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Label GMOs Signature Gathering Training
meetings / 4 p.m. Sun Yi's Academy of Tae Kwon Do, 1215 Giuntoli Lane, Arcata. Help gather valid signatures to get the 'California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act' on the 2012 ballot. E-mail northernhumboldtlabelgmos@hotmail.com. 223-0424.
Open Celtic Music Session
music / 3 p.m. Cafe Veritas/Mosgo's, 180 Westwood Center, Arcata. Informal monthly gathering of musicians playing Irish and other Celtic music. Hosted by Seabury Gould. seaburygould.com. 845-8167.
Nonviolence Action Camp
etc. / 10 a.m. Chinmaya Mission near Piercy. Weekend-long direct action orientation features workshops, role playing, seminars, ceremonies and field trips. Bring food, bedding, warm clothes, signs, banners, bikes, drums, acoustic instruments. Pre-register. saverichardsongrove.org. 932-5898.
Audubon Society Field Trip
outdoors / 9 a.m. Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1020 Ranch Road, Loleta. Meet at Refuge Visitor Center off Hookton Road. Leisurely, two- to three-hour trip intended for people wanting to learn birds of Humboldt Bay area. 822-3613.
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Comment / By californiakayaker / March 5, 8:39 a.m.
I have video of a reporter climbing the tree Julia Butterfly lived in for was it three years…I was working for a TV station, and was the only one who would hike up there. It was probably the first of many many video stories. When we did it, everybody wanted to.
Comment / By bolithio / March 5, 2:17 p.m.
Idiots. Why would you “touch” on something that you dont want people to do? So pull stakes and flagging? Rad, so the loggers cut into a creek zone? Onto private property? Into an arch site? Well done you morons.
Earth first is grasping at straws trying to justify their existence in a place where regulated logging has obsoleted their cause. Why dont they go to places where actual serious impacts are occurring? Sorry, but the consensus out here is that a barren burned over wasteland is not in our future. We want a economic base, and a forest without a catastrophic fire threat.
Comment / By let it burn / March 5, 9:05 p.m.
Sacrifice Orleans for renewal of the Earth and the Spirit People.
Comment / By Jeff Muskrat / March 9, 6:42 p.m.
Bolithio! Where have you been hiding! Did someone kick over your rock? Haven’t heard from you since your past comments against Nanning Creek and Fern Gully defenders.
How does it feel to be wrong about tree-sitting being ineffective?
I’m sure that the NCJ got that part about pulling stakes and flagging. It is common knowledge that these tactics can be counterproductive, something that Farmer would not advocate for.
I must ask you, how have logging “regulations” improved forestry practices? How are clear-cutting(even aged management), steep-slope logging, and herbicide use(rehabilitation) sustainable practices?
Nothing has “improved”. Negative aspects of the industry have just been “mitigated” by forming green-washed lobby groups such as the FSC. And by changing the language a bit to make the industry sound more sustainable, fitting their greedy desires in spite of Mother Earth’s eleventh hour.
Fires are a part of natural forest landscape phases of cycling nutrients and promoting diversity. Otherwise, it’s called a mono-cropped tree farm. Like HRC or “Green” Diamond’s model forest.
Are our Public Lands supposed to be used as corporate tree farms? Cattle grazing areas?