(Larry Harrell) wrote in message . com...
(Aozotorp) wrote in message ...


(Aozotorp) wrote in message
...

If those groups were truly "green", they'd support some logging that
would lock up carbon into long-term wood products instead of growing
firewood with which to heat our atmosphere. 7 million acres is a lot
of "firewood" to burn up in one year.

Toral rubbish! Given a system in what appears to be homeostatis \, You
want to
do as little as possible to upset that sytem such as by adding massive
amounts
of CO2 = ev ever study buffered systems in Chemistry?

Your response speaks volumes about your ability to comprehend and
understand basic educational concepts, much less applicable science.

Larry, using science to restore public ecosystems


Fine = Use science to debunk it = Not just hype!

Here's a wonderful article that might just hit a little to close to
home for you, bud:


June 6, 2003 Mount Shasta News

Logging protesters served notice

By Lori Sellstrom, Liberty Group News Services



Definetly open minded:


http://www.qlg.org/Config/guestbook98.htm

I'm a small town newspaper reporter in extreme Northern California —
Yreka — eager to learn more about the QLG. Finnally the locals have a
say. What many national special interests groups forget is that locals
tend to care more about their forests and their future, because they
live in them. We don't want them to burn down, we don't want them to
die of insect infestations. I'm just glad that the QLG was able to
come to some sort of consensus. Unfortunately, the Roundtable in
Siskiyou County has not been as successful. Perhaps if all parties
involved were concerned with both the welfare of the forest along with
the welfare of the local community, more could have been accomplished.
Keep up the good work.
Lori Sellstrom
Yreka, CA USA - Thursday, February 05, 1998 at 13:53:15 (PST)


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm a small town newspaper reporter in Extreme Northern California —
Yreka — eager to learn more about the QLG. Finnally the locals have a
say. What many National special interests groups forget is that we
tend to care more about our forests and their future, because we live
in them. We don't want them to burn down, we don't want to die of
insect infestations. I'm just glad that the QLG was able to come to
some sort of consensus. Unfortunately, the Roundtable in Siskiyou
County has not been as successful. Perhaps in all parties involved
primary concern had been the welfare of the forest along with the
welfare of the local community, more could have been accomplished.
Keep up the good work.
Lori Sellstrom
Yreka, CA USA - Thursday, February 05, 1998 at 13:48:49 (PST)

------------

AKA = Tilt = Not!



A group of about 15 young people, calling themselves the Klamath
Salmon Action Network, were busy protesting the Glassups logging
operation near Sawyers Bar Friday, just before two law enforcement
vehicles and the district ranger arrived with a closure notice
requiring them to vacate the timber sale area.

"We're going to issue the closure notice and then give them some time
to gather up their things and move to a safer area," said Salmon River
District Ranger Chance Gowan. "We've cordoned off a safe area away
from the actual logging operation where they can continue their
protest if they wish to."



Hard to say! They seem to have their View (and a nice pic of Salvage
cutting):

http://rogueimc.org/img/2003/05/729.jpg

http://rogueimc.org/2003/05/730.shtml

Tree-Sits Put Up to Stop Salmon River Logging
Klamath-Salmon Action Network, 22.05.2003 19:40



Yesterday May 21 the newly formed Klamath-Salmon Action Network put up
tree sits to stop logging on the Wild and Scenic Salmon River. The
Salmon River is one of the wildest and most diverse forest in North
American and the only undamed undivered tributary of the Klamath. The
Klamath National Forest plans to log 4000 truck loads.


400 year old tree directly above Salmon River



Tree sitters say Salmon River timber coming at the expense of rural
town's drinking water, recreation, fire safety, and Klamath salmon.

Contact: Mary Posa at 541 482-2640 or at 503 957 5572

Northern California residents today set up Tree-sits in the Glassups
Timber Sale in the Klamath National Forest (KNF), on the wild and
scenic Salmon River. The Salmon River is the only undamed and
undiverted river that feeds the Klamath River and is famous for
recreation values and for being the largest Chinook Salmon tributary
in the state. Tree sitters say the Glassups Timber Sale is the first
of three large-scale public land timber sales that would remove much
of the remaining old growth habitat for the Salmon River. Most of the
remote Salmon River flows through public lands. The Knob, Meteor, and
Glassups old growth Timber Sales cut within the designated Wild and
Scenic River corridor and on almost every tributary of both forks of
the Salmon River.

"These sales will take most of the rest of the fire resistant moist
forest from around all the Salmon River towns and private properties,
leaving nothing but fine fuels on steep slopes behind. If these sales
all go through what will be left behind of this wild river is slash,
fine fuels, landslides and dead fish. This will be at the expense of
the rural tourism and fishing economies of the Salmon and Klamath
Rivers, along with the wild ecosystems and rare species of the Salmon
River" stated the Klamath Salmon Action Network (KSAN) spokeswoman
Mary Posa

Citizens also are suing the Klamath National Forest over the illegal
Knob Old Growth Timber sale. Groups point out that the wake of last
year's Klamath fish kill, which killed over 33,000 Chinook and Coho
Salmon and was considered to be one of the biggest environment
disasters in Western US history, that to clear-cut and high-grade the
healthy mid Klamath tributaries coupled with continued large
diversions of the river is an guarantee for Klamath Salmon extinction.
Local residents of the Salmon River are also concerned that timber
sales will cut in their drinking water supplies and put properties at
heightened risk of dangerous wildfires. Rough and Ready out of Cave
Junction has held the contract for the Glassups sale for over a year
and are importing workers to the river.

The Klamath Salmon Action Network says they are working with the
Cascadia Summer group, a group formed to combat the Bush
Administration's environmental rollbacks and increased old-growth
logging through direct action, corporate targeting, and timber sale
monitoring. The group works on threatened public land in Washington,
Oregon and Northern California and promises a "season of resistance on
behalf of the last remaining native forest in the lower 48 states,
most of which is located on public lands." They also state that public
lands' logging is outdated, benefits only corporations.

