2. What is Cascadia Summer 2009?
• Last line of defense between
federal agencies/timber
companies and our PUBLIC
FORESTS.
• Uses the entire activist tool
box
• Camp in the forest or help out
in the City, we’re inviting
everyone to join us for a
summer, a month or even just
a few days. www.forestdefensenow.org
3. State Forests
• Tillamook-Clatsop State Forest
• Elliott State Forest
- Marbeled murrelet and spotted owl
surveying – Contact Shannon Wilson @
tsuga@efn.org
4.
5. BLM Overview
• 25,000 Acres to be cut this summer
• Since 2004, the Oregon BLM has been
found guilty of breaking federal law by 9th
Circuit federal courts on at least six separate
cases involving timber sales in southern
Oregon
• But why break the law, when you can just
change it?
6. WOPR
• The WOPR would increase BLM logging
by 436%
• This would include logging on 1 million
acres of public land in Oregon, including
100,000 acres of old growth
• 70% of the logging would be clearcuts
• Streamside protections cut in half
7. Why does this matter?
• Forests are essential for climate change
mitigation and adaptation
• Species habitat degradation
• Unsustainable economy and the cost of
deforestation to humans
• Less than 5% of US old growth remains
standing
12. Boom, Bust is Bad for Oregonians
• We depend on our natural assets for food and
water security
• Timber is a small fraction of our economy and
degrades other segments
15. Solutions
• Moratorium on all mature and ancient forest
logging on public lands
• Improve federal law to protect public forests
for carbon storage and biodiversity
(resiliency) and create real restoration jobs
19. A New Paradigm
A Community
Protecting Natural
Assets for Future
Generations
Bureaucrats &
Consumers
Business As Usual
20. Tactics that have been used
• Public participation in forestry process
– Petitions (Unheeded by BLM)
– Comments (Over 30,000 anti-WOPR comments)
– Surveys (NEST)
– Lobbying (State Forests, BLM, and Burning for Energy)
• Direct Action
– Boycotts, Responsible Consumer Campaigns
– Treesits
– Blockades
– Monkeywrenching
21. NEST (NW Ecosystems
Survey Team)
• NEST operated under the NW
Forest Plan
• Surveyed predominately for
Red Tree Voles (RTV)
• Each RTV nest granted 10
acres of protection under
federal law
• Bush canceled Survey and
Manage in summer 2008
22. Direct Action (DA)
Aims of contemporary DA, according to Wikipedia:
• obstruct another political agent or political
organization from performing some practice to
which the activists object; or,
• solve perceived problems which traditional
societal institutions (businesses, governments,
powerful churches or establishment unions) are
not addressing to the satisfaction of the direct
action participants.
27. Other Tactics We Use
• Working with conventional media!
• Creating our own media!
• Lobbying & Bird-dogging!
• Outreach to impacted communities!
DA in tandem with other tactics packs the
greatest punch!
28. Forest Lobbying
• OPPOSE HB 3058 – LNG permit fast tracking
• OPPOSE HB 3072 – state forest clearcutting
• SUPPORT HB 3249 – state forest conservation
Go to www.leg.state.or.us/findlegsltr
Call 1-800-332-2313
Contact Samantha, schirill@uoregon.edu for future
lobby opportunities
29. Upcoming Events
• May 6 - Public Forum on “Wildfire Hysteria &
‘Forest Biomass’ Greenwash”, 7pm, Harris
Hall at 8th
& Oak in Eugene
• May 16 – Busking Festival
• May 16 – Elliott Murrelet Survey/Hike
• May 20 - Trip to Coos Bay for Elliott Timber
Auction
• May 27 – ODF Rally
• May 23-25 - Action Camp
Approximately 40,000 rural Oregonians live within one half-mile of BLM land and their homes, drinking water, and local economies would be put at risk by the WOPR
Recreation and tourism contribute more than twice as much money to Oregon's economy than the timber industry. Recreation, tourism, and fishing are projected to lose long-term jobs under the WOPR.
The timber industry, like our culture itself, is management based, he said. But when it comes to Nature, according to Camp, this simply cannot be done.
Instead of insisting that Nature conform to mankind’s view of management, the new paradigm is that we have to learn what makes the natural system work.
The ecosystem is based on natural selection, says Camp. He noted: It is part of the web of life. By insisting otherwise, the timber industry is committing fraud upon the public. Forestry’s management-based program necessitates a war against other species; prioritizes short-term profits at biological expense; removes green trees which reduce productivity; degrades and destroys natural forests; causes climate changes and loss of carbon storage through removal of green plants; is not supported by science and is not sustainable. And its practitioners are not held accountable, according to Camp.
Have to acknowledge tropical deforestation for biofuels and other products for U.S. and European consumers of supposedly "natural" and alternative foods -- Amazon approaching a critical threshold for survival. &
Although tropical rainforests cover more surface area than temperate forests, they are being destroyed at a faster rate by corporations meeting consumer demand for products from palm, soy, and eucalyptus and from native people displaced by the corporations, desperate to cut and burn forests for cattle grazing or luxury item monocrops. Rainforest soil is thin, erodes away easily, and declines rapidly upon conversion to agricultural use, which may only be feasible for a decade before desertification renders the area a wasteland polluted with fossil fuel-derived pesticides and fertilizers.
The Amazon Rainforest produces 20% of its own precipitation. If deforestation continues, the Amazon will not have a critical mass of forest to survive. Deserts are predicted to replace current tropical forests in the next few decades.
Where does the biofuel come from in your 89 gasoline? the palm oil in your butter substitute?
Push for massive resistance with Copenhagen approaching (I attended an action planning meeting at PowerShift about this), the concern is about not just the global impact but that on sustainable indigenous communities
