3/20/00
Right View Timber Sale
Unit 5 Cut in just 1.5 Days
March 14 and 15 the loggers cut most of the sale trees in unit 5. Our tax dollars had to pay for a dozen law enforcement officers to protect the 5 work crews from the peaceful and gentle teen-ager sitting in the tree.
Trees were cut to within 50 feet of the tree-sitter. Most of the buffer is less than 100 feet. Most of the trees felled are close to 150 or even 200 feet tall. One tree that was cut hit a tree the sitter was tied into, and made his tree shudder. With the "buffer" now isolated from its forest, some of the trees will likely blow over. The tree-sitters, though in increased danger, are not leaving until BLM can promise in writing not to cut any more trees in unit 5. BLM doesn't want to promise this because a new road is supposed to be built where the tree-sit buffer is. Below are some photos of unit 5 cut.
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Same Tree
Before and After
Above: Two large trees had grown and lived
together. The loggers took just one tree and left
her soul sister to mourn in pain.
Click here for more information on the logging.
Also see Pictures of:
- the landslides and clearcuts of Right View unit 1 & 2.
- the uncut old-growth of Right View. unit 5 before logging.
- the tree sitters - Protest July 1999
- illegal logging in stream side reserves unit 1.
- general Right View information