The Klamath-Salmon Action Network promises continued resistance to old
growth logging in the mid-Klamath and it's tributaries. They can be
contacted though the Mazama Forest Defense website or at





e-mail::
Homepage:: http://www.mazamaforestdefense.org

--------------

http://www.mazamaforestdefense.org

Mazama Forest Defense (MFD) is a non-hierarchical, consensus-based
organization committed to preserving and maintaining the integrity of
remaining native and old growth forests in the Klamath-Siskiyou
bioregion.

Klamath-Siskiyou Timber Sale Revue posted 06-02-2003
THURSDAY, JUNE 5TH
7:00-9:00 PM
HEADWATERS BUILDING
on the corner of 4th and c street
Join us for an evening of information about local timber sales in the
Rogue and Klamath basins. Come find ways to get involved this summer
in protecting our public lands.

Knob, Glassups and Meteor, Klamath National Forest
Kelsey-Whiskey and Pickett Snake, Medford BLM
Silver-Sturgis and Beaver Creek, Rogue and Klamath National Forest
Medicine Lake Highlands Geothermal Development, Modoc National Forest

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HEALTHY FOREST RESTORATION ACT AND THE FIRE
SALVAGE SCAM.

For more info, call MFD at 541.482.2640 or KS Wild at 541.488.5789



Salmon River Action Camp, June 7-12 posted 06-02-2003
Klamath Basin
Klamath-Siskiyou Region N. Cali
Glassups and Knob Timber Sales
The Salmon River, a tributary to the Klamath is one of the Wildest
areas in the country and one of the most diverse in the world. Its
crystal clear waters are now threatened by 3 large scale old growth
timber sales equaling over 20 million board feet (over 3500 log
trucks). They are Glassups, Knob and Meteor Timber Sales. Rough and
Ready just started logging Glassups and Knob is just behind. Stand up
for pur public lands !!!! Resist for the wild.

Events and Trainings in the works: Timber Sale Hikes and actions,
Direct Action, Community Organizing, Non-Toxic Noxious Weed Control,
DYI Media, Natural History, Blockaiding, Prisnor Support, Restoration,
Climbing, Organizing Solidarity Campaigns, Sacred Sites discussion,
the Klamath Riever issue and other threats dissussions, Fire Ecology,
White Water Saftey, Legal, Ground-truthing, etc.

Bring Food, Water, Mustical instruments, an open mind, warm clothes,
cool clothes, donations to Salmon River Forest Defense, and an open
mind. NO DOGS!! This will be a community event, if coming from outside
the area please be nice to locals. For more info or to do a training
call 503 957 5572 or email . Infos and directions will
shortly be on the Mazama Forest defence website
mazamaforestdefense.org

DIRECTIONS

From 1-5: take 1-5 to Yreka hw 3 exit (from north 3rd exit, from south
first exit) turn right from ramp then left at light folling hw 3
signs, go threw Ft. Jones to Edna at Edna the Hw 3 vers left continue
forward and go throgh Edna, at T go right going over the Edna Summmit
to Sawyers Bar,at Sawyers continue foward about 3-5 miles the you will
se the Garden Gulch/ Little North Fork Trail the camp will be the next
left at the Engine Fill Site sign.

From the 101: take the 101 to the 299 (directly North of Arcata) go
east toward Willow Creek, at Willow Creek go left onto the highway 96,
take 96 past Hoopa and past Orleans 7 miles past Orleans will be the
Salmon River Rd (if you hit Somes Bar you went half a mile too far
take the Salmon River Rd past Forks of Salmon and go up the North Fork
toward Sawyers Bar in about 10 miles you will see the Engine Fill site
sign (it is about 1 miles past the Red Bank campground. If you get to
the Garden Gulch/ Little North Fork trailhead you went too far.



Salmon River Tree-Sits Blockaded by Federal Agents posted 06-02-2003
Public Land old-growth sale closed to public
Federal agents are blockading three tree-sits in the Klamath National
Forest in the Salmon River watershed. The Salmon River is the only
undammed, undiverted river that feeds the Klamath and has had three
tree sits blocking part of the Glassups Old Growth Timber Sale for a
week and a half. The Klamath-Action Network is a group involved in the
tree-sits and promises continued resistance for the Knob and Meteor
Timber Sales, which are also public lands old growth sales in the
Salmon River.

Columbia Helicopters, an international company that specializes in
helicopter logging steep and unstable slopes, are clear-cutting and
high grading native forest in the National Forest, which is why the
tree-sits are there.. Old growth logging destroy water quality,
endangered species, and the forests natural resistance to fire. "
These sales will hurt not help forest health by taking out the fire
resistant old growth, leaving brush fields behind, destroying a rural
town's drinking water, and endangering Klamath Salmon" stated Mari
Posa, a spokes woman for the group.

Two men attempting to visit and photograph the tree-sits were detained
for forty minutes Sunday by three federal agents who ticketed them.
They were unaware they weren't allowed on public lands. The two men
must appear in federal court in Redding on Tuesday.

The tree-sits have been cut off from their ground support. Attempting
to starve tree-sitters out of the trees is an old tactic that doesn't
always work, and can result in a standoff between hunger striking
tree-sitters and deforesters. It is not yet clear whether the forest
service and federal agents will attempt to extract the tree-sitters.

The tree sit is part of Cascadia Summer, a campaign to save native
public forest throughout Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
The Klamath National Forest of concern to the campaign as it is one of
the wildest and most diverse forests in the United States

For more info, contact Mari Posa 503 957 5572



Activists take ancient stump from Medford BLM posted 06-02-2003
On Tuesday, May 27, nine forest activists with the help of one
frustrated tree feller entered a current logging site at the MR.
Wilson timber sale on land held by the Medford Bureau of Land
Management. With no BLM or company security in the vicinity, the group
removed a cross section from the stump of a 440-year old Douglas Fir
tree cut down earlier this month by the Herbert Lumber Company. The
enormous round, which weighs over 500 pounds will be on display at
various locations throughout the summer.
The tree-feller, who resides in Southern Oregon wishes to remain
nameless out of concern for his own job security. However, he allowed
the Rogue Independent Media Center to film him from behind as he
worked the 36-inch chainsaw for well over an hour in order to remove
an even round cross section.

