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McMINNVILLE - Retired Air Force Maj. Wes Carter could probably use a lesson or two from anti-war protesters. The disabled Gulf War veteran had hoped to get arrested this week to show his anger at giant new billboards proposed in McMinnville. To accomplish this, he planned to block the doorway to Pogy's Sub Sandwiches, one of five businesses that have signed leases for the billboards. Nobody would arrest him. ``The police said I could stay out here all day if I wanted to,'' he said. Carter was largely responsible for his own inability to get arrested. He chose to protest...

FRESHWATER, Calif. - Though she has spent the past five months living 130 feet up an ancient redwood, Remedy - as the young woman calls herself during these days as a tree sitter - is hardly lonely. People stop by all the time. On Saturday afternoon, when she rappelled about 100 feet down the bulky trunk of the 1,200-year-old tree to talk to a reporter, six supporters happened by, including a couple from down the road who brought two gallons of water, a phone buddy bearing bananas and peaches, and a local environmentalist and two friends from Berkeley who came...

Forest defenders in southern Oregon have taken the struggle to save Peak to the next level. People are now occupying treesits to make a stand for some of the last remaining native forests in Oregon. The Mazama Forest Defenders take action to resist the Peak timber sale, the replacement volume program, and the continued destruction of our last native forests. Activists are occupying tree-sits in the Peak timber sale to resist the imminent logging of this ecologically important native forest. The construction of platforms high in the canopy of trees marked for cutting follows a multi-faceted grassroots campaign to end...

Groups sue in defense of bull trout By SCOTT MABEN The Register-Guard   Recommend this story to others.   Four conservation groups are suing the federal government to stop old growth logging in the Willamette National Forest that they say will harm the bull trout, which is listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The groups contend that construction of logging roads and the harvest of 200-year-old trees in the Middle Fork Ranger District would cause erosion that fouls streams to the detriment of bull trout in the upper reaches of the Middle Fork of the Willamette River. Cascade Resources...