Posted on 10/09/2002 7:15:56 PM PDT by 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.
Yep, for sure he was a Democrat. Problem is that in California he'll be voting that way for the next 150 years.
However, only redwoods on the Messed Coast have nuts.
I hadn't heard that the hippie died.
The weird thing is that there is another guy in a tree not far from there, and California thinks this is nothing unusual. It's on private property. A trespasser is living in a tree on private property.
It's a whole different mindset.
Sorry to hear he's dead, they could have billed him for the helicopter.
My sympathy to his family.
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I know for a fact that if that was my property, and I had a logging permit in hand, that other tree would be where my chainsaw and I would be headed first thing in the morning. (Along with my M-14.) And if I couldn't find that particular tree, I'd just start dropping ALL OF THEM until these EarthFirst @ssholes decided to do something. Then the M-14 gets used. Witnesses? I don't think so.
Not all trees are evil. Some only kill Kennedy's.
Gravity Works
The invocation "gravity works" is a shorthand I came up with years ago.
It means: A thing that is, just is. You can't explain it away. You can't argue that it violates some theory. You can't condemn it as heresy and disappear it.
Gravity doesn't care what you think of it. It doesn't care whether you think of it. It doesn't care if you disagree with it. It doesn't care whether you know about it. Ignorance and opinion hold no sway. It is impartial and unforgiving.
It is also shorthand for "what you think doesn't change what is."
It is shorter than invoking the laws of thermodynamics, or mass-energy conservation, and it scans better.
-- GarryHamilton
Or as Philip K. Dick put it: Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. (see BeliefsCreateReality)
Also, Batty said "Gravity Works!" while falling out of a tree in Ferngully: The Last Rainforest
If you had a Timber Harvest Permit (logging permit) in hand in California you would need a Licensed Timber Operator to cut them or face a $25,000 fine. The LTO wouldn't risk his chainsaw on that tree. The sitters have spotters and cell-phones to call for help. Some have video. The local judges won't give property owners permission to bring them down and the Sheriff's Department won't do it either.
You were saying?
Sounds just like Werner Erhard in 1975!
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