Tree-sitter injured in fall from redwood

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | 10/9/02 | MICHAEL DE GIVE

[Carry_Okie]

Tree-sitter injured in fall from redwood

By MICHAEL DE GIVE
Sentinel STAFF WRITER

CORRALITOS — A tree-sitter protesting logging in the slopes above Ramsey Creek fell 50 feet from his redwood perch and onto a stump Tuesday night.

The man was believed to have fractured an arm and leg in the fall. The steep terrain and gravel roads forced rescue workers to leave their vehicles and hike more than half an hour to get to the scene, said Dave Sumner, a senior emergency dispatcher.

An air ambulance was waiting nearby about 9 p.m. Tuesday as rescuers carried the injured man back down the densely wooded hill. The fall was reported at 7:12 p.m.

Earth First! Santa Cruz spokesman Dennis Davie confirmed two of its members have been living in redwoods since August in the 150-acre, second-growth forest owned by Redwood Empire, a San Jose-based logging company. The company, owned by Roger Burch, owns hundreds of acres in Santa Cruz County.

The group says the erosion caused by logging the property pollutes Ramsey Creek, which feeds into both Browns and Corralitos creeks, all habitat to threatened steelhead trout.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and American Medical Response responded to the incident.

The forest is near Mount Madonna off Hazel Dell Road.

Contact Michael de Give atmdegive@santa-cruz.com.

[cake_crumb]

"That's called background erosion, or bedload. The bureaucrats routinely grossly under-estimate bedload so that they can set attainment targets that can't be met. It keeps them in business forever."

Yep...I've got firsthand experience of that.

[justsomedude]

now just who does a tree sitter sue? Mother nature?

[Zon]

It was the tree sitter that initiated force when he trespassed. Self-defense force used to remove the tree sitter would be defend ones own property rights. Judge Yonts wilfully violated the property owner's rights while catering to the criminal.

[Zon]

wilfully = willfully

[cake_crumb]

"303(d)TMDLs are working their way into all fifty states via NRDC lawsuits."

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[lavaroise]

I think this qualifies as a darwin award. Those red wood trees are indeed smarter than leftists and enviro wackos think.

[rockfish59]

I wonder if he landed on their roof?

[Carry_Okie]

Well, you've got me stumped.

[MortMan]

I'd be willing to bet that the fall didn't hurt this guy. It was the sudden stop at the end of it!:-)

[rockfish59]

Glass-clinking lawyers!

[rockfish59]

I guess he forgot this tongue twister!

TIE TWINE TO THREE TREE TWIGS!

[Carry_Okie]

BLLLLLECCCCHHHHH!!!

Well, this thread was going way too long, so I guess that's an appropriate way to kill it.

[mad_as_he$$]

Should of let him just sit and decay back to his normal state of dust....

[Destructor]

Does this candidate qualify for a Darwin award?

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[Frohickey]

If the judge ordered the lumber company to not forcibly remove them, how about if the judge issued an arrest warrant for the tree-sitters?

Seems fair to me. They could get served with the arrest warrant pretty easily.

[Lurker]

" Fine locked his arm in a box in the car and it took workers five hours to get him out. "

It would have taken me and my chainsaw about 20 seconds.......

L

[editor-surveyor]

"now just who does a tree sitter sue? Mother nature?"

This is who they can sue

[holyscroller]

Too bad you can't cut your own trees even with a permit. I was thinking that would have been a perfect time to start harvesting them while the unwashed hauled their stupid buddy off to the hospital.

[Carry_Okie]

Too bad you can't cut your own trees even with a permit.

You can cut your own trees as long as the material is to be used on your own property. You can send it out for milling, or have it milled on site. Such harvests are not considered commercial.