[UPDATE 11:22 a.m.] Three Arrested on Monument Ridge After a Structure Erected Overnight to Block Loggers; Ongoing Arrests as Deputies Attempt to Remove One From Tower
A shaken protester who preferred to be anonymous said that two Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies “violently arrested three people…with hardly any warning….They basically attacked the crowd.”
A Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson, Samantha Karges, confirmed that around 3:42 a.m., three protesters were taken into custody “for trespassing, resisting arrest and impeding traffic.” More deputies eventually showed up. Currently, as of 8:30 a.m., a deputy in a cherry picker is being used to extract a protesterKarges explained,
Additional protestors have continued to arrive throughout the morning. Resources from the Humboldt County Correctional Facility are on scene, in preparation for possible additional arrests.
Humboldt County Public Works has deployed a boom truck to assist in lowering the ladder attached to the gate to safely take the protestor into custody. They are still working to do that at this point.
We currently have ten units on scene, which includes one correctional transport deputy.
A livestream shows the arrival of law enforcement and the arrest of the livestreamer, who goes by Mike Gamms on Facebook, at 5 p.m.
The attempt to remove the podsitter was being livestreamed at https://www.instagram.com/blockade.babes/ [Note: Only available on a phone by clicking the circular photo on the left]
An activist who preferred to be referred to only as Bob, described the ongoing scene. He said, “Two sheriff’s [deputies] have some sort of climbing harnesses. Now the sheriff [deputy] is getting into the cherry picker to maybe pull the person out at the top of the ladder. Cherry picker operator is raising it.”
UPDATE 9:02 a.m.: Rook,The protester atop the ladder, has been arrested. Samantha Karges, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s spokesperson, wrote, “I just received word that the protestor on the ladder has also been taken into custody as of 8:52 a.m. I don’t have any identifying information yet.”
UPDATE 9:51 a.m.: According to Bob, one of the protesters we quoted above, most of the activists have departed from Monument Gate, there are people still there though. He told us, “When we left, there were maybe still three sheriff vehicles, two HRC security and four LEAR personnel. But we have all left.”
UPDATE 11:22 a.m.: According to Samantha Karges, “Isabel Xochitl Osheroff, 24, of Berkeley, CA…was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on misdemeanor charges of trespassing and has since been released on O.R.”
Earlier Chapters:
- Two Protestors Arrested at Rainbow Ridge Logging Blockade
- Protesters Say They Are Locking to Gate to Stop Logging After Humboldt Redwoods Company Removed Tripod Sitter
- Man Protesting Logging Rainbow Ridge Describes Ordeal
- Demonstrators Picketed Humboldt Redwoods Company Yesterday in Hopes of Stopping Logging Planned for the Rainbow Ridge Area
- Truckers and Protesters Concerned About Plans to Log Rainbow Ridge Clashed Near Scotia Mill Yesterday
- Sheriff’s Office Warns Logging Protesters Near Rainbow Ridge This Morning
- Timber Fallers on Rainbow Ridge, Protesters Again at Monument Gate
- ‘Elders Defend Elders,’ Say Activists as Four Arrested This Morning Trying to Stop Logging on Rainbow Ridge
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No compromise, assholes! Don’t the owners of the gap have enough $$$$$? How about somebody comes to YOUR neighborhood and dumps a bunch of roundup everywhere and leave a standing dead forest to burn your house? Would you like that so some rich people can get richer? WTF?
Don’t badmouth capitalism or you will end up in the gulag.
You mean crony capitalism, which is the equivalent of regular socialism where the govt takes in most of the profits and ‘promises’ to redistribute it fairly, only to discover that ‘fairly’ to a power trippin socialist means ‘fairly distributed to his cronies and family’ in order to keep the people hungry for more ‘socialism’.
Capitalism – free market, equal opportunity.
Socialism – you make it, we take it.
Crony either one- you make it, we take it. We take it, we keep it.
It looks to me that they got a pretty good gate up there if you could put some extra locks on it it might be helpful do not attempt to tamper with this device made in North Korea warning not to be sold in the United States where freedom is only a dream behind iron bars
You know G7, if someone came to your land and tried to tell you hat to do with it you’d scream bloody murder [edit]. Then again you probably don’t own anything!
