOP ORDER
In a Humboldt county Superior Court ruling that seemed to contradict his earlier statements, Judge John Golden acted on a motion filed by Pacific Lumber (PL) in October asking him to vacate the court-ordered stay on PL logging operations issued on Aug. 29....
Posted: Wed, Nov 27, 2002 5:01pm PST
Northcoast Forest Update : 11/26/02
1 -- Judge exempts PL logging plans from stop order; contempt hearing still on
2 -- Hunger strike continues--call the Governor!
3 -- Tree sits in "Demonstration Forest"
4 -- 6 month anniversary rally for tree-sitter Wren on Dec. 8...
Posted: Tue, Nov 26, 2002 11:30pm PST
12/8 Rally-Ceremony for Wren's 200th day in Redwood
Wren, who has been sitting in a giant redwood named Eversteen for over six
months, is about to mark her 200th day without touching ground....
Posted: Mon, Nov 25, 2002 4:35pm PST
Gaia Treesit in the Mattole
Gaia still stands and refuses to be killed, she has enlisted the help of a few kind souls who continue to stand with her, allowing her and the others on that hill in the mattole to dance their spiral dance and to celebrate life....
Posted: Fri, Nov 22, 2002 9:49pm PST
Maxxam/PL in contempt of Court
1 - Pacific Lumber in Contempt of Court!
2 - Day 43 for Sue Moloney's Fast: Hear her on KPFA this week!
3 - Loggers Assault Protesters at Demonstration Forest...
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2002 5:59pm PST
Violence this weekend as tree-sitters are removed
Action and violence in the hills of Humboldt Co., courtesy of Maxxam/PL/Lewis Logging, once again....
Posted: Tue, Nov 19, 2002 1:54pm PST