Earth First! Humboldt

The Salmonberry bushes are beginning to flower.

Looking across to another tree sit from a comfy perch, a long tyrolean traverse fades into the distance. The water bottle is set up to catch rainwater.

A small creek cascades through ancient logs.

Trilliums are flowering.

The kitchen is all tied in.

In the tree-village today, an activist on the ground approached a recently lowered climbing rope to find it severed and a carabiner stolen off of the end of the rope. The thief/saboteur also took a rain poncho. There is strong reason believe it was a Green Diamond employee. This marks an increase in aggression by [...]

I called up one of the tree-villagers this morning to see how the crew is faring in the storm.
“Suns out, a little bit of drizzle and the wind stopped,” reported “S” from her nest in a 120+ year old Redwood that she has been occupying for quite some time.
“Did everyone stay dry last night?” [...]

EF!ers in Humboldt are increasingly busy as the potential start-up of logging approaches. The first windy rain storms of the year are here but we are in our element and thriving. We could not do this without the widespread community suppport we have recieved. Large amounts of food and climbing gear have been donated. Community [...]

Green Diamond may begin cutting the “McKay 09″ logging plan in one month on Feb 15th. Earth First!ers have been recieving a lot of help both locally and from across the continent and more people are joining the effort to defend this forest. We are all volunteers and this could not be done without community [...]