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  • It's about to really cut loose here (vanity)

    10/26/2026 7:20:13 AM PDT · by eastexsteve · 49 replies
    self | 10/26/2026 | self
    In my part of Texas, oil, gas, and timber drives the economy. I made an observation in a family meeting yesterday that it's really starting to break loose here. The local RV parks that are usually empty during the week, are filling up with oilfield workers. The oil and gas personnel that I know who are involved in site prep are working overtime. My son-in-law is one, and he is now working 36 hour shifts. I've been holding off doing a thinning cutting on one of my timber tracts because the price has been so low. But, last week my...
  • Tree-sitting activist finds another perch (yup, Ferret again)

    04/29/2003 1:48:26 PM PDT · by Clinging Bitterly · 68 replies · 357+ views
    www.registerguard.com | © The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon April 29, 2003 Tree-sitting activist finds another perch Activist Mike McCarthy is up a tree again, this time in front of the Shelton-McMurphey-Johnson House near downtown Eugene. A week ago Monday, he took up residence in a sweetgum tree slated for removal by the nonprofit organization that runs the historic home and museum, which is near Skinner Butte at Third Avenue and Willamette Street. The city gave the group permission to cut down five trees in order to return the home and its landscaping to its late 1800s to early 1900s condition,...