Oregon: First Ancient Forest Defending Tree Village of Cascadia Summer 2009
Activists from all over the country will be coming to Oregon this summer to join us in this Cascadia Summer, our season of resistance. We have numbers, we are organized and we are bringing forest defense to a BLM project near you. Our immediate message to the BLM is stop the WOPR and cancel the Fall Creek Project. We must also make clear that these are symptoms of a greater problem and if mismanagement of public lands remains the status quo, we shall continue to agitate. We invite folks out to visit the sits, or just to come to Eugene and partake in a Cascadian forest defense movement that breathes once again.
Contact 
ForestDefenseNow@gmail.com with questions or comments.
As of June 1, 2009 tree-sits have been deployed within the Fall Creek Project planning area in defiance of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) propositions to clearcut 400 acres in the area. This action is taken as an escalation of the Cascadia Summer campaign against the Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR) and corruption within the highest levels of the BLM. Perhaps the BLM will listen to these events, as they did not listen to the more than 30,000 Oregonians who filed formal protest against the WOPR.
Please value the writer & producer of these words by paying a visit to: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/391771.shtml
Read about all Direct Action forest defense here: http://forestpolicyresearch.com/tag/direct-action/
These are public lands and we will not sit back and watch the continuing devastation caused by government incompetence and corporate manipulation. As far as the economy is considered, do not be deceived, you will find no jobs on a dead planet. The WOPR, a Bush-era plan, will increase BLM logging by 436% in a time when timber prices have bottomed out. 70% of these new cuts would be clearcuts and 100,000 acres of old growth would be cut. Approximately 40,000 rural Oregonians live within one half-mile of BLM land and the security of their homes, drinking water, and local economies is under assault by this illegal plan. Boom and bust timber economics have failed and it is time for affected communities and environmentalists to move forward together toward a timber industry that can meet our mutual needs indefinitely.
Do you remember the days of Fall Creek, Warner Creek, the first Cascadia Summers? Do you remember the lands that were saved by the direct efforts of concerned citizens? We remember, and it is within that greater tradition of non-violent forest defense that we now come to you proclaiming that a resurgence has begun. As of June 1, 2009 tree-sits have been deployed within the Fall Creek Project planning area in defiance of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) propositions to clearcut 400 acres in the area.
Please value the writer & producer of these words by paying a visit to: http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/06/391771.shtml
Read about all Direct Action forest defense here: http://forestpolicyresearch.com/tag/direct-action/
There seems to be a lot of “spin words and phrases” in this document, just like our elected politicans are doing to us. Shame on the author for using such emotionalism and failing to provide quantifable, referenced and measurable “objective” and scientific based facts. { Corruption, manipulation, incompetence, etc}
If you really wish to ralley the troups to get something done … please … be objective with your communications. I am sick and tired of being treated like an idiot by Washington DC and all other Myopic manipulating game players.
aloha – i have Permaculture/EcoForestry view of clear-cut damage in forests causing “Mini- Extinctions” in every patch-cut devastated wilderness habitats. Plus spraying forests with poisons hurting people without our concent for wood products for big war economy profits.
We need to learn, educate & get court & public hearings on what ‘Mini Extinction’ is in any forest from total-logging clear-cut (TL-CC) killing most living varieties & chasing away the rest, ruining top-soil ground-covers essential for native habitat food-webs & local watershed purity. Also TL-CC causes erosion of soils taking years to decades to centuries to restore local soil fertility.
FAst growing Mono-crop tree-farms are poisonous solution to destruction of native habitats for fast profits from killing wilderness. How can we educate people consuming many forest products daily for becoming aware of these cycles of causes & effects in nature? Most people are sucking trees for wood & ruining wilderness, that needs replanting native varieties to restore Healthy Native Forest Habitat Ecology for our survival, integrity & spirit. How many school children know any of this is happening or needing help for balancing our health with Natural resources? We gotta learn how wasting paper, wood & cardboard in schools & cities is destroying of forests!