Aren’t a substantial fraction of articles on this site all about the county,state and federal governments telling private property owners what they can and cant do with their private land? Hypocrites much?
The government is hypocritical if it means it gets to make money.
People who cry property rights usually change their tune quick when somebody wants to use their property for something like a junkyard or a porn shop (or an Indian Casino) next door to theirs. Suddenly property rights get “relative” real fast.
Here’s my two cents. There’s too many people on this planet depleteing it’s natural resources. I am guilty, and so are you. I’m guessing these protesters wipe there ass with toilet paper (I hope) and drove up that mountain in fossil fuel burning cars. My hat is actually off to them…..but the hypocrisy is evident. Want to save the trees and the planet? Stop saving humans.
Now that “Stop saving humans” is wildly hypocritical (in the nicest way possible) coming from someone who does what you do.
Lost Coast EMP; it’s been a long going things that logger say wiping your ass with toilet paper owl are whatever and protecting Forest is somehow a relevant argument it seems that most loggers and those protecting the industry suck the industry’s ass clean no need for toilet paper. They must relate to the asshole in themselves with such slogans
One of the largest semi intact old growth Forest in California
When we are down to less than 10% probably less than 3% old growth Douglas fir we should say enough is enough this habitat is thousands of years old and who knows how old some of its residents and Generations have been living in there Majestic Giants don’t let them fall to the blades of greed toilet paper is a waste product of the Timber industry made out of Chip wood and turned to Pulp we don’t need old growth to make toilet paper
I also have been a long time believer that we always have the right amount of people on the planet to clean it up its a Giant job but if everybody is doing right thing that might make it easier with numbers
Dear Sam, if I were creating problems for my neighbors with runoff and fire corridors, I’d hope someone would help me realize that I’m an idiot.
Thanks for your input!
It has been said that Horowitz and Emerson created, along with Cherney, Earth first. But it cannot be proven. It is believed they did this to stop all logging on forest service land, but keeping the logging going on private land, owned by Maxxam and others. The result was the price of timber went way up, because it cut out it’s competition. Now, just recently, the Trump administration passed a couple bills which prevent law suits against the forest service. This means that earth First, the Center for Biological Diversity, and many others, may not sue to stop the forest service from selling timber harvest plans, or allowing them to go through. So now, according to a few logging truck drivers, and local timber fallers, that logging is starting back up on forest service land. Which is a good thing. This little song is from the late 80’s from our old local newspaper. It is sung to the tune of Davey Crockett.
[edit: Hey, using the female gender as a pejorative is not flying here.]
How is there being no control over cutting on public lands a good thing? There are and have to be better reasons than money. To me if the Forrest service is caring for the land it is public land because it is being managed by tax money. We the people should have some say over what happens to these lands including the right to sue over misuse.
Dont nobody panic what ever it may be the tree’s will grow back thats what tree’s do even if it take 2000 years
~well then, we can all relax, keep eyes wide shut, right up until you take that last breath. Oh oops – didn’t notice the industrial military complex spreading death dumps in the sky for the last 70 years – no air, no sun, no trees, no fish, animals, insects, plants, – and yes, no peeps.
Give yourself a pinch, make sure you’re still among the living.
We and every living animal need them to breathe. The rate they are being cut and burned we will be dead before they can grow back.
It is a well established concept that all property is theft.
This land is your Land this land is my land this land was made for you and me we should all be good stewards of land that is the big question here do we need to cut down the last 10% of old growth forest do we need to squeeze the last of the tar Sands to make oil and petrochemicals do we need a good environment to live in this is what we did for our children end of the line
Brought to you by procrastination and degradation
Killing old growth forests, especially redwoods, should be considered theft. Most lumber cut in the US goes to China too. Don’t they own enough of this country?
Keep on drinking the Kool-Aid.
Steve,
You talkin to me, boy? Meet me out behind the dugout after school, and we’ll talk about it.
(I’m so tough!)
