[boris]

"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."

Let us count the environmental crimes here. The cell phone is made of metal (torn from the helpless virgin earth by evil, loud machines burning hydrocarbons and emitting CO2 and other pollutants), plastics (made by evil chemical companies like DuPont), and semiconductors [made with Silane (SiH) and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), which are highly toxic and unnatural]. The batteries in the cell phones are made with other metals, such as nickel and cadmium, and cause problems if cast away into evil land-fills at the end of their useful life.

The emergency team arrived, no doubt, in a vehicle powered by an internal-combustion engine, belching greenhouse gases and smoke. It rode on synthetic rubber tires, another product of the evil chemical industry, and themselves composed of hydrocarbons obtained by pumping oil from the domain of the caribou. The medical instruments, drugs, and other equipment are--to say the least--not earth-friendly.

And so on. This fellow--the one who is guilty of wanton cell-phone use--should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors in the first Ecological Court that can be convened...

--Boris

[Arkie2]

Not to mention the plant life she killed when she hit.

[Tennessee_Bob]

You forgot a crime, Boris - and perhaps a motive.

Tree sitters live in plywood platforms attached to the upper limbs of trees slated for logging.

I think we need an investigation to determine whether the plywood was made from a tree related to the tree that she fell from. If so, then it's possible that she didn't just fall from the tree - but was dumped from the platform, made of wood that came from the brother or sister of that tree...