[garden variety]

"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.

[Carry_Okie]

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).