The sheriff’s department is doing their job and I’m glad to see them doing it when you’re on your piece of property you pay for it you pay taxes on it and you certainly should be able to do whatever is legal on it not to all the timber company is trying to do forget that you’re going to lose this time because nobody’s going to let me buy stay up in a tree for months they’re going to be arrested immediately like what happened this morning if anyone needs a being injured is going to be the protest his fault cuz they don’t obey legal orders why don’t you come down and get a job I got a lot of school maybe you could learn how to follow the law
Nazi soldiers were only doing their job too, you were saying?
You are confused with the hackneyed cries of “Nazi.” Coup d’etat were a Nazi specialty. They came to power through a series of illegal physical takeovers from authorities that were trying to stop them because the Nazis knew they were right. That makes the protesters physically interfering more Nazi-like than the authorities arresting them..
Omg! Give me a break ! Crawl back under your rock. That is like saying every protest in the US was nazi like. Does that include the Boston Tea Party and the Civil Rights Movement?
So damn true.
A property owner cannot do whatever they want with their property if that action results in negative impacts elsewhere. Claudia…please stop being a dim wit.
Exactly. Poison is poison. Just ask the fish.
The plan reviewers said that wasn’t so, but a bunch of millennial crybabies from points south think they know better based on……… what raving NIMBYs say on social media!
So, what about the property of the “commons” clean water, clean air, stable seasons, healthy fish populations, ect ect… Personally, I see the need to protect people’s residences and the right for people to feel secure in thier persons.. But isn’t the property of the people also the responsibility of the “government” to protect? This isn’t probably so good for me to speak to these ends here.. for sure. And the extent the gov has taken on citizens here to me is alarming.. but there also is a need to protect the common good, I see that.. personally..
Protecting the commons and keeping operations on private land consistent with the public trust is what the plan review process is all about. But ecobabble won’t fly.
Ohh.. is that so.. is that why 90% of the old growth is gone? I feel so.. refreshed and safe now.. Meawhile hurricanes, and tornadoes, and 0 icecaps.. But hey.. who needs the Southren tip of Florida right?
The plan is not for old growth harvest and the carbon sequestration argument applied to timber harvest is a red herring. The only carbon-sequestering terrestrial environments are bogs (subaqueous reducing environments). Decaying plant matter, which is what unharvested trees inevitably become, releases carbon dioxide.
It’s more about the herbicide use to me. With this plan, however others are not so great.. definitely room for improvement..
But in your previous post you referred to consequences of global warming. When that’s refuted you change the subject.
Hack-and-squirt injects herbicide directly into the target. None gets into the environment. And when glyphosate is externally applied, any that doesn’t get absorbed oxidizes. It’s not like the 2, 4, 5 T that was used 40 years ago.
The large tanoak stands are not a natural feature. They are a byproduct of previous land disturbance.
Something tells me that facts won’t make a difference to your knee-jerk reaction to herbicides.
Not a fan of herbicides.. last I looked cr#p ran down hill. So, the herbicide will just stay where it’s put? Can’t be good when it rains. I am definitely not a fan of herbicides use in the timber lands. Besides that it kills the oaks then has a potential to intensify fire. It must also effect wildlife. Like another commenter pointed out to me, is that there haven’t been enough studies on its impacts to people, or the environment.
I did refer to climate change in my last post, cumulative impacts 1000 little cuts.. If you’ll refer to my comments below, I personally am not opposed to HRC logging, I just think that they should be held to thier commitments that they are claiming.. which is a big commitment. It still stand that 90% of the old growth is gone, and that laws did little to stop that or protect the common good…. This comment was originally geared toward Claudia stating that one can do what ever they want on private land. Ect ect..not necessarily this THP..
Your ignorance is on full display. Glyphosate is, within the first hours after application, either absorbed or oxidized. It is applied during dry weather because that is when it is effective. The fuel load issue with tanoak hack-and-squirt is trivial for several reasons. Unlike conifers, dead tanoak lose their roots, topple, and decay rapidly. Within a few years they are mulch.
The old growth was cut before it gained legal protection.
~worth posting twice;
https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/where-is-glyphosate-banned/
Costco removed MonSatan’s Glyphosate from their shelves last week.
Of course, as a consumer product glyphosate can be misused. Then the lawyers make a killing.