When asked why he participated in the action, he said, "I am
frustrated with the federal agencies working hand in hand with the big
bosses to profit off the hard labor of industrial forest workers. They
are pushing through plans that are not sustainable for any kind of
jobs nor for the rural way of life that demands such work."

Last summer, BLM Director Kathleen Clark told the Medford Mail
Tribune, "The projects I've been out on, they are leaving all the big
trees and going in for the smaller ones, that is standard practice out
there now."

The action immediately followed the Earth First! Northwest Regional
Rendezvous, at which over 200 eco-activists converged on the edge of
the Kalmiopsis Wilderness to share skills and coordinate regional
campaigns. The Rendezvous officially kicked off Cascadia Summer, a
coordinated season of resistance stretching from British Columbia to
Northern California, Mazama Forest Defense will display the
cross-section to show the public that Clark is lying. BLM continues to
destroy intact ancient forest habitat. MFD will organize such displays
all summer as part of the region-wide Cascadia Summer campaign.

Besides MR. Wilson, which remains active this week, MFD and its
supporters will also coordinate resistance to several other Medford
BLM projects such as the 1,727-acre Kelsey Whiskey sale scheduled this
summer. MFD is also supporting the Klamath Salmon Action Network who
put up three tree-sits this month at the Glassups timber sale on the
Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest.




Cascadia Summer 2003: Forest Defense Elevates to a New Level posted
05-30-2003
A strategic campaign in defense of the precious forests of the entire
Cascade Mountain Range and adjacent areas, the bioregion known as
"Cascadia," was kicked-off yesterday with actions across the region.
Just as forest destruction on public lands is on the rise, a popular
movement to protect those lands is also advancing to a new level.
Actions took place throughout Oregon, Washington, Northern California
in the United States and in British Columbia, Canada.
The Cascadia Summer 2003 campaign is an alliance of groups with a wide
spectrum of skills and tactics, including the Cascadia Forest
Alliance, Cascadia Forest Defenders, Forest Action Network, Blue
Mountains Biodiversity Project, Mazama Forest Defense, Northwest
Ecosystem Survey Team, Klamath-Salmon Action Network, Cascadia Defense
Network, Shuksan Direct Action, and Olympia and Springfield Earth
First!.

These groups have a history of successfully defending public forests
at places like Warner Creek, Eagle Creek, Watch Mountain, Clayoquot
Sound and dozens of smaller sites. This past weekend, at a meetings in
southwestern Oregon and in the Walbran Valley in southern British
Columbia, these groups and numerous individuals combined resources and
efforts in an attempt to completely stop the destruction of the
ancient forests of Cascadia. These groups and individuals are now
fanning out across the region to begin actions and education designed
to challenge corporate control of our forests and to increase the
amount and diversity of public participation.

The Cascadia Summer 2003 campaign is happening at a time when the Bush
administration is working to decrease public participation and use the
fear of forest fire as the excuse to increase commercial logging of
public lands through the ³Healthy Forest Restoration Act² which the
U.S. House or Representatives passed on May 20. The Healthy Forest
Restoration Act will increase destructive ancient forest logging while
doing little to protect homes and communities from wildfire.

Here is a list of Cascadia Summer 2003 actions that are happening this
week:

Wednesday, BMC West, one of the largest retail lumber chains in the
U.S., was the subject of protests in 8 cities as activists demanded an
end to the company¹s purchasing policies, which have been linked to
endangered forest destruction in the U.S., Chile and British Columbia.
BMC West¹s suppliers include Roseburg Forest Products, Freres Lumber
and Weyerhaeuser, logging companies based in Cascadia. BMC West and
their business partners profit handsomely from the public loss of
biodiversity, clean water and recreation.

Yesterday, logging continued near the treesits set up last week at the
Glassups timber sale on the Wild and Scenic Salmon River in the
Klamath National Forest. Ancient trees are being felled close to the
occupied treesits. Continued resistance to logging of ancient forests
in Glassups and the nearby Knob timber sale will continue throughout
the Summer.

Today, a forest action training camp begins focused on the Solo timber
sale and treesit in the Mt. Hood National Forest near Portland,
Oregon. The Solo sale would allow convicted timber thieves Freres
Lumber to clearcut 167 acres of ancient forests, including some of the
biggest trees and some of the oldest Pacific yew trees near Mt. Hood.
The planned logging at Solo threatens not only ancient forests and
biodiversity, but water quality for 185,000 Oregonians as well.

In Eastern Oregon, a widespread field checking survey began this week
to "ground-truth" National Forest timber sales to look for U.S. Forest
Service errors that frequently accompany their proposals for logging.
Additionally, citizen-surveys are being completed for endangered
species in timber sales ready for logging.

Near Eugene at the Straw Devil timber sale, a newly formed women¹s
group is actively working to protect the forest and to confront sexual
oppression in the environmental movement. Two treesits were
established at Straw Devil recently where logging is expected to begin
in July.

Other activists are traveling to reinforce the other two current
public lands treesits in Cascadia: Fall Creek and Winberry in Oregon.
The Fall Creek treesit is now in its 6th year of continuous occupation
of a forest under immediate threat of destruction.

Numerous other Cascadia Summer campaigns are on-going or in the
planning stages. These include the campaign against Roseburg Forest
Products timber baron Allyn Ford, president of Umpqua Bank; the
upcoming visit by the Republican Leadership Conference to Portland;
and the upcoming Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural
Science and Technology and World Trade Organization discussions in
Sacramento, California, June 22-25.

For more info, interviews or video footage, call the number above or
log onto www.cascadiasummer.org throughout the Summer.



