Earth First! Humboldt

A Spotted Owl nest is within the clear-cut portion of unit A.

THP# 1-08-155 - “McKay 2010″
The yellow circle represents a 1,000 ft. radius around the Spotted Owl nest.
The reddish patches were recently clear-cut.
Darker areas are patches of larger trees.
Yellow polygons: areas to be logged under this plan.
Red line: Ryan Creek (West)- Freshwater Creek (East) [...]

The tree sitter you see in this video is hanging around 90 ft. in the air from a traverse rope that stretches 200+ ft. between two large trees. The banner reads, “Hey Green Diamond, STOP Clear-cutting - Earth First!”
The action began on Dec. 2nd to bring attention to the clear-cut logging plan that will [...]

No offense, but the story on the McKay Tract logging and development protests on Eurekas Channel 3 news on Friday night was full of factual errors.
(Click here to see the show.The story on the McKay Tract protests starts at 6:05 on the video timeline.)
The following numbered quotes are transcriptions of news anchor Rissa Shaw. See [...]

To Neal Ewald of the Green Diamond Resource Company,
We were surprised to read in the North Coast Journal that you are interested in hearing our concerns with your companies logging practices. We’ve written this letter to express these concerns.
Earth First! and other forest defenders in Humboldt County have long been opposed to the following;
• Old-Growth [...]

Photo Update: Visit this web album to see higher quality pictures of the banner.
Tree-sitters unfurled a large 30 ft. wide banner this morning on the edge of the great Redwood forest, east of Eureka, Ca. The banner reads “Hey Green Diamond, Stop Clear-cutting -Earth First!”. The sitters remain aloft and are occupying several large second [...]