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.

[BJungNan]

If a flake falls from a tree alone in the forest, does it make a sound?

They were led to believe by their leaders that they floated down and landed gently if they chanted on the way. This one just screamed so it did not work.

The tree sitting group that practices this anti-gravity spirituality is known as the Fellem Gong.

[TheBattman]

Isn't it actually illegal to block the flow of traffic on a public highway?

Those tree huggers should have been thrown in a cell to rot for a few days.

[TheBattman]

How much paper do those idiots waste sending out their group meeting announcements? I would guess that their homes have NO lumber used...or any other wood products.

[nutmeg]

Bump

[A CA Guy]

Her body should be put to good use by being left to rot and fertilize that tree.