Freshwater Slideshow

Slideshow video of Freshwater Tree-sits in Humboldt County's Oldgrowth Redwood Forest. Produced by We Save Trees, the images were taken by several photographers. The slideshow set to a song written about the freshater tree-sits.

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Travel & Events

Tags:

• redwood
• tree
• sit
• logging
• environment
• activism
• protest
• peace
• forest
• defender
• forestry
• clearcut
• california
• sequoia

[papacodes]

Was that a ply"wood" base on your tree house, or are you not a hypocrite?

[rudibega]

I founded We Save Trees, and I have built dozens of tree-sits, I Love the Forest. I also own 3 chainsaws and own a tree-trimming service, and do restoration and sustainable logging. I cut down trees. I love what I do. Logging can be done right, and it can be done wrong. Mattole Restoration Council does it Right! Pacific Lumber does it WRONG! PL represents the bad in business. Everyone here knows that. And many do abroad, Thanks to the treesitters!

[whiterussia444]

@rudibega

Your my hero!



[mywootgarden]

its a wonderfull song!

[logosthedestroyer]

That is probably because most loggers are doing so purely for a job. But people like rudibega have a conscience too, it seems to me. I agree, logging can be carried out efficiently and to the *benefit* of the ecology if done so carefully and selectively. I can't see a problem with what rudibega is saying here.

[papacodes]

I know lots of people that work for PL, and they would have been fine, if not for all of the tree huggers, and liberal politics in that area. This is America, where a man has the right to do what he wants with his money, and on his OWN land! Its called capitalism. Oh, and by the way, Maxxam did not cause the floods and landslides. You might look up el nino', because landslides and floods are generally caused by catastrophic weather patterns.

[papacodes]

You Save Trees, yet you cut them down? Makes a lot of sense??? Give me a break! You should not even have the right to grab hold of a chainsaw with your ignorance, let alone own one. I grew up with a chainsaw in my hand, and I guarantee you that all of the years of my timber cutting career all over the pacific northwest, and alaska, I have never come across a logger who would thank tree sitters!

[papacodes]

So, residents in southern california have had their houses destroyed by major landslides too, but...oh yeah, they can't blame it on logging, because there are not any trees there to cut, but they might not know that landslides happen WHEN THERE IS AN ABNORMAL AMOUNT OF RAIN! And I do know how pissed off the residents of rio dell and scotia, (not arcata), are, because they have had to put up with tree-hugging hippies, and bullshit politics that have taken their jobs.

[papacodes]

Your rational? I cut timber there, for four years, and never cut any 2000 year old second growth. How much have you smoked?

[rudibega]

Hey your right. Talking rationally with you is silly. YOUR NOT RATIONAL! Rationality would include looking into alternatives other that DESTROYING YOU OWN COMMUNITY TO MAKE SOMEONE ELSE LOTS OF MONEY. its irrational. smoking dope on the other hand is commonly used legally as a relief to stress. I get stressed when I see the last of the 2000 yr. old trees fall to the ground for Charles Hurwitz's Savings and Loan Debt (still unpaid). And I choose to make the difference at home first. ACT LOCAL!

[rudibega]

BS. You dont know anything about it. You dont know about your house being destroyed by landslides that originated on Palco Lands. You dont know anything about the floods we go thru every year.. not every 100 or so. And you dont know anything about how pissed off everyone in Scotia and Rio Dell is that their Pension got taken away, and they just got fired. and so did their dad and grand Dad. No Sir. You Dont Know. But I do. because I live here.. and have to live with what they do to my home.