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Tree Sitter Dies In Platform Fall
AP via Newsday ^
| April 13,2002
| Andrew Kramer
Posted on 04/13/2002 3:46:11 AM PDT by John W
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:17 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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.
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posted on
04/13/2002 3:46:11 AM PDT
by
John W
To: John W
A Darwin candidate?
2
posted on
04/13/2002 3:50:25 AM PDT
by
chainsaw
To: John W
"Activists protested burying the woman's body in a cemetery since it was a waste of precious environmental resources..." /sarcasm
3
posted on
04/13/2002 3:58:54 AM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: Bush2000
Hopefully, she'll be composted.
I think it is awful you are making light of this woman's death.
4
posted on
04/13/2002 4:00:22 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
To: John W
One should mourn the passing of this Red Headed Woodpecker, an environmentally protected species. Her contribution to society, i.e. falling out of the tree, is greatly appreciated.
5
posted on
04/13/2002 4:16:33 AM PDT
by
Movemout
To: John W
If a flake falls from a tree alone in the forest, does it make a sound?
To: John W
The Forest Service and the timber company Vanport ManufacturingGet ready for a nasty lawsuit
Of course it's your fault. You made her sit in a tree on a wooden platform 150 feet in the air.< / sarcasm >
Gravity is a real pain in the you know what.
7
posted on
04/13/2002 4:21:31 AM PDT
by
JZoback
To: AppyPappy
I think it is awful you are making light of this woman's death.
Light? Nah. Gravity works.
8
posted on
04/13/2002 4:24:57 AM PDT
by
Bush2000
To: John W
"Hey, tree happens..."
To: Bush2000
Gravity does work. Darwin was right too.
To: Former Proud Canadian
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posted on
04/13/2002 4:45:17 AM PDT
by
kcvl
To: John W
I respect and honor the 'tree sitter' who died while following her conscience. It is easy to carp, but it takes character to put yourself on the line.
To: kcvl
Seeing that guitar picker in one of your pics made me wonder how many choruses of "Kumbaya" they sang during the three years.
To: John W
Tree sitters live in plywood platforms attached to the upper limbs of trees slated for logging. How many trees die to make their platforms?
14
posted on
04/13/2002 5:40:05 AM PDT
by
JMK
To: John W
natural selection?
15
posted on
04/13/2002 5:41:02 AM PDT
by
Khepera
To: John W
There IS a God...and He has a sense of humor.
16
posted on
04/13/2002 5:41:30 AM PDT
by
boris
To: boris
Any guesses on what the tox screen will show when they do the autopsy?.....
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posted on
04/13/2002 5:43:10 AM PDT
by
ken5050
To: kcvl
In picture #4, what are they doing? Practicing TLF's? (Tree Landing Falls)
To: kcvl
Bad engineering. Plus, is that
plastic I see forming the "roof" of the platform?...Evil plastic, spawn of evil chemical corporations?...
No wonder it fell down.
--Boris
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posted on
04/13/2002 5:43:50 AM PDT
by
boris
To: John W
She might have made it had someone been able to build a logging road into the region. "Hoist by her own petard ..."
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posted on
04/13/2002 5:43:52 AM PDT
by
Junior
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