Old growth is not “legally protected”. It should be. Personally I think people should be fighting for the second growth and bans on clear cuts. And no, all the Old growth was masiqured with the blessings of the state.. I do not trust the herbicide use and want to see more studies as to its effects.. If it’s bad for the consumers, it’s probaby bad to implement over large tracks of timber lands as well.. TY for the info Central..
Right on Claudia!
Claudia,
One of the issues is that HRC claims to be sustainable in their forest practices, and the use of herbicides to create standing dead forests is at question as such, comprende Amiga?
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legal orders…..NOT.
You know Sam Jones they come and tell me what to do with my property all the damn time so your argument is nonsense .you simply want to allow scum to destroy the world for money.
Bingo!
The time of Julia Butterfly and the other tree-sitters is over. These defenders of the forest will not prevail, but are to be admired for their tenacity on behalf of the forest.
Yes they need to pull a butterfly and hold the forest down like that. I’d be more than happy to supply any one thing that with whatever supplies they needed!!
Hello all,
We are not bad mouthing capitalism; we are telling the truth about Humboldt Redwood Company and their corporate profit first and foremost policy; to heck with what is really happening in reality to people, water, fish and the landscape. They have a Permit, read HCP, to rob the public of all of that. They have been doing so for 20 years now, with a permit that is. They meaning Maxxam’s Pacific Lumber did massive destructive logging for a dozen plus years before they ever got the OK from the government with the Headwaters Deal[1999.] NO Humboldt Redwood Company is not any better for the residents or the environment that Maxxam was, they just look better on paper. Those of us that have experienced the last 30 years of their combined logging know. The first one destroyed the river and the second company continues the destruction. You cannot log your way to watershed recovery! I know first hand.
Empty accusations and lies justifying lawlessness are the currency of activist movements. If it’s illegal, take them to court.
Some feel if they wait for court, the trees will be logged by they time any justice is received. Catch 22?
or get a job.
Last time I checked protesting was protected under the First Amendment . But let me guess: The only amendment that important to you is the second.
Maybe you were mistaken about what causes the flooding on your property in the first place. The logging decreased but the flooding stayed . I would have a lot more sympathy for your plight if you were really interested in finding a solution for it rather than just being a diva.
Erosion doesn’t just stop the minute the loggers leave. ESPECIALLY WHEN CHEMICAL DEFOLIANTS ARE USED.
The protestors need to quit provoking a harsh response from the police and pretending to be victims. Zero sympathy given that you received the consequences for this type of anti-social behavior; you’re not morally superior in your actions here. The police aren’t the bad guys and the protestors aren’t heroes.
Hey frank basic is this your new pseudonym? ?? Or is this carl anderson???
Weve listened to your propagabda machine since the 80’s, its old and tired.
I look to the day the cops arrest you all for killing off children of the future by destroying the last big trees out there that suck up carbon and radioactivity.
You are literally stealing oxygen from us all and putting more carbon into our ecosystems not to mention the extinctions of critters youre causing in the woods and the amount of loggers with no work left.
You guys have spent endlesd hours discussing selling it, just do it already!!! Youll still make money.
Whelp anyone who needs the sheriffs to show up at a crime just tell them you own timber and protesters are occupying it, the HCSO still in the pocket of timber barons. All this type of cutting does is ruin the future for all of us.
Whrn our area has a huge firestorm due to lack of old growth&poor management, you can thank HRC for burning your family alive.
And to all of you in permit process wouldn’t it be neat if they enforced the rules on this company like they do to you? I personally unclogged culverts that they let get clogged. We saved some hillsides from slumping. If this is frank im sure you remember going out to some sites with us years ago where we showed you the problems. I dont work for that group anymore so im speaking up now.
The biological diversity out there is off the charts. The natives of the Mattole out there were not removed til 1910-20, they held out. May their spirits haunt you.
I always wondered if SGT Ted was someone I lost track long ago. Once I saw your picture and the pipes, no doubt about it. Hope you and the family are doing well.
Your Bhune Street Roomie, with the Ronnie Mask.
[email protected]
I think it important to note, legal is based on fiction and lawful is based on fact.
