Oh man!
You can't make this stuff up!
Too funny!
WHAT????
This brute had virtually enslaved this tree, forcing it to bear his weight until it fell to the ground and died from the strain?
This is OUTRAGEOUS! I bet if you looked in his house, he even had furniture made of WOOD!
What an evil, evil man...
The sad result of tree abuse.
Well....live by the tree....die by the tree.....
I call that a twofer.
Logging Protester Killed by TreeFORTUNA, Calif. (AP) -- Officials of a logging company and an environmental group fighting its work agreed it was an accident that a protester was killed by a falling tree.
David Chain, 24, a member of Earth First!, was killed Thursday at a remote redwood logging site as he and others tried to dissuade tree fellers.
Earth First! had staged a 12-day protest against the logging of an ancient redwood stand along Grizzly Creek, in a ravine near the mill town of Fortuna, about 300 miles north of San Francisco.
Eight members were arrested Wednesday on trespassing charges. Thursday was the first day the group engaged in the more aggressive tactic they call "cat and mouse," putting their bodies in harm's way.
Pacific Lumber President John Campbell said the logging crew did not see anybody in the area and had no idea Chain, who was known as "Gypsy" by environmentalists, was standing nearby.
"They felled a tree and apparently heard some yelling, and then the feller was cutting the tree into segments when the body was found under a limb," Campbell said. He added that sheriff's investigators said Chain's death was "an unfortunate accident," and that the company would conduct its own investigation of the incident.
Earth First! spokesman Josh Brown agreed.
"We have no details and we're not assigning blame to the feller or Pacific Lumber Company or anybody," he said. "It's just a complete tragedy."
The protesters say the logging, on land adjacent to a "lesser cathedral" of centuries-old redwoods purchased under the $495 million Headwaters Agreement, is destroying the protected habitat of the marbled murrelet, an endangered sea bird that nests in the tops of the majestic trees.
The state-federal agreement would turn about 7,500 acres of Pacific Lumber forest, including 3,000 acres of old-growth redwoods, into a public preserve. Environmentalists have protested the accord, saying it should include protections for the rest of the 60,000-acre Headwaters Forest Complex.
He wanted to be one with the tree. He got his wish.
"You have failed me for the last time." -- Gaia
The rest of the trees in the country need to take a lesson from this one!
Good work tree!
Well, if you live by the tree, you die by the tree.
... from the 'you can't make this sh!t up' file...
You live by the tree; you die by the tree.
Tulsa Ents 1, Orcs 0 ping...
What are the odds of this happening and happening to a tree-hugger? Life is weird.
Live Tree or Die!
(While simultaneously throwing rotten apples at enviro-hippies swarming over the corpse of their friend.)
BRRRRAAAAGGGGHHHH!!!! YOU FILTHY, BLUNT-TOKING ECO-NUTS HAVE TRESPASSED UPON MY DOMAIN IN OZ! Build a hammock on my backside, will you?(!) YOU WILL BE KILLED BY DECREE OF TREE! MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I DON'T BREAK FOR LAWYERS!
Those dang trees can be nasty. One tried to get me, a thirty foot oak fell right on my car as I innocently drove past it. Proving only that trees are bipartisan. :-)
Regards, Ivan