there are all sorts of tree sits going on right now.. a bunch in oregon, one in bc and others in california i imagine. if you want to get involved take a look at www.cascadiarising.org or www.cathedralgrove.se (the sit in bc) see you in the trees!
As I understand it, design of a dam either allows or bars fish from swimming upstream. If the salmon can't get past the dams, they can't spawn and there are fewer salmon. While I didn't read about that specific dam, in the Klamath area, local, professional, ocean fisherman have come to realize that actions taken on land are affectting their livleyhood at sea. Complicated subjects, like ecology, can sound silly until they connect the dots.
I love Cathedral Grove!!!!!! It is amazing there, and yeah there's no age for treesiting that's for sure. Anyhow yay for trees! Keep up the good work. Neecoal
I'd be pretty shitty in a tree sit, i once got stuck in a two-story bush and had to wait for the fire department to come and get me out.
I reckon Miss Butterfly does Miss her tree. They can be quite charming. There's a tree at the grove and everyone who sleeps in it comments on how strangly friendly this particular tree is. It really likes company. In the morning you wake up in the tree and get to sing up the sun with all the birds too...I sure miss that tree...
oh maaan..ive always wanted to do a tree-sit..only problem is i have vertigo ^^;; but id probly get used to the height after a bit..
I cant leave the house longer than like 2 nights until I am 18, so how would I be able to stay in the tree for long periods?
I want to share my gut emotional reaction to this thread and then there's something else I want to get into briefly. First my emotional reaction to tree sits. Basically it's alot like what Woodstock Blazer said above they're 'so hippy' in other words a cool thing. (Hello again WB you may remember me from another Forum.) In the past few years I was lucky enough to get ahold of a couple EarthFirst! journals and there was a Sierra Club magazine that had some coverage. For me personally the young people doing tree sits and the support work come across as just about the most inspiring people on the planet. Different kinds of activism appeal to different kinds of people but somehow in my mind's eye this is really where it's at. One of the major as-yet unrealized goals of my life is to attend an EarthFirst! rendevous. I just missed one a couple years ago. I'm waiting for the next one a little closer by. I speak of young people doing this work. Not exclusively of course but it seems it's better to be young if you're going to do a tree sit. I'm 54 years old (a young 54 naturally every old person likes to think he's young) otherwise I'd do it myself. Then again just maybe holding a spot for awhile on rotation... NatureFreak412 GO FOR IT. With all due safety and other precautions. The second thing I want to talk about is planting and growing trees. This doesn't on the face of it sound very original but I think I've got a special angle so bear with me. Protecting old growth is important but, not to detract any from the EarthFirsters! whom I find so inspiring, new growth is also important. The thing is you don't have to go to a nursery and spend money to have a tree to plant and you don't necessarily have to have a fucking estate to plant it on. And who says it has to be your "property". All you have to do is have a few nuts or seeds you can get practically anywhere and stick them in some soil maybe in the fall and they come up in the spring and you can plant them just about ANYWHERE (in a species supporting habitat, for example many oak trees like to be high and dry but walnuts like to be closer to moisture). I'll explain it in terms of my own anecdotal story. Back when I was in sixth grade I saw these unusual oblong nuts hanging from a tree on the neighbor's property. That was forbidden fruit so naturally I was intrigued and I found out they were butternuts. From this I developed a thing about butternut trees and the net result is there are probably 100 more of them (and other species) on this planet right now than if I had never existed. All I see is people CUTTING DOWN trees. I 've gotten to the place where I'll hardly even pull out a WEED. Weeds don't exist. Maybe there are some exceptions relating to invasive exotics. Imagine if every person started/planted just one or two trees in their lifetime. Imagine if every person grew 5 or 10 or 50... Pretty much everybody can do this. I don't care if you live in Manhattan. There ought to be a requirement you can't graduate from high school if there's not at least one tree growing somewhere that you started. There are acorns all over the place and I've never seen so many black walnuts on trees and lying along the road as this fall 2005. Now's the time to get started. I'm happpy to answer questions/offer suggestions. Catalpas are easy and it doesn't have to be the fall. *** SES means Students for an Environmental Society
Specious assertions Eugene. But there are far more people now than when Columbus landed. In fact our numbers are doubling every 50 years or so. And trees won't grow back on asphalt.