Three tree-sits put up on Salmon River posted 05-29-2003
Northern California residents today set up Tree-sits in the Glassups
Timber Sale in the Klamath National Forest (KNF), on the wild and
scenic Salmon River. The Salmon River is the only undamed and
undiverted river that feeds the Klamath River and is famous for
recreation values and for being the largest Chinook Salmon tributary
in the state. Tree sitters say the Glassups Timber Sale is the first
of three large-scale public land timber sales that would remove much
of the remaining old growth habitat for the Salmon River. Most of the
remote Salmon River flows through public lands. The Knob, Meteor, and
Glassups old growth Timber Sales cut within the designated Wild and
Scenic River corridor and on almost every tributary of both forks of
the Salmon River.
"These sales will take most of the rest of the fire resistant moist
forest from around all the Salmon River towns and private properties,
leaving nothing but fine fuels on steep slopes behind. If these sales
all go through what will be left behind of this wild river is slash,
fine fuels, landslides and dead fish. This will be at the expense of
the rural tourism and fishing economies of the Salmon and Klamath
Rivers, along with the wild ecosystems and rare species of the Salmon
River" stated the Klamath Salmon Action Network (KSAN) spokeswoman
Mary Posa

Citizens also are suing the Klamath National Forest over the illegal
Knob Old Growth Timber sale. Groups point out that the wake of last
year's Klamath fish kill, which killed over 33,000 Chinook and Coho
Salmon and was considered to be one of the biggest environment
disasters in Western US history, that to clear-cut and high-grade the
healthy mid Klamath tributaries coupled with continued large
diversions of the river is an guarantee for Klamath Salmon extinction.
Local residents of the Salmon River are also concerned that timber
sales will cut in their drinking water supplies and put properties at
heightened risk of dangerous wildfires. Rough and Ready out of Cave
Junction has held the contract for the Glassups sale for over a year
and are importing workers to the river.

The Klamath Salmon Action Network says they are working with the
Cascadia Summer group, a group formed to combat the Bush
Administration's environmental rollbacks and increased old-growth
logging through direct action, corporate targeting, and timber sale
monitoring. The group works on threatened public land in Washington,
Oregon and Northern California and promises a "season of resistance on
behalf of the last remaining native forest in the lower 48 states,
most of which is located on public lands." They also state that public
lands' logging is outdated, benefits only corporations.

The Klamath-Salmon Action Network promises continued resistance to old
growth logging in the mid-Klamath and it's tributaries.



Western Earth First! Regional Rendezvous Flyer! posted 05-16-2003

Download, print it up, and flyer your town!


Photo from the active Mr. Wilson timber sale posted 05-08-2003

Old-growth tree cut in the Mr. Wilson timber sale in the Glendale
district of the BLM, April 2003. Mr. Wilson is an active timber sale
northwest of Grants Pass. Government agencies, backed by corporate
interests, continue to remove the largest, most fire-resistant
components of the forest. Instead of subsizing ecologically
sustainable forestry work, taxes are paying for the removal of the
last majestic old-growth in the Pacific Northwest under the guise of
'fuels reduction.'


Earth First! Cascadia Regional Rendezvous, May 23-27 posted 05-01-2003
In the last year, eco-activists have seen a rapid increase in the
level of forest destruction on public lands, the erosion of
hard-fought legal protections and the amount of government repression
on groups fighting for social and environmental justice. Bush and his
cronies are organizing to continue profiting from injustice and
exploiting the Earth. We are organizing to defend it.
Join us Memorial Day weekend for education, action and fun as we get
ready to face a heated summer of defense in the Pacific Northwest. The
weekend will be full of workshops, skills shares and strategy sessions
including climbing & ropes, natural medicine & birth control, global
justice, coalition building, prison support, primitive skills,
Siskiyou geobiology, wilderness/city medic, legal, corporate
campaigning, non-violence and so on, amidst the extraordinary
mountains of the Klamath-Siskiyou.
Read more about...



Womyns Action Camp, some thoughts half way through posted 04-17-2003
Waxing in celebration of the full moon,
the clearcuts bear striking resemblance to our souls
As in all struggles against state oppression, injustice and
destruction, the people must stand and protect what the laws of the
capitalist state do not.
And people do.
Women do.

Upwards of a hundred women from a dozen states have come in ebb and
flow to the Salmon River since last week to learn new skills and
explore ways to confront patriarchy and misogyny. The rains have been
heavy and the spirits have been high. We have been climbing trees,
collecting horsetail, hiking units, building things, learning legal
rights, the Patriot Act, archery, backwoods medicine and are
practicing self-defense. Facilitated discussions on sexual and verbal
assault, gender and the identification of patriarchy (to name a few
examples) have proved to be simple and sturdy platforms for radical
and free expression.

Many women spoke of appreciation for the free-ness of the event, both
in creating a safe space for empowerment, and charging no money to be
there. Its not surprising that an anti-patriarchal gathering would not
be based on money. Nor is it surprising that it seems odd to us that
people would organize and gather for an event that is dependent on
cooperation, not financial incentives.

There are many workshops and skill shares planned through April 24, so
there is still plenty of time to join the camp and experience the
unique environment of women together and alone in the wild forest. The
diversity of experience present at the camp offers a wealth of
gathered knowledge and new, fresh energy. Come join us for the second
week to delve deeper as a community of women into the confrontation of
patriarchy and the political domination of our minds and bodies.

Trainings this weekend include self-defense, climbing and knots,
surveying, strategic action planning, chainsaw use, corporate
campaigning, natural health and fertility awareness, botany and tree
ID, the sweat lodge and more.

The rains are clearing up, but come prepared with warm clothes, rain
gear and good boots. There have been a lot of bulk foods and teas
donated, but fresh produce would be a good addition to bring. Extra
blankets are needed for the sweat lodge. Drive with caution, the road
from Etna to Sawyers Bar is narrow and steep with a few unmarked sharp
switchbacks. There is no snow on the road (although several feet on
the side of the road at the summit). Dropping elevation to the camp on
the Salmon River brings warmer weather.