The words you DO NOT see in the Supreme Law of the Land <<<THIS IS WHAT WE'RE TAKING ABOUT, Right?
are "legal"
or "Illegal".
You may as well as be talking Mandarin, SGT Ted.
👍
I am sick and tired of hearing about these logging protesters. It is time for our law enforcement people to start arresting every single one of them. Protester on the ladder, just cut the cables or ropes and he will come down. These humans are sick and have never worked a day in their life. They do not obey any laws and need to be punished for their actions. You harass the police, and treat them like crap, expect to get the same in return. Put them all on a boat and send them to North Korea, Kim will clean their clock! I am 100% law enforcement.
Lay down the kool-aid yo and share something you know first-hand, than someone else’s fake regurgitated bird seed.
Lay in front of a load log truck bird brain!!!
So you agree with putting qtips of pepper spray in the eyes of local 15&16 year old girls while holding their heads between their knees very close to their crotch?
Watch Fire in the Eyes by earthfilms.
Or having a logger threaten to shoot someone in front of 2 sheriffs who just laughed??? (Happened to me on a legal county road outside a gate)
Or when they find a murdered forest defender on the side of 101 and don’t investigate it or even release it to the press? RIP Jungle
Or when a logger falls a tree on an activist splattering his brains in the woods and there’s no real investigation? RIP Gypsy Chain (read A Good Forest for Dying)
Or when a womam who’s an outspoken advocate is murdered in her home in the middle of Redway&no one is ever arrested? RIP Stephanie
Or for that matter an off duty officer shooting&killing a mentally ill man&critically wounding his elderly parents INSIDE a Costco like what just happened in LA?
Everyone also check out the film
Treesit the art of Resistance by earthfilms.
Our founders said freedom of speech is #1, the boston tea party is very similar to these actions! People getting in trouble for stopping fat cats from making money off their backs&resources.
Police are paid by citizens to protect and serve US not to be the Pinkerton type cops paid by corporations to take down whomever stands in the way of them making more money. The HCSO should not be the timber companys private police force. It was crazy in the 90’s, for instance on greenwood heifgts the sheriffs shut the road down so no onr could see their violent tree extractions. Yes that road was lined by old growth once and since cut the fog doesnt come in there anymore.
So they shut the road and chp showed up and they had a huge argument that i wstched. Meanwhile some smart criminals went up Kneeland road and down gwood heights from the top snd robbed every house. All the cops were at the treesits so it was obvious they could get away with it. Those robberies were never investigated. They would also deputize loggers so they could beat up protesters without being held accountable under the law.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
When our elected officials do nothing about things we care about our only recourse is to protest, in fact its our duty as citizens !!!!
These are YOUR tax dollars being used to protect corporate interests at a time when you cant even get the sheroffs to come fingerprint after a break in. Think about it.
Awwwww……….. bad things happened to protesters who were harassing people at their jobs! Such innocent victims! Failing to connect one’s negative actions with negative consequences is a sign of a character disorder. Reminds me of the guy who tried to cut the safety line of Eric Schatz the tree climber, then howled like a baby after getting taken down hard. I mean, what did he do to deserve that, he was only trying to put the guy in mortal danger right?
Playing chicken with timber fallers, hiding and popping out into the fall zone is dangerous, no two ways about it. The felled tree hit small wood, which is much less predictable than big wood, and the smaller tree whipped onto where the damn fool Gypsy was hiding. Your beloved Gypsy and his colleagues were a bunch of fools and he took the consequence of their stupid game.
That was 30-40 yrs ago. Get a job,
We’re hiring yarder and choke setters, come apply. Industry standards and practices have much changed since you fried your brain a while ago. Trespassing =handcuffs= humboldt hotel and onward. Keep managing your lib forests as such and watch your neighborhoods go up like Paradise. Think of us while you sleep comfortably under your wooden roofs and wipe yoursel in the morning. Good luck HRC. Thin our forests and keep us safe. Keep it going and… Who has a Monday off to sit in ladder BTW?
