I just got these pictures from the protest in the Elliott State Forest along with this update from Cascadia Forestdefenders: Report just in :
Police staging area spotted, more then 40 multi agency trucks, Cherry Picker, and FBI involvement.
From Cascadia Forest Defenders:
Tuesday, July 26th, Coos County , Oregon
Early Tuesday morning a number of activists with Cascadia Forest Defenders, and Cascadia Earth First! unfolded a series of road blockades in the Elliott State Forest, located in Coos County, closing access points to timber sales along the west fork of the Millicoma River. The blockades consist of an array of Tree-sits and ground level locking devices. The activists are prepared to block logging in this sensitive eco-system for as long as necessary.
The sales are all slated for clear-cut logging, and are areas of native forest that have never before seen a chain saw. They exist on steep slopes where erosion from logging threatens to further damage Salmon habitat, as well as devastate already dwindling numbers of protected species such as the Marbled Murrelet and the Northern Spotted Owl. Native forests refers to forest that has never before been logged, but can include forests that have experienced wildfire. Please see www.forestdefensenow.com for regular updates on this developing situation.
| Time | Wednesday, March 2 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm |
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| Location | Eureka First United Methodist Church 520 Del Norte Street (F and Del Norte St.) |
| More Info | From: Richardson Grove Action Now Sent: Sat, February 26, 2011 4:23:41 PM Subject: Wed, March 2: Richardson Grove Action Now MEETING ...Richardson Grove Action Now [RGAN] invites you to a meeting at 6pm on Wednesday, March 2nd in Eureka. Because we've been receiving phone calls, emails, inquiries and support, and because we want to build a powerful and successful movement of the people to STOP the highway widening through Richardson Grove, we hope you'll participate in this Wednesday's meeting. This is the first RGAN meeting open to anyone interested in stopping CalTrans' federally-funded project through the Grove. Please invite friends, neighbors, co-workers, and family members who are also interested in stopping the project. Time is running... Our communities have varying, yet all critical, reasons to oppose the road widening project. Richardson Grove Action Now has been attempting to expose all of those reasons and believes that the project must and WILL be stopped by many of us taking action, regardless of the different focuses for opposition. Between now and Wednesday, please: 1) talk to more people about coming to the meeting, 2) think about your part in emergency community action to stop CalTrans if CalTrans starts physically beginning work for the road widening. Wednesday's meeting: 6:00pm at the Eureka First United Methodist Church 520 Del Norte Street (F and Del Norte St.) There will be food. Please bring a potluck dish, if you can. Feel free to call us anytime: (707) 602-7551 or email: rgroveactionnnow@gmail.com We are organizing every day. |
From Richardson Grove Action Now:Richardson Grove Action Now will be hosting an Action Camp in Southern Humboldt, beginning this Saturday, Feb 12th and going until Tuesday, Feb 15th.
Richardson Grove ACTION CAMP begins Sat, Feb 12