(Larry Harrell) wrote in message . com...
(Aozotorp) wrote in message ...


(Aozotorp) wrote in message
...

If those groups were truly "green", they'd support some logging that
would lock up carbon into long-term wood products instead of growing
firewood with which to heat our atmosphere. 7 million acres is a lot
of "firewood" to burn up in one year.

Toral rubbish! Given a system in what appears to be homeostatis \, You
want to
do as little as possible to upset that sytem such as by adding massive
amounts
of CO2 = ev ever study buffered systems in Chemistry?

Your response speaks volumes about your ability to comprehend and
understand basic educational concepts, much less applicable science.

Larry, using science to restore public ecosystems


Fine = Use science to debunk it = Not just hype!

Here's a wonderful article that might just hit a little to close to
home for you, bud:


June 6, 2003 Mount Shasta News

Logging protesters served notice

By Lori Sellstrom, Liberty Group News Services



Definetly open minded:


http://www.qlg.org/Config/guestbook98.htm

I'm a small town newspaper reporter in extreme Northern California —
Yreka — eager to learn more about the QLG. Finnally the locals have a
say. What many national special interests groups forget is that locals
tend to care more about their forests and their future, because they
live in them. We don't want them to burn down, we don't want them to
die of insect infestations. I'm just glad that the QLG was able to
come to some sort of consensus. Unfortunately, the Roundtable in
Siskiyou County has not been as successful. Perhaps if all parties
involved were concerned with both the welfare of the forest along with
the welfare of the local community, more could have been accomplished.
Keep up the good work.
Lori Sellstrom
Yreka, CA USA - Thursday, February 05, 1998 at 13:53:15 (PST)


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm a small town newspaper reporter in Extreme Northern California —
Yreka — eager to learn more about the QLG. Finnally the locals have a
say. What many National special interests groups forget is that we
tend to care more about our forests and their future, because we live
in them. We don't want them to burn down, we don't want to die of
insect infestations. I'm just glad that the QLG was able to come to
some sort of consensus. Unfortunately, the Roundtable in Siskiyou
County has not been as successful. Perhaps in all parties involved
primary concern had been the welfare of the forest along with the
welfare of the local community, more could have been accomplished.
Keep up the good work.
Lori Sellstrom
Yreka, CA USA - Thursday, February 05, 1998 at 13:48:49 (PST)

------------

AKA = Tilt = Not!



A group of about 15 young people, calling themselves the Klamath
Salmon Action Network, were busy protesting the Glassups logging
operation near Sawyers Bar Friday, just before two law enforcement
vehicles and the district ranger arrived with a closure notice
requiring them to vacate the timber sale area.

"We're going to issue the closure notice and then give them some time
to gather up their things and move to a safer area," said Salmon River
District Ranger Chance Gowan. "We've cordoned off a safe area away
from the actual logging operation where they can continue their
protest if they wish to."



Hard to say! They seem to have their View (and a nice pic of Salvage
cutting):

http://rogueimc.org/img/2003/05/729.jpg

http://rogueimc.org/2003/05/730.shtml

Tree-Sits Put Up to Stop Salmon River Logging
Klamath-Salmon Action Network, 22.05.2003 19:40



Yesterday May 21 the newly formed Klamath-Salmon Action Network put up
tree sits to stop logging on the Wild and Scenic Salmon River. The
Salmon River is one of the wildest and most diverse forest in North
American and the only undamed undivered tributary of the Klamath. The
Klamath National Forest plans to log 4000 truck loads.


400 year old tree directly above Salmon River



Tree sitters say Salmon River timber coming at the expense of rural
town's drinking water, recreation, fire safety, and Klamath salmon.

Contact: Mary Posa at 541 482-2640 or at 503 957 5572

Northern California residents today set up Tree-sits in the Glassups
Timber Sale in the Klamath National Forest (KNF), on the wild and
scenic Salmon River. The Salmon River is the only undamed and
undiverted river that feeds the Klamath River and is famous for
recreation values and for being the largest Chinook Salmon tributary
in the state. Tree sitters say the Glassups Timber Sale is the first
of three large-scale public land timber sales that would remove much
of the remaining old growth habitat for the Salmon River. Most of the
remote Salmon River flows through public lands. The Knob, Meteor, and
Glassups old growth Timber Sales cut within the designated Wild and
Scenic River corridor and on almost every tributary of both forks of
the Salmon River.

"These sales will take most of the rest of the fire resistant moist
forest from around all the Salmon River towns and private properties,
leaving nothing but fine fuels on steep slopes behind. If these sales
all go through what will be left behind of this wild river is slash,
fine fuels, landslides and dead fish. This will be at the expense of
the rural tourism and fishing economies of the Salmon and Klamath
Rivers, along with the wild ecosystems and rare species of the Salmon
River" stated the Klamath Salmon Action Network (KSAN) spokeswoman
Mary Posa

Citizens also are suing the Klamath National Forest over the illegal
Knob Old Growth Timber sale. Groups point out that the wake of last
year's Klamath fish kill, which killed over 33,000 Chinook and Coho
Salmon and was considered to be one of the biggest environment
disasters in Western US history, that to clear-cut and high-grade the
healthy mid Klamath tributaries coupled with continued large
diversions of the river is an guarantee for Klamath Salmon extinction.
Local residents of the Salmon River are also concerned that timber
sales will cut in their drinking water supplies and put properties at
heightened risk of dangerous wildfires. Rough and Ready out of Cave
Junction has held the contract for the Glassups sale for over a year
and are importing workers to the river.

The Klamath Salmon Action Network says they are working with the
Cascadia Summer group, a group formed to combat the Bush
Administration's environmental rollbacks and increased old-growth
logging through direct action, corporate targeting, and timber sale
monitoring. The group works on threatened public land in Washington,
Oregon and Northern California and promises a "season of resistance on
behalf of the last remaining native forest in the lower 48 states,
most of which is located on public lands." They also state that public
lands' logging is outdated, benefits only corporations.