Uhhhhnmm,
“We need a lawful exodus so the “beast” will eventually die out all on its own and take the debtors along with it, as it is designed to do.” Commonwealth v Valence, District Judge Dale Keenhold
I am sick and tired of hearing about these Companies Poisoning our land-It is time for our law enforcement people to start arresting every single one of them!
Fixed that for you Martin.
North Korea sound like somewhere people with ‘opinions’ like yours would enjoy, no?
fuck the police.
I agree round up all the pigs and put them on a boat send them out to sea.
Cops suck either way
They do know good donuts, however.
There is an elderly woman who lives up this road. This is her way out in a medical emergency. These dipsh!ts care nothing about human life.
As Ace Ventura observed:
“Loo-ooo-ooo-sers!”
Every time a protester shows up, HRC should topple an old growth redwood just for spite. “Hey Mike Gamms, this one’s for you… tiiiiimberrrrr… “
~wrong side of life.
Wrong side of history.
“Ownership”, is truly held by the Whole, not an individual or corporate entity! Stewardship, when governed by the Law of One-ness blesses all. Earth is a living Garden. Wake up and see, I is We. Truth is true and beyond opinion. Spiritual discernment brings harmonious solutions. It is never to late to step back from emotion and personal will, so as to recognize the Actual wonder of Nature, and our common home. We can celebrate Life, or defend death, there is no time but Now. Be the change you want to see.
Try that “Ownership’ is truly held by the Whole, not an individual….” balloon of hot air as justification for entering someone’s house or taking their property without their permission and see what kind of response you get.
~you know Twinkle is referring to the forestland. And as far as owner-ship goes. NO ONE owns Mother Earth. You might want to check your deed – yeah, right where it says TENANT below your name.
The Magna Carta was thus titled so as not to confuse it with its predecessor, The Charter of the Forest.
Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain tear down what time will never give again.
This isn’t about property rights.
This is California state v CA. INC., on the local battlefield.
Fact v Fiction.
The living spirit v the dead corporation.
De Jure v De Facto.
Of course there is a public trust involved in management of timberlands. That is why it is heavily regulated. But that does not give a bunch of venal NIMBYs and ignorant do-nothings from the southlands the right to privilege their nonsense under the guise that they are the True Stewards Of The Earth while taking no real responsibility.
This is not an age to protest against logging.. There not cutting old growth and all those trees are replants put there by Pacific lumber company…. Now it has different owners… That is logging property… So get off of there land your trespassing…… Point
It is NOT “All Replants” there are some Old Growth Fir trees in the mix as well which is what t he whole thing is about!!! If you read some actual news occasionally…!!!
And if you actually read the plan you’d see that they aren’t cutting any of the old trees, only second-growth.
That’s good to hear! (too lazy to go read it, so only wondered).
All the big logs came down the hill last month. They’re probably milled already. They don’t cut old growth, it’s not worth anything. Someone should video the trash, and shit those”defenders” are leaving all over around that gate
~how about measuring, records kept (there are none), of the bazillion gallons of kerosene dumped on the land after a Timber HARVEST Plan.
Americans don’t harvest, they mine.
What an incredibly stupid comment.
~ridicule without substance is the primary defense of the ignorant.
And @ 8:48 this morning – regarding Glyphosate:
In January of 2019, a European Parliament report found that EU regulators based their decision to relicense glyphosate on an assessment that was plagiarized from a coalition of pesticide companies, including Monsanto.
Where is Glyphosate banned?
https://www.baumhedlundlaw.com/toxic-tort-law/monsanto-roundup-lawsuit/where-is-glyphosate-banned/
Facts are not your strong point I see.
Good job defenders of trees and wildlife! Thank you!
They dont cut old growth i used 2 work for the mill so… So educate yourself fool….
They cut 1st and second growth….no old they stopped cutting that a long time ago..
The mill in Scotia is a small log mill. We put it in in the late 90s. They probably take the larger logs to Ukiah., But these people that are recruiting these young kids from the city by telling them lies like ( who knows what they tell them to get them to come up here and risk their lives) should be held responsible when one of them gets seriously hurt doing the stupid shit they are doing at that gate. Hope no one gets hurt, but how stupid do you have to be to set on top of a thirty foot ladder
These idiots need to get a frickin job!!!!
While I applaud the protesters passion and commitment, it would be nice if they had some knowledge and wisdom to accompany it.
This is not old growth forest or pristine wilderness, it’s an area that was logged at least once before and has scattered remnant old trees that are actually being left this time as well.
We need to utilize wood and this is how we get access to it. Wood is a far more climate-friendly building material than any substitute found thus far. This protest is all about NIMBYs raising a ruckus simply because they don’t want to see any logging near them. They all still live in wood houses and burn wood for heat in the winter, I’d wager.
“We need to utilize wood and this is how we get access to it. Wood is a far more climate-friendly building material than any substitute found thus far.”
BIG cough.
Guy walks around with the camera talking shit and being obnoxious to the security guards for close to half the video, the Sheriff’s deputies arrive, they tell the protesters where and where not to stand, the guy gets defiant, and BOOM! The camera falls and the girlies bitch and howl for a few minutes. The rest is boring.
They have logged about a zillion trees. They will log a zillion more. Jobs and profit from the forest. No logging but the same People say it is ok to stomp the forest down looking for the zillion mushrooms and herbs picked for profit. Most People that complain about logging live in wood house let alone wipe their butts everyday with a tree.
~it’s about oxygen, Duh.
It’s about deforestation, not just here, on a planet that’s on life support, populated by self-interested, short-sighted, willingly blind people.
Oxygen release through photosynthesis will continue. If a less productive stand is replaced with a more productive stand, it increases.
You can try to put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig… call it what it is. And let’s have out with it! I want to beilive the HRC has a commitment to “old growth” and “Stewardship” went to thier website to see what they had to say about it. On this very nicely laid out website.. the old growth commitments..
Individual trees preserved from harvesting include:
Any redwood tree, = 48” diameter at breast height (dbh), established prior to 1800
Any Douglas-fir tree, = 36” dbh, established prior to 1800
Any tree established prior to 1800 (conifer or hardwood), regardless of dbh, with a preponderance of species-specific old growth characteristics
Any tree (conifer or hardwood) established prior to 1800 that cannot be replaced in size or ecological function within 80-130 years regardless of dbh or presence of old growth characteristics. Generally, this fourth trigger is applicable to areas of exceptionally low soil quality, such as pygmy forest, pygmy transition soil, serpentine soils, or rocky outcroppings.
Plus some… That is a pretty big commitment from a timber company, I will say. One thing did strick me as a little odd is that out of around 500000 acres only about 359 acres is type 1 old growth and 334 is type 2. I think they can do better..
The use and abuse of herbicides in mind should not be included in sustainable forestry practice.. I will say that.
Please take lots of pictures and carry tape measures. If HRC isn’t living up to thier commitments, let’s see the proof.
I commend people for standing up for what they beilive in.. But I am sure Green Diamond is a lot worse.
At least HRC is milling thier Wood here, and not chopping it all down, especially old growth and sending it to China. That is what a lot of the timber companies are doing these days.. And the logs go incredibly fast when that is the case.. Are folks being sensational or realistic..???
I mean go to the top of Trees of Mystery” and take a look at the “sustainable forest experiment” its a f#ing clear cut. I don’t want things to end like that either..so..
Wow, thank you Small Fry!
http://www.mrc.com/ Thier website…
Lucky they didn’t get a abatement for a illegal structure
“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” — Thoreau.
Where’s Julia Butterfly? Is she still living in Costa Rica so she can be a tax evader?
The billionaire Fisher family who started the Gap own the property. Simply walk up to them in San Francisco or go to their house and reasonably and calmly ask them to stop logging this treasured land. They can ignore protests 200 miles from where they live, work and play. Calmness and persistence for days weeks and months will get results. And always-non violence in words and deeds
THANK YOU PROTESTORS!
Get the facts at lost coast out post. These protesters don’t even know what they’re protesting. Good job HRC.
Keep our communities fire safe and keep managing your land, as BLM and USFS should be doing, to mitigate our upcoming fire season threat. Everyone else, enjoy your nice comfy houses and your paper in the morning, on both sides.
I recommend a book to help the protesters achieve their objective: “The Monkey Wrench Gang” by Edward Abbey.