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.
You misunderstand me. I don't have sympathy for the kid. He did something wrong. But to treat his act in isolation without holding the perps who brainwashed him for fifteen years MORE accountable for what he did is also wrong. In short, there were accomplices to his act that go scott free. In fact, I would bet that this kid is being treated as some sort of martyr in Santa Cruz classrooms today.
(Your post #56.) BTW, when you were doing what you did in your twenties did people coddle you?
No, I was a child of the San Francisco 60s. I wasn't coddled; I was brainwashed. So I think you are asking the wrong question.
And do you think that if they had, would it have made a difference? I doubt it.
Probably correct. I think homeschooling is our last refuge.
I seem to remember that a few years ago they (whoever they might be) were convinced to try an experiment with one of the dams on the Colorado River, maybe Lake Powell but I don't remember for sure. Anyway, the idea was to open the spillways for a few hours or days to mimic the natural flooding cycle that used to occur before the dams.
One of the expected benefits was that a lot of the silt that had been trapped by the dam would be let back into the river to replenish some areas downstream that had gotten too "clean" and the new silt would help the plants and animals.
I guess you've got to manage your silt very carefully.
I certainly hope the tree's okay and the Human's crashing through its branches did not inflict too much pain and suffering.
It is indeed evokative of a rather droll form of sardony, n'est ce pas?
The tree doesnt fall, therefore the tree hugger isn't emperiled.
Tree sitting in a dead/dying tree is pointless.
Tree sitting becomes a death sentence for any tree.
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It's very sad that it's gotten to this point.
I never was one for poetry, but you come up with some beauties. That's a classic.
Hmmm...I was GOING to post that it was a darned shame the guy fell out of the tree and was injured...no Darwin Award...but maybe we have another Darwin winner after all.
It's exactly the same. The thing that should concern us is that this is the product of the system from ten years ago. By the time we see the kids they are manufacturing today as young adults, I have no doubt that you will see suicide missions among them.
Consider the Church of Euthanisia. Their motto? Suicide, Abortion, Cannibalism, Sodomy.
You do these things because you're a wonderful person. A ton of prevention for a pound of cure. Unfortunately this is our cross to bear.
BTW, I gave your book to Jan, who we flew out to join the convoy as our Florida liason. He's now riding state to state with a copy of your book in hand.
I was talking with Mr. Walley about you, he thinks you're a golden guy and is reading your book as well. Call me up when you get a chance.
Nah...they picked the erosion thing up off these threads, probably. We have been talking about the soil erosion caused by massive wildfires, burning hot enough to match the heat on the surface of the sun and actually burn dirt being a cause of massive soil erosion...
Responsible logging as a part of timber or forest management causes no such erosion.
In my book, Natural Process: That Environmental Laws May Serve the Laws of Nature, I propose a silt market and show how it might work.
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