The Klamath-Salmon Action Network promises continued resistance to old
growth logging in the mid-Klamath and it's tributaries. They can be
contacted though the Mazama Forest Defense website or at





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Homepage:: http://www.mazamaforestdefense.org

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http://www.mazamaforestdefense.org

Mazama Forest Defense (MFD) is a non-hierarchical, consensus-based
organization committed to preserving and maintaining the integrity of
remaining native and old growth forests in the Klamath-Siskiyou
bioregion.

Klamath-Siskiyou Timber Sale Revue posted 06-02-2003
THURSDAY, JUNE 5TH
7:00-9:00 PM
HEADWATERS BUILDING
on the corner of 4th and c street
Join us for an evening of information about local timber sales in the
Rogue and Klamath basins. Come find ways to get involved this summer
in protecting our public lands.

Knob, Glassups and Meteor, Klamath National Forest
Kelsey-Whiskey and Pickett Snake, Medford BLM
Silver-Sturgis and Beaver Creek, Rogue and Klamath National Forest
Medicine Lake Highlands Geothermal Development, Modoc National Forest

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HEALTHY FOREST RESTORATION ACT AND THE FIRE
SALVAGE SCAM.

For more info, call MFD at 541.482.2640 or KS Wild at 541.488.5789



Salmon River Action Camp, June 7-12 posted 06-02-2003
Klamath Basin
Klamath-Siskiyou Region N. Cali
Glassups and Knob Timber Sales
The Salmon River, a tributary to the Klamath is one of the Wildest
areas in the country and one of the most diverse in the world. Its
crystal clear waters are now threatened by 3 large scale old growth
timber sales equaling over 20 million board feet (over 3500 log
trucks). They are Glassups, Knob and Meteor Timber Sales. Rough and
Ready just started logging Glassups and Knob is just behind. Stand up
for pur public lands !!!! Resist for the wild.

Events and Trainings in the works: Timber Sale Hikes and actions,
Direct Action, Community Organizing, Non-Toxic Noxious Weed Control,
DYI Media, Natural History, Blockaiding, Prisnor Support, Restoration,
Climbing, Organizing Solidarity Campaigns, Sacred Sites discussion,
the Klamath Riever issue and other threats dissussions, Fire Ecology,
White Water Saftey, Legal, Ground-truthing, etc.

Bring Food, Water, Mustical instruments, an open mind, warm clothes,
cool clothes, donations to Salmon River Forest Defense, and an open
mind. NO DOGS!! This will be a community event, if coming from outside
the area please be nice to locals. For more info or to do a training
call 503 957 5572 or email . Infos and directions will
shortly be on the Mazama Forest defence website
mazamaforestdefense.org

DIRECTIONS

From 1-5: take 1-5 to Yreka hw 3 exit (from north 3rd exit, from south
first exit) turn right from ramp then left at light folling hw 3
signs, go threw Ft. Jones to Edna at Edna the Hw 3 vers left continue
forward and go throgh Edna, at T go right going over the Edna Summmit
to Sawyers Bar,at Sawyers continue foward about 3-5 miles the you will
se the Garden Gulch/ Little North Fork Trail the camp will be the next
left at the Engine Fill Site sign.

From the 101: take the 101 to the 299 (directly North of Arcata) go
east toward Willow Creek, at Willow Creek go left onto the highway 96,
take 96 past Hoopa and past Orleans 7 miles past Orleans will be the
Salmon River Rd (if you hit Somes Bar you went half a mile too far
take the Salmon River Rd past Forks of Salmon and go up the North Fork
toward Sawyers Bar in about 10 miles you will see the Engine Fill site
sign (it is about 1 miles past the Red Bank campground. If you get to
the Garden Gulch/ Little North Fork trailhead you went too far.



Salmon River Tree-Sits Blockaded by Federal Agents posted 06-02-2003
Public Land old-growth sale closed to public
Federal agents are blockading three tree-sits in the Klamath National
Forest in the Salmon River watershed. The Salmon River is the only
undammed, undiverted river that feeds the Klamath and has had three
tree sits blocking part of the Glassups Old Growth Timber Sale for a
week and a half. The Klamath-Action Network is a group involved in the
tree-sits and promises continued resistance for the Knob and Meteor
Timber Sales, which are also public lands old growth sales in the
Salmon River.

Columbia Helicopters, an international company that specializes in
helicopter logging steep and unstable slopes, are clear-cutting and
high grading native forest in the National Forest, which is why the
tree-sits are there.. Old growth logging destroy water quality,
endangered species, and the forests natural resistance to fire. "
These sales will hurt not help forest health by taking out the fire
resistant old growth, leaving brush fields behind, destroying a rural
town's drinking water, and endangering Klamath Salmon" stated Mari
Posa, a spokes woman for the group.

Two men attempting to visit and photograph the tree-sits were detained
for forty minutes Sunday by three federal agents who ticketed them.
They were unaware they weren't allowed on public lands. The two men
must appear in federal court in Redding on Tuesday.

The tree-sits have been cut off from their ground support. Attempting
to starve tree-sitters out of the trees is an old tactic that doesn't
always work, and can result in a standoff between hunger striking
tree-sitters and deforesters. It is not yet clear whether the forest
service and federal agents will attempt to extract the tree-sitters.

The tree sit is part of Cascadia Summer, a campaign to save native
public forest throughout Northern California, Oregon and Washington.
The Klamath National Forest of concern to the campaign as it is one of
the wildest and most diverse forests in the United States

For more info, contact Mari Posa 503 957 5572



Activists take ancient stump from Medford BLM posted 06-02-2003
On Tuesday, May 27, nine forest activists with the help of one
frustrated tree feller entered a current logging site at the MR.
Wilson timber sale on land held by the Medford Bureau of Land
Management. With no BLM or company security in the vicinity, the group
removed a cross section from the stump of a 440-year old Douglas Fir
tree cut down earlier this month by the Herbert Lumber Company. The
enormous round, which weighs over 500 pounds will be on display at
various locations throughout the summer.
The tree-feller, who resides in Southern Oregon wishes to remain
nameless out of concern for his own job security. However, he allowed
the Rogue Independent Media Center to film him from behind as he
worked the 36-inch chainsaw for well over an hour in order to remove
an even round cross section.

