World's First Tree-sitting Weblog

An anonymous reader writes "Amit Asaravala over at Wired News has an interesting article up about the tree-sitters in Humboldt County. Apparently a bunch of tech activists from the Indymedia Center are setting the tree-sitters up with an 802.11b network so that they can blog about all the logging going on up there. Seems like a pretty interesting way to use technology to help the environment, which isn't something you see everyday."

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Hippies

[Wyatt Earp]

"Seems like a pretty interesting way to use technology to help the environment, which isn't something you see everyday."

In helping the environment you mean they want the forests to remain as is and not evolve and keep the forests nice and tight so a fire will take everything out.

The evolution of a western United States forest doesn't stop at the large conifers, fires are supposed to clear out the conifers so the next phase of the forest continues.

We fight fires, so the forests remain