Old Growth Reserve Logging Begins at Biscuit
oso, 07.03.2005 18:42
11 Arrested at Fiddler Timber Sale Blockade
John West of Silver Creek Logging Co. anticipated a fight over Fiddler Mountain. With 85 loggers ready to go, he expressed his intent to begin logging once a court mandate allowed controversial old growth reserve timber sales in the Biscuit Fire area to proceed. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued that mandate this morning, opening the fight West promised.
As dawn broke on the Green Bridge over the Illinois River near Selma this morning, 75 people gathered to block old growth reserve logging at the Fiddler Timber Sale. Forest Service law enforcement officers and Josephine County Sherrifs escorted loggers to the site at 6:30 am where they encountered a large crowd effectively blocking all access to the sale units.
After issuing an order to disperse, 72-year-old Selma resident Joan Norman sat in the middle of the bridge, refusing to move. "We have no laws in our forest so we will be the law," said Norman, before law enforcement officers carried her off to be arrested, charging her with interfering with an agricultural operation. Two other individuals were arrested at the Green Bridge.
72-year-old Joan Norman Draws a Line on the Green Bridge
Norman Hauled Off by Law Enforcement
Blockade on the Road to Fiddler Mountain
Blockade From Above
A Crowd Gathers on the Green Bridge
As the caravan of law enforcement and loggers moved beyond the blockade at the Green Bridge, they encountered more trouble approximately four miles up the road. At a bend in the road, three forest defenders were locked down to a red pickup truck cemented into the road.
Using a tow truck, a power saw, and bolt cutters, law enforcement officers were able to remove the three people locked to the vehicle. Five other people passively resisted being removed from the blockade site and were arrested.
With the blockades removed, loggers were able to move to the lower units of the Fiddler sale and began falling trees. Ten to twelve loggers worked a shortened day, falling numerous large trees in the heavily burned unit.
Fiddler is one of five old growth reserve sales in the Biscuit Fire area opened to loggers by this morning's court mandate. On Wednesday, March 9, Federal District Judge Michael Hogan will hear a motion for a temporary restraining order to stop logging. Another court case is scheduled for late March.
In the meantime, Silver Creek Logging Co. plans to continue falling trees at Fiddler before a judge can weigh in on the merits of the case. Forest defenders vowed to continue demonstrating against these controversial sales.
earlier reports
Biscuit/Fiddler Update - Old Growth Logging Begins
Arrests at Fiddler Timber Sale
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arrests 07.03.2005 - 20:06 I'm tired of people you are too radical to get arrested. If you're not really going to fuck shit up, why not sit in the road and make a disobedient statement. Make them arrest two hundred people, make them arrest 500 hundred people. Good friends bail you out of jail. Great friends sit beside you in jail and refuse to give their name in solidarity while saying, "that was one hell of a good time". MLK joe> Green Bridge 07.03.2005 - 21:55 I'm kind of surprised the Green Bridge is still standing. Seldom Seen> some photos 07.03.2005 - 22:03 
72 Year Old Woman Arrested 
Banner on Vehicle Lockdown 
Overhead shot of Vehicle Lockdown some photos from the corporate media Cascadia Rising EcoDefense>  e-mail:: siskiyou--at--cascadiarising.org
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hey joe 08.03.2005 - 14:46 get your ass down there and sit on the bridge rather than at a computer and complain about other people's actions. maybe being 'too radical' to get arrested is really about strategic commitment to a campaign and a community. or maybe people just aren't radical enough for you because you are the all-knowing god. sickntired> Be a Part of History 08.03.2005 - 16:09 Please join folks at the Green Bridge for an ongoing legal encampment! Wake up on the world-class Illinois River and watch the fog clear to warm blue skies. Help folks monitor and document logging activities, bring food and water donations, organize trips to the Berry old-growth reserve sale, etc. Help build momentum on the front lines of non-violent resistance to precedent-setting logging in old growth reserves. Long live the Siskiyou! fiddler> Green Bridge Call to Action Video 08.03.2005 - 17:24 
call to action, come camp at the green bridge! -
Watch this Video, it is a call to action to join us on the green bridge and say no to the vile nature of the timber beasst to cut into our old growth reserves and roadless areas. Take a stand, not one more black stick!
Justin> e-mail:: justin@siskiyou.org
So Much for Peaceful Demonstration 10.03.2005 - 10:36 Passive violence is still violence. Thinktivist> peace is war... 11.03.2005 - 19:49 the only people getting hurt are protesters. by cops. we are witnessing state violence enforcing policies intended to fuel controversy and divide the public. thinktivist passively assaults plain reality with her repeated interjections of idiocy. orwell> cold fog 11.03.2005 - 22:30 cold fog on dead ground an ecosystem is gone let them help the land Thinktivist> born in fire 12.03.2005 - 13:07 system gone? not even disturbance ecology siskiyous born in fire knobcone> syllabalabalbles 12.03.2005 - 22:37 count your syllables, knobcone ... you're off Pinus attenuata> A Question of Re Design 15.03.2005 - 06:33 Why are we smashing trees to make paper and boxes when we have a polymer chemistry that is so elegant? Leave the trees alone to do their work in the sunshine. They create the sustaining life support system we all enjoy. Our present production systems is barbaric just because we have not taken stock of our design opportunities. The eco-effient designers would ask "how can we use twice, four times even ten times less trees to make our boxes and paper?" The eco-effective designers are asking "why are we making boxes and paper out of precious trees of the world when we have a polymer chemistry that is so elegant. From a business perspective if boxes and paper were made of healthy infinitely up-cyclable polymers there would be no waste management costs, no extraction costs, no toxic emission costs for regulation, no regulation paperwork costs. Plus everytime the polymers came back to the industries for up-cycling revenue is created. This is Cradle to Cradle Design, actually the 2002 book "Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Making Things" is the first polymer book called a technical nutrient. This book is not a tree. Online 2003 lecture  http://wesley.stanford.edu/Multimedia/lectures/mcdonough.ram
NPR 2002 audio http://www.npr.org/programs/npc/2002/020424.wmcdonough.html
21st Century Designer> hydrocarbons 15.03.2005 - 09:30 Do you really think that polymers are more environmentally friendly than wood/paper? Or are you just being sarcastic? Lobbyist for the plastics industry? Wood products are made without the use of toxic, carcinogenic chemicals in the first place, so the 'cradle to grave' concept is moot. Three Eyed Fish> Great Contribution of Perspective 15.03.2005 - 13:26 It is always good for me to see many people sharing ideas; whether one likes what is said or not is a different story, but none the less I feel that I get a better understanding of other's values and beliefs. i think maybe this will be enough to find common ground that can serve as a good foundation for growth, allowing for empathy and perspective. Nothing is one sided, outside of a onedimensional object perhaps- yet even within this object as in the case of art/paintings, a multidimensional depiction of some shape or form is desirable. The title of my comment "Great Contribution of Perspective" is meant for 21st Century's contribution of William McDonough's speech. Mahalo! Jeremiah Jeremiah Johnson> e-mail:: jajohnso@hawaii.edu
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RISE ABOVE! 20.03.2005 - 14:13 i think what you all are doing is beautifu! but i think you shoud have welded some steel beams across the bridge. so it would have taken the cops and terrorists a while to get through to the other side. you could have also but some fencing and barded wire. that would have been a site to see a bunch of cops trying to cut through a bunch of razor sharp wire at 630 in the morning. t b > e-mail:: mwc4life@excite.com
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