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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.

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?

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?

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.

"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.

"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."

I was saying that if I had the logging permit, in this case I'd get my damn license to be a timber operator if I were in the forestry business to start with (as this company obviously is). I guess I should have been more specific in a tactical sense, but if it came down to clearing the forests of these scumbags there wouldn't be any cell phone calls. They tree sit and have their logistics on schedules. Pretty simple affair for a recon to establish routines, and these leftists aren't used to having experienced infantry in the woods actively hunting them. Suppressed .308 goes a long way. Like I said, if it were my property......I'm on 220 acres of forest right now, and am quite aware as to what goes on here - even during hunting season - and the back 90 acres aren't even fenced. This isn't really all that hypothetical to me. I'm thankful not to have to put up with California's communist system where private land is everyone's.

"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."

True. Leave the cutting thinning of treehuggers out of our forests to the licensed professionals <G>

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.