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Earth First (Gravity second?) tree sitter plunges from tree
http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/4737827p-5752841c.html ^

Posted on 10/10/2002 12:23:47 PM PDT by BurbankKarl

CORRALITOS, Calif.(AP) - A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! has died after a 50-foot fall from a redwood tree in which he'd lived for several weeks.

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1 posted on 10/10/2002 12:23:48 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl
What a great title for your post!
2 posted on 10/10/2002 12:25:12 PM PDT by FreeTheHostages
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To: BurbankKarl; mykdsmom; Phantom Lord
Earth First (Gravity second?) tree sitter plunges from tree

It's not the falling.
It's that sudden stopping that always gets ya.

3 posted on 10/10/2002 12:26:25 PM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: BurbankKarl
I suppose now they will sue the loggers for irresponsively letting the tree grow dangerously high...
4 posted on 10/10/2002 12:26:27 PM PDT by battlecry
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To: BurbankKarl
                  Archived for your protection...
 

                  Tree-sitter dead after fall from tree in Corralitos

                  The Associated Press
                  Published 11:35 a.m. PDT Thursday, October 10, 2002

                  CORRALITOS, Calif.(AP) - A man with the environmental activist group Earth First!
                  has died after a 50-foot fall from a redwood tree in which he'd lived for several weeks.

                  Rescue personnel were called to the scene of a logging operation in the Ramsey Gulch
                  area about 20-miles south of San Jose on Tuesday night after loggers heard moans
                  coming from the area where a group of tree-sitters has been camped since August, the
                  group said. It was unclear how long the injured man had been on the ground.

                  It took workers a half-hour to hike to the scene. The man, who was believed to have a
                  broken arm and leg, was transported by helicopter to a San Jose hospital.

                  The Santa Clara County Coroner's Office confirmed Thursday morning the man was
                  dead, but said he had not been identified.

                  Earth First! said the man had been sitting on a platform in the tree for several weeks.
                  Apparently he had spent time in forests of Northern California, but the group said he
                  never had tree sat before.

                  Earth First! activists have protested logging operations by San Jose-based Redwood
                  Empire in the Ramsey Gulch area for more than two years. Although protesters and the
                  logging company have been at odds at times, Redwood Empire issued a statement
                  Wednesday saying its employees were saddened by the death.

                  Tree sitters can spend months camped on platforms in old-growth trees, hoping to call
                  attention to the environmental effects of logging. In perhaps the most famous incident,
                  Julia "Butterfly" Hill spent two years 180 feet up a 1,000-foot redwood in Northern
                  California to save it from being cut down for lumber.

                  She came down in 1999 after Pacific Lumber Co. agreed to leave the tree standing in
                  return for $50,000 to make up for lost logging revenue.

5 posted on 10/10/2002 12:26:42 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: BurbankKarl
If a tree hugger falls in the forest and no one is around to hear him, did he still make a sound when he hit?
6 posted on 10/10/2002 12:26:54 PM PDT by Deguello
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To: BurbankKarl
Did he bounce, Uncle Lar?
7 posted on 10/10/2002 12:29:48 PM PDT by mhking
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To: BurbankKarl
Isn't this the second time an environut fell and died in the past year?
8 posted on 10/10/2002 12:29:53 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Deguello
Whadya wanna bet we didn't pay for his hospital bill and emergency services fees? I have no tollerance for these fools.
9 posted on 10/10/2002 12:30:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: BurbankKarl
That's Evil Trees: 2, Tree Huggers: 0. Here's another brainiac. She gets more points for being 150' up.
10 posted on 10/10/2002 12:30:10 PM PDT by lelio
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To: lelio
                       Peace News Site

                       17-Apr-2002

                        Tree sitter dies in platform fall

                        by: Andrew Kramer and Cascadia Forest Alliance

                        Oregon, Unites States: Beth O'Brien, a tree sitter with the Cascadia Forest Alliance, died after falling 150 feet from a tree she
                        was trying to protect from logging in the Mount Hood National Forest east of Portland, Oregon. In a sad twist, the sale of timber
                        the woman was protesting had been cancelled three days before her death on 12 April.

                        Local rescue crews struggled up snow-clogged dirt roads to reach the tree sitters' camp in the Eagle Creek wilderness area after a
                        fellow activist called for help from a cell phone at about 7.00 pm, Clackamas County Sheriff's spokeswoman Angela Blanchard
                        said.

                        The caller said the woman, who authorities did not immediately identify, was badly hurt and unconscious but still breathing,
                        Blanchard said. By the time rescue crews arrived at about 9.30 pm, the woman was dead, said Blanchard.

                        Ivan Maluski, a spokesman for the American Lands Alliance, a group involved in protesting the now-cancelled Eagle Creek sale,
                        said tree sitters were days away from leaving the site after a three-year vigil.

                        "People literally are waiting for the ink to dry (on the cancellation deal). Probably we're going to be packing up and leaving this
                        week, assuming it is signed," Maluski said.

                        At a press conference on 13 April, a spokesperson from the Cascadia Forest Alliance said that they “view Beth's death in a
                        tradition of courageous action to defend life that extends through decades of nonviolent protest in the US and abroad.”

                        A candlelight vigil was held in Beth's memory at Mt. Tabor City Park on 14 April at sunset.

11 posted on 10/10/2002 12:34:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: 1Old Pro
Isn't this the second time an environut fell and died in the past year?

Yes, but more in tune with the season this time.


12 posted on 10/10/2002 12:35:55 PM PDT by steveo
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13 posted on 10/10/2002 12:36:20 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Deguello
I wonder if the IDIOT was sitting on a platform made of the evil wood????
14 posted on 10/10/2002 12:44:40 PM PDT by goose1
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To: BurbankKarl
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15 posted on 10/10/2002 12:52:46 PM PDT by cake_crumb
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To: goose1
OOOOOOOOOOOOOh, GOOD POINT!!!

So much for safety harnesses heh?

16 posted on 10/10/2002 1:00:13 PM PDT by KineticKitty
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To: BurbankKarl
Funny headline, I must admit. But not a funny story. Some of these enviros get on my nerves. But the peaceable ones are generally decent folk, if wrong-headed. God bless the poor fellow and his family.
17 posted on 10/10/2002 1:02:05 PM PDT by ArcLight
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To: BurbankKarl
Gravity is a very patient adversary.
18 posted on 10/10/2002 1:02:39 PM PDT by Jack of all Trades
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To: steveo
Yes, but more in tune with the season this time.

Redwoods are evergreen.

19 posted on 10/10/2002 1:05:57 PM PDT by The_Victor
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To: BurbankKarl
Maybe he was in a race to see who could get to the Earth First!
20 posted on 10/10/2002 1:08:43 PM PDT by Jack Wilson
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