Posted on 04/13/2002 5:45:56 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Tree Sitter Dies in Platform Fall
By Andrew Kramer Associated Press Writer Saturday, April 13, 2002; 5:37 AM
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.
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 p.m., the woman was dead, she said.
Ivan Maluski, a spokesman for the American Lands Alliance, a group involved in protesting the now-canceled 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.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., an opponent of the timber sale, announced Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service had reached an agreement to cancel the logging contract after an independent review determined the deal required significant modifications to prevent environmental harm.
At issue was the problem of blowdown, or trees not intended for logging being felled by winds on the edge of areas where cutting was planned. The Forest Service said tree sitters didn't influence the decision.
The Forest Service and the timber company, Vanport Manufacturing, agreed to cancel the deal, but tree sitters said they would remain in the woods until the final paperwork was signed.
Tree sitters live in plywood platforms attached to the upper limbs of trees slated for logging.
© 2002 The Associated Press
She decided her life was less important than DEAD WOOD ON THE GROUND.
And I might agree.
First off, sitting in a tree is man's work.
Second off, it's foolish to sit in a tree when the true cause of wilderness destruction is population growth from immigration.
She succeeded.
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Thanks to such wackos, thousands of acres of forests in many parts of the west are now dying as the bark beetle infestation is eliminating trees by the millions. This summer the authorities expect huge forest fires and the dead trees will turn to carbon. All this thanks to the Sierra Club that sued the Forest Service and made it impossible to spray and kill the beetles. Can anyone explain this kind of idiocy? Is America burning? Not yet, but soon.
Take a good look at the Darwin awards some time.
You will notice that the woman who runs the site almost never gives out an award to fellow women.
For some completely unfathomable reason.
Chuckle, chuckle, snort! Fairly punny none the less!
Now, the tree can be cut and made into something useful like a home or maybe picnic tables and benches. Then the tables and bences can be placed around the next tree of lust for these FI's! That way people can picnic and place bets on the next time that gravity and Darwin cleanse the Mother Earth of another enviral POS!
Makes you appreciate ole Darwin in action, cleansing the shallow/scummy end of the human genome pool. With, luck, this enviral POS in terminal lust for a tree never had any little green tree huggers.
Why would an enviro whackie call 911? Isn't their logic to return the earth to its natural state, which would imply nature taking its course without outside influence by the civilized world?
Let the stupid bleeptch return to nature in the stomach of some carnivore. Don't waste resources on someone who wants resource use banned.
TREE SITTING MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH
ROTFLMBO!
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