When asked why he participated in the action, he said, "I am
frustrated with the federal agencies working hand in hand with the big
bosses to profit off the hard labor of industrial forest workers. They
are pushing through plans that are not sustainable for any kind of
jobs nor for the rural way of life that demands such work."

Last summer, BLM Director Kathleen Clark told the Medford Mail
Tribune, "The projects I've been out on, they are leaving all the big
trees and going in for the smaller ones, that is standard practice out
there now."

The action immediately followed the Earth First! Northwest Regional
Rendezvous, at which over 200 eco-activists converged on the edge of
the Kalmiopsis Wilderness to share skills and coordinate regional
campaigns. The Rendezvous officially kicked off Cascadia Summer, a
coordinated season of resistance stretching from British Columbia to
Northern California, Mazama Forest Defense will display the
cross-section to show the public that Clark is lying. BLM continues to
destroy intact ancient forest habitat. MFD will organize such displays
all summer as part of the region-wide Cascadia Summer campaign.

Besides MR. Wilson, which remains active this week, MFD and its
supporters will also coordinate resistance to several other Medford
BLM projects such as the 1,727-acre Kelsey Whiskey sale scheduled this
summer. MFD is also supporting the Klamath Salmon Action Network who
put up three tree-sits this month at the Glassups timber sale on the
Salmon River in the Klamath National Forest.




Cascadia Summer 2003: Forest Defense Elevates to a New Level posted
05-30-2003
A strategic campaign in defense of the precious forests of the entire
Cascade Mountain Range and adjacent areas, the bioregion known as
"Cascadia," was kicked-off yesterday with actions across the region.
Just as forest destruction on public lands is on the rise, a popular
movement to protect those lands is also advancing to a new level.
Actions took place throughout Oregon, Washington, Northern California
in the United States and in British Columbia, Canada.
The Cascadia Summer 2003 campaign is an alliance of groups with a wide
spectrum of skills and tactics, including the Cascadia Forest
Alliance, Cascadia Forest Defenders, Forest Action Network, Blue
Mountains Biodiversity Project, Mazama Forest Defense, Northwest
Ecosystem Survey Team, Klamath-Salmon Action Network, Cascadia Defense
Network, Shuksan Direct Action, and Olympia and Springfield Earth
First!.

These groups have a history of successfully defending public forests
at places like Warner Creek, Eagle Creek, Watch Mountain, Clayoquot
Sound and dozens of smaller sites. This past weekend, at a meetings in
southwestern Oregon and in the Walbran Valley in southern British
Columbia, these groups and numerous individuals combined resources and
efforts in an attempt to completely stop the destruction of the
ancient forests of Cascadia. These groups and individuals are now
fanning out across the region to begin actions and education designed
to challenge corporate control of our forests and to increase the
amount and diversity of public participation.

The Cascadia Summer 2003 campaign is happening at a time when the Bush
administration is working to decrease public participation and use the
fear of forest fire as the excuse to increase commercial logging of
public lands through the ³Healthy Forest Restoration Act² which the
U.S. House or Representatives passed on May 20. The Healthy Forest
Restoration Act will increase destructive ancient forest logging while
doing little to protect homes and communities from wildfire.

Here is a list of Cascadia Summer 2003 actions that are happening this
week:

Wednesday, BMC West, one of the largest retail lumber chains in the
U.S., was the subject of protests in 8 cities as activists demanded an
end to the company¹s purchasing policies, which have been linked to
endangered forest destruction in the U.S., Chile and British Columbia.
BMC West¹s suppliers include Roseburg Forest Products, Freres Lumber
and Weyerhaeuser, logging companies based in Cascadia. BMC West and
their business partners profit handsomely from the public loss of
biodiversity, clean water and recreation.

Yesterday, logging continued near the treesits set up last week at the
Glassups timber sale on the Wild and Scenic Salmon River in the
Klamath National Forest. Ancient trees are being felled close to the
occupied treesits. Continued resistance to logging of ancient forests
in Glassups and the nearby Knob timber sale will continue throughout
the Summer.

Today, a forest action training camp begins focused on the Solo timber
sale and treesit in the Mt. Hood National Forest near Portland,
Oregon. The Solo sale would allow convicted timber thieves Freres
Lumber to clearcut 167 acres of ancient forests, including some of the
biggest trees and some of the oldest Pacific yew trees near Mt. Hood.
The planned logging at Solo threatens not only ancient forests and
biodiversity, but water quality for 185,000 Oregonians as well.

In Eastern Oregon, a widespread field checking survey began this week
to "ground-truth" National Forest timber sales to look for U.S. Forest
Service errors that frequently accompany their proposals for logging.
Additionally, citizen-surveys are being completed for endangered
species in timber sales ready for logging.

Near Eugene at the Straw Devil timber sale, a newly formed women¹s
group is actively working to protect the forest and to confront sexual
oppression in the environmental movement. Two treesits were
established at Straw Devil recently where logging is expected to begin
in July.

Other activists are traveling to reinforce the other two current
public lands treesits in Cascadia: Fall Creek and Winberry in Oregon.
The Fall Creek treesit is now in its 6th year of continuous occupation
of a forest under immediate threat of destruction.

Numerous other Cascadia Summer campaigns are on-going or in the
planning stages. These include the campaign against Roseburg Forest
Products timber baron Allyn Ford, president of Umpqua Bank; the
upcoming visit by the Republican Leadership Conference to Portland;
and the upcoming Ministerial Conference and Expo on Agricultural
Science and Technology and World Trade Organization discussions in
Sacramento, California, June 22-25.

For more info, interviews or video footage, call the number above or
log onto www.cascadiasummer.org throughout the Summer.



