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Tree-sitter injured in fall from redwood
Santa Cruz Sentinel ^
| 10/9/02
| MICHAEL DE GIVE
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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: environment; salmon; timber; treesitters
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To: Carry_Okie
"Darwin death ping", indeed!
To: Arkinsaw; Carry_Okie
A "lady" (or at least a previously female human) fell from another redwood last year too.
Trees 2
Liberals 0
To: bfree
TFB. It is not society's job to protect the stupid from themselves. There are far greater problems. It seems to me he died in the commission of a crime-trespassing on private property. Hopefully, falling out of trees becomes the norm for these fools. Ban Gravity! Do it for the tree-sitters!!!!!
To: Boot Hill
Yeah, he went down Earth First! so to speak.
Urth First! Santa Cruz got rid of that gif I was so fond of.
Gotta find it.
To: Carry_Okie
Let's see here:
5 specialists (figure a paid salary of 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 each),
Plus overhead costs that double the actual pay,
Plus one-three bureacrats/admin types for the 5 at 40,000.00
PLus trucks and supplies and laboratory fees and field support of easily 100,000.00 per year ...
Researching this natural "mud" in one county in one state "for the nature lovin' enviro's (and the universities they live on) each year probably costs the remaining taxpayers over 1,000,000.00 dollars annually.
To: Carry_Okie
The local judges won't give property owners permission to bring them down and the Sheriff's Department won't do it either. Judges won't give property owners permission to remove the trespassing tree sitters?
Sheriff's department won't remove the trespassing tree sitters?
Doesn't that mean the judge and sheriffs are neglecting their sworn duties to uphold the laws? Couldn't they be sued for dereliction of duties and held accountable for the damages?
To: Carry_Okie
To: Carry_Okie
Sheriff's Department won't do it either.We have a new sheriff in Humboldt County and he has already make some arrest for PL. They still have 2 sitters on Freshwater Creek about 12 miles east of Eureka.
BTW...I was down viviting my sister in Soquel early last week. Went to the farmers market and also picked up some saltwater taffy on the Wharf.
To: Carry_Okie
Hold my cappacino bump.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Researching this natural "mud" in one county in one state "for the nature lovin' enviro's (and the universities they live on) each year probably costs the remaining taxpayers over 1,000,000.00 dollars annually. WAYYYY under budget. Cartographers for the GIS layout, regulations to be drafted (Santa Cruz drafted the blueprint for the whole State, and after California it just gets replicated), new grading regulations, policies and procedures to write for each profession, training for all the inspectors and planners, new timber harvest regulations to pass, foresters to interpret them... all brought to you by the IUCN.
It's a gift that keeps on giving. Then consider the lost opportunity and what happens when there is a fire.
To: Frohickey
Doesn't that mean the judge and sheriffs are neglecting their sworn duties to uphold the laws? Couldn't they be sued for dereliction of duties and held accountable for the damages? In California?
To: Frohickey
Doesn't that mean the judge and sheriffs are neglecting their sworn duties to uphold the laws? Couldn't they be sued for dereliction of duties and held accountable for the damages?I know of no sheriffs dept that employs a tree climer. That is left to the timber co to decide if it is worth the risk to send their climer to take down these criminals. PL has done it on occasion. They have a new manager up here and he talks tough.
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Remember it well.
To: Carry_Okie
"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."
Thank you for reminding me why I have no sympathy for them when they fall down and go boom. I think they have abandoned the practice, but Earth First! used to put lethal spikes in trees hoping to injure or kill an unsuspecting logger or millworker.
To: tubebender
Big Creek has done it down here before. They just found an abandoned platform with death threats to the landowner painted on it. Bud happens to be one of the finest timber owners in the world.
Truly sick.
To: garden variety
I think they have abandoned the practice, but Earth First! used to put lethal spikes in trees hoping to injure or kill an unsuspecting logger or millworker. IIRC Earth Liberation Front still does it and they use ceramic spikes (undetectable to a magnetic sensor).
To: Carry_Okie
I think I told you I met Bud years ago when my brother had the mail run up Swanton Road from Davenport.
To: Frohickey
Judges won't give property owners permission to remove the trespassing tree sitters?
Judge Younts issued an order that essentially prohibited the landowner from any activity that might harm the sitter(s). Although disgusting to those who believe in the rule of law, it was probably a reasonable decision. (Flames here...)
To: tubebender
By AlGore I dimly recall that you did!
(Please forgive my filthy language.)
To: Carry_Okie
A tree-sitter protesting logging in the slopes above Ramsey Creek fell 50 feet from his redwood perch and onto a stump Tuesday night.
If he hit a stump the trees were too tight in the first place! (Still looking for validation of the rumored croak)
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