Results for keyword: Protests
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Protests from the (tree)top down
A new film, "Tree-Sit: The Art of Resistance," documents years of protests against clear-cut logging in Northern California's Headwaters Forest.
by Mason Adams, Apr 01, 2002 -
A price tag for protest
The Oregon Department of Forestry wants to charge protesters for timber that can't be cut in forests such as the Tillamook, where tree-sitting activists have held longtime protests.
by Erika Trautman, Dec 17, 2001 -
Quincy collaboration heads to court
The Quincy Library Group plans a lawsuit to challenge the Sierra Nevada Framework, which the group says has "killed" its own collaborative plan for national forest management.
by Jane Braxton Little, Dec 17, 2001 -
The timber sale that won't die
The Eagle Creek timber sale in Mount Hood National Forest near Portland, Ore., is a mecca for protesters, but some say the sale is environmentally sound, and the protests are much ado about nothing.
by Rachel Jackson, Sep 24, 2001 -
Tagging a protest
The AZ NoFee Coalition is protesting the user fee demonstration program in the Red Rock area of Coconino National Forest in Arizona.
by Bill Oriol, Jan 29, 2001 -
Protesters rock roadless area hearings
Environmentalists in favor of roadless area protection and loggers and ORVers against it both gather in Missoula, Mont., to give the Forest Service their opinion.
by Mark Matthews, Jul 03, 2000 -
Chainsaws fall silent in Cove-Mallard
Protests and chainsaws in Idaho's controversial roadless Cove-Mallard area have both stopped since new Nez Perce National Forest Supervisor Bruce Bernhardt announced that six unsold timber sales planned for the area would remain unsold.
by Eric Barker, Jan 17, 2000 -
Julia Butterfly won't come down
Activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill has lived for more than a year in a 1,000-year-old redwood near Stafford, Calif., to protest the cutting of old-growth trees.
by Rebecca Clarren, Mar 15, 1999 -
An activist dies in the forest
Pacific Lumber and Earth First! argue over who is responsible for the death of activist David Chain, killed by a falling tree in a protest on California's Headwaters Forest.
by Dustin Solberg, Oct 12, 1998 -
Longtime foes practice ritual combat in an Idaho forest
The writer goes to central Idaho to visit the heart of the longest-standing Earth First! demonstration, protesting the Cove-Mallard timber sale.
by Bryan Foster, Sep 14, 1998
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