Three tree-sits put up on Salmon River posted 05-29-2003
Northern California residents today set up Tree-sits in the Glassups
Timber Sale in the Klamath National Forest (KNF), on the wild and
scenic Salmon River. The Salmon River is the only undamed and
undiverted river that feeds the Klamath River and is famous for
recreation values and for being the largest Chinook Salmon tributary
in the state. Tree sitters say the Glassups Timber Sale is the first
of three large-scale public land timber sales that would remove much
of the remaining old growth habitat for the Salmon River. Most of the
remote Salmon River flows through public lands. The Knob, Meteor, and
Glassups old growth Timber Sales cut within the designated Wild and
Scenic River corridor and on almost every tributary of both forks of
the Salmon River.
"These sales will take most of the rest of the fire resistant moist
forest from around all the Salmon River towns and private properties,
leaving nothing but fine fuels on steep slopes behind. If these sales
all go through what will be left behind of this wild river is slash,
fine fuels, landslides and dead fish. This will be at the expense of
the rural tourism and fishing economies of the Salmon and Klamath
Rivers, along with the wild ecosystems and rare species of the Salmon
River" stated the Klamath Salmon Action Network (KSAN) spokeswoman
Mary Posa

Citizens also are suing the Klamath National Forest over the illegal
Knob Old Growth Timber sale. Groups point out that the wake of last
year's Klamath fish kill, which killed over 33,000 Chinook and Coho
Salmon and was considered to be one of the biggest environment
disasters in Western US history, that to clear-cut and high-grade the
healthy mid Klamath tributaries coupled with continued large
diversions of the river is an guarantee for Klamath Salmon extinction.
Local residents of the Salmon River are also concerned that timber
sales will cut in their drinking water supplies and put properties at
heightened risk of dangerous wildfires. Rough and Ready out of Cave
Junction has held the contract for the Glassups sale for over a year
and are importing workers to the river.

The Klamath Salmon Action Network says they are working with the
Cascadia Summer group, a group formed to combat the Bush
Administration's environmental rollbacks and increased old-growth
logging through direct action, corporate targeting, and timber sale
monitoring. The group works on threatened public land in Washington,
Oregon and Northern California and promises a "season of resistance on
behalf of the last remaining native forest in the lower 48 states,
most of which is located on public lands." They also state that public
lands' logging is outdated, benefits only corporations.

The Klamath-Salmon Action Network promises continued resistance to old
growth logging in the mid-Klamath and it's tributaries.



Western Earth First! Regional Rendezvous Flyer! posted 05-16-2003

Download, print it up, and flyer your town!


Photo from the active Mr. Wilson timber sale posted 05-08-2003

Old-growth tree cut in the Mr. Wilson timber sale in the Glendale
district of the BLM, April 2003. Mr. Wilson is an active timber sale
northwest of Grants Pass. Government agencies, backed by corporate
interests, continue to remove the largest, most fire-resistant
components of the forest. Instead of subsizing ecologically
sustainable forestry work, taxes are paying for the removal of the
last majestic old-growth in the Pacific Northwest under the guise of
'fuels reduction.'


Earth First! Cascadia Regional Rendezvous, May 23-27 posted 05-01-2003
In the last year, eco-activists have seen a rapid increase in the
level of forest destruction on public lands, the erosion of
hard-fought legal protections and the amount of government repression
on groups fighting for social and environmental justice. Bush and his
cronies are organizing to continue profiting from injustice and
exploiting the Earth. We are organizing to defend it.
Join us Memorial Day weekend for education, action and fun as we get
ready to face a heated summer of defense in the Pacific Northwest. The
weekend will be full of workshops, skills shares and strategy sessions
including climbing & ropes, natural medicine & birth control, global
justice, coalition building, prison support, primitive skills,
Siskiyou geobiology, wilderness/city medic, legal, corporate
campaigning, non-violence and so on, amidst the extraordinary
mountains of the Klamath-Siskiyou.
Read more about...



Womyns Action Camp, some thoughts half way through posted 04-17-2003
Waxing in celebration of the full moon,
the clearcuts bear striking resemblance to our souls
As in all struggles against state oppression, injustice and
destruction, the people must stand and protect what the laws of the
capitalist state do not.
And people do.
Women do.

Upwards of a hundred women from a dozen states have come in ebb and
flow to the Salmon River since last week to learn new skills and
explore ways to confront patriarchy and misogyny. The rains have been
heavy and the spirits have been high. We have been climbing trees,
collecting horsetail, hiking units, building things, learning legal
rights, the Patriot Act, archery, backwoods medicine and are
practicing self-defense. Facilitated discussions on sexual and verbal
assault, gender and the identification of patriarchy (to name a few
examples) have proved to be simple and sturdy platforms for radical
and free expression.

Many women spoke of appreciation for the free-ness of the event, both
in creating a safe space for empowerment, and charging no money to be
there. Its not surprising that an anti-patriarchal gathering would not
be based on money. Nor is it surprising that it seems odd to us that
people would organize and gather for an event that is dependent on
cooperation, not financial incentives.

There are many workshops and skill shares planned through April 24, so
there is still plenty of time to join the camp and experience the
unique environment of women together and alone in the wild forest. The
diversity of experience present at the camp offers a wealth of
gathered knowledge and new, fresh energy. Come join us for the second
week to delve deeper as a community of women into the confrontation of
patriarchy and the political domination of our minds and bodies.

Trainings this weekend include self-defense, climbing and knots,
surveying, strategic action planning, chainsaw use, corporate
campaigning, natural health and fertility awareness, botany and tree
ID, the sweat lodge and more.

The rains are clearing up, but come prepared with warm clothes, rain
gear and good boots. There have been a lot of bulk foods and teas
donated, but fresh produce would be a good addition to bring. Extra
blankets are needed for the sweat lodge. Drive with caution, the road
from Etna to Sawyers Bar is narrow and steep with a few unmarked sharp
switchbacks. There is no snow on the road (although several feet on
the side of the road at the summit). Dropping elevation to the camp on
the Salmon River brings warmer weather.