Activists train to live in trees to halt Bush logging plans

Detroit News ^ | July 19, 2003 | Mark Matthews

[fightinJAG]

HUGHES CREEK CAMPGROUND, Mont. -- David Muller hunkered down and watched as an instructor tied a timber hitch around three 20-foot logs. Soon Muller would be practicing knot tying himself, and compass reading and tree climbing. The 56-year-old bookseller from Alaska was in training, not as an outdoorsman but as a political activist.

[Noumenon]

A big, hairy, nasty-smelling one, but a squirrel nontheless. And that's one of the females.

[GladesGuru]

What about allowing a hungry pine martin a chance to snack on grainola fed freak? The animal possibilities are endless. Even S. American tree vipers might be useful.

This could be a source of employment for out of work biologists. Put that way (Job Corps for Biologists!) the Libs might even sign on.

And think of the free market implications - one can easily imagine a Whack-Em-Out corporation competing with Wackenhut for tree clearing jobs. I refer, of course to clearing the trees of freaks, not cutting the trees.

[winner3000]

My thoughts exactly.

[hattend]

BTTT

[hattend]

They know that some critics refer to them as "eco-terrorists" but say they do not want violence. "We're peaceful people," said Tamara Avery, a member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians of Oregon. "We're peaceful people, here to protect the Earth."

Yeah, sure, whatever....

[Calvin Locke]

My sentiments too, but might I suggest places where all those black bears can be temporarily relocated?

Then, after these criminals and terrorists have repented, one way or another, a hunting season on black bears.

[CyberAnt]

ROTFLOL! These people are really desperate.

[Bon mots]

Primates in trees??

No problemo.

[FreeInWV]

I wish they came around here. I would love firing up my Homelite at 3AM just to see look on their face when they jumped out of the tree.

Tossing water out of a gascan all over the tree trunk and playing with my Zippo might be fun too.

[sasquatch]

The standard measure to establish the size of a tree that can and should be cut is to hug it.
If your fingers touch on the far side, paint it, log it
(no pun intended[actually it is intended]) and go find another.

[Navy Patriot]

Nonetheless--the correct response to these tree-sitters is to go in and cut down all the trees except the one they are sitting in, go away until they climb down in disgust, and then come back and cut THAT one down.

Yep, and be sure to "ring" the sitters tree with the saw also. These watermellons use the tactic that it is unsafe to cut the trees they are in or near them because they might be harmed. Ringing is safe and finishes the tree, thus making all the watermellon training and activity fruitless (sort of).

[Old Professer]

[meadsjn]

We keep a large supply of cheap #8's for tree-climbing creatures on this side of the highway.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Cut a few down with the stupid activists in them and the rest will become believers in lobbying.

[fightinJAG]

Your entreprenurial spirit is showing!

Typical conservative, eh! LOL

[nwconservative]

Sue Greenpeace the sh-- on my head