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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] TIME: Forest Defenders || Nonviolent environmental activists at work protecting national forests and wilderness areas from logging.
  • Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:54:10 -0400

TIME: Forest Defenders
<http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/2006/forest_defenders/>

Nonviolent environmental activists at work protecting national forests and
wilderness areas from logging.

Captions with each picture in the slideshow:
1)
Left: Scott, a Forest Defender. He was part of a human barricade which was dismantled, with 14 of the protesters arrested. They were trying to stop trees from being cut in the Siskiyou National Forest.
Right: Defender Joan Norman, 72, was arrested twice - the second time she
refused bail and remained in jail for 16 days.
2)
The Bush Administration has opened areas of Oregon's Siskiyou National Forest for logging, despite being sued by the governers of Oregon, Washington, New Mexico and California under the National Environmental Protection Act.
3)
Defender Gedden keeps an eye out for Forest Service activity in areas protected by the "Roadless Rule," a policy enacted by the Clinton Administration to protect 58 million acres of forest area from most logging, mining and development. But President Bush now requires states' governors to propose management plans, and the final decision to log is made by the U.S. Forest Service.
4)
Left: A Defender who goes by the alias "Puma" patrols logging roads.
Right: Logger Ray Roos makes his living by cutting down trees in the part of the Siskiyou damaged in a 2002 fire which burned across 500,000 acres.
5)
The Forest Defenders employ a variety of aggressive tactics, including road
blockades and human barricades.
6)
Forest Service agents Lee Fox and Paul Williamson examine Defender Laurel Sutherlin as he hangs from a tree blocking a bridge which provides access to roadless areas.
7)
Forest Defenders block the road on the edge of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness in southern Oregon. The area was originally designated for wildlife habitat but is now slated for logging.
8)
Logger Jeff Hammers cuts into a tree in the Siskiyou. The Bush administration has said that logging in many of these areas is part of an operation to salvage timber burned by a large forest fire in 2002, and does not violate the Roadless Rule.
9)
Logger Jeff Hammers cuts into a tree in the Siskiyou. The Bush administration has said that logging in many of these areas is part of an operation to salvage timber burned by a large forest fire in 2002, and does not violate the Roadless Rule.

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  • [permaculture] TIME: Forest Defenders || Nonviolent environmental activists at work protecting national forests and wilderness areas from logging., Lawrence F. London, Jr., 08/30/2006

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