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OCCUPY THE TREES!
The trees are being Occupied. In downtown Eugene and out in the Goose Timber Sale,
near the town of McKenzie Bridge, activists are “occupying the trees” as part of a
“worldwide environmental protest against corporate and personal greed,” spurred by
Occupy Eugene and the Cascadia Forest Defenders (CFD).
The weeklong arboreal action, April 22- 27, has three main points, the groups say: to
seek “immediate attention and
Occupying a tree
reversal to global climate change,
in downtown
which threatens all life on Earth,”
Eugene
to protest “disruption of the Earth-
destroying profit machines led by
the richest 1 percent of the world
and their government lackeys”
and “ending commercial extraction
from publicly held conservation
lands in all nations.”
The downtown treesit went up
April 22 in the Park Blocks — the
first Occupy Eugene location
— accompanied by speakers,
music, teach-ins and food.
More “Earth defense activities
are planned in Eugene throughout
the week,” organizers say,
featuring speakers, musical
performances, marches and rallies.
“Cascadia Day,” “Animal Rights
Day” and “Kids Day” were
celebrated during the first half of
the week. Thursday, April 26, is
“Eco-feminism Day,” and April 27
wraps up the week with “Global
Climate Change Awareness Day.”
Also on Earth Day, April 22,
PHOTO BY DUSK WINSTON
the Cascadia Forest Defenders
erected a treesit in the “Golden” portion of the Goose Timber Sale. The sit is in an
approximately 150-year-old Douglas fir tree. CFD says the treesitter is Echo Glynn of
Elmira, who used to visit McKenzie Bridge as a child.
The Goose Timber Sale has come under fire for what local residents say is a lack of
notification of the intended logging by the Forest Service and for the “heavy thinning” that
CFD says is more indicative of “industrial logging practices” and “making timber quotas
than creating habitat.”
“We are calling for the immediate withdrawal of the proposed sale, and a moratorium on
all logging operations on public forest in the McKenzie Bridge,” the CFD tree Occupiers say.
The Goose Timber Sale was auctioned off on April 24 to Seneca Jones Timber two days
after the treesit was put up. CFD members and others protested the sale at the Forest
Service office in Springfield.
Daniel Bowman of CFD says the Goose sale borders, and possibly overlaps with,
another timber sale, the Horse Creek sale, which could mean the logging would have even
more impact in the area.
CFD invites the public for a picnic with the treesitter and a hike of the timber sale on
Saturday, April 28. CFD says to attend the picnic, meet at noon at Harbicks on Hwy. 126,
6 miles past Blue River For more information go to forestdefensenow.com and www.
occupythetrees.org
— Camilla Mortensen
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