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- 1. Cascadia Summer 2009 What are you doing this summer?
- 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
- 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
- 11. Habitat • Spotted Owl • Pacific Fischer • Marbeled Murrelet • Red Tree Vole • Cougar
- 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
- 14. "Forests precede civilizations and deserts follow them.” -- Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand Boom, Bust Clip
- 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
- 16. Ecostry on Private Lands On left, founder Orville Camp
- 17. Mato Grosso State, Brazil, 2004 Holdren, AAAS Tropical Deforestation: Cutting Away Critical Mass
- 18. Global Forest Defense Effort
- 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.
- 23. Treesits
- 24. Soft Blockades Olympia Port Militarization Resistance
- 25. Hard Blockades Mountain Justice Summer - Rainforest Action Network
- 26. Aerial Occupations Tripods, bipods and monos . . .
- 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
Editor's Notes
- 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