Tree Sitter Dies In Platform Fall

AP via Newsday ^ | April 13,2002 | Andrew Kramer

[John W]

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A tree sitter in the Mount Hood National Forest died after falling 150 feet from a tree she was trying to protect from logging.

In a sad twist, the sale of timber the woman was protesting had been canceled three days before her death on Friday.

Local rescue crews struggled up snow-clogged dirt roads to reach the tree sitters' camp in the Eagle Creek wilderness area, east of Portland, after a fellow activist called 9-1-1 on a cell phone at about 7 p.m., Clackamas County Sheriff's spokeswoman Angela Blanchard said.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Those are trees? Better give um some water Val.

[Cloud William]

"Death to the tree!"??! Heck, NO! Someone oughta bronze that noble tree, finally free of its parasite! Oh, wait... ;-)

[catpuppy]

Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, bouncy , bouncy, woooooo-ooo-woo

Like a rubber ball I come bouncing back to ... earth

[Cloud William]

There she was, on a branch,
suddenly, she bought the ranch,
a screeching sound she did make,
this species, called a flake

LOL! I hope it's easy to find words that rhyme with the deceased's name. Bet she was a vegan, too. Based on that thought, her epitaph should read something like:

Here lies the body of our Anna
Done to death by a banana
It wasn't the fruit that laid her low
But the skin of the thing that made her go.

[connectthedots]

Is OSHA going to investigate possible violations of tree-sitting regulations and place a moratorium on tree-sitting until safety standards are implimented? This is the second tree-sitter to die in the last year.

[xfmrman]

Was that a Redwood Peckerhead or was that a Redhead Peckerwood?

[Busywhiskers]

Probably a University of Oregon grad.

[Denver Ditdat]

...after a fellow activist called 9-1-1 on a cell phone at about 7 p.m

911? Was there no Druid Shaman available? No Sprit Healer? Could no one have applied a poultice brewed up of local herbs?

Huh. I would have thought that "back to earth" remedies would be the first thing this crowd would try. Have they no faith?

[Fintan]

Any guesses on what the tox screen will show when they do the autopsy?.....

Y'know, I was all set to post something along the lines of having respect for the dead.

Then I read your reply and started laughing uncontrollably.

[tillacum]

Val, are those bluebonnets in the foreground, and mesquite in the background?

[Free Trapper]

As I recall,earlier this week on another thread,Sungirl threatened to jump off a building because it would be time for her to die if you started hunting.Did you...uh....?

[albee]

Re: Your Post #56

Funny!

FUNNY!

FUNNY!

[albee]

Re: Your Post #100

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAH...HA-HA-HA Ho-Ho Snort, Snort!

Stop it, you are killing me!

[BullDog108]

Well they finally ID'ed the Darwin Nominee:

Tragedy at Eagle Creek

Beth O'Brien (I am not making this up....)

[Temple Owl]

Good post! Bump!

[sweetliberty]

Ping...that's 1.

[sweetliberty]

Oops...here's the first one...or is it second? I'm so confused.

[poet]

Very nice. Cloud. BTW, lest anyone think I'm cold, let it be known that I reserve my sorrow for children who go to bed hungery, children who are abused, women who are raped, soldiers who die in battle.

I have no sorrow for someone who perches 15 stories high without bracing, eco-terrorists, people who "spike" trees (which they claim to love) people who destroy jobs to save a snail darter, whose natural life span is maybe 2 weeks.
I also have no sorrow for the homicide bombers. Killing soldiers in battle is one thing, murdering civilians is quite another.

[M Kehoe]

I tried my best not to laugh at the posts on this thread.

Really I did.

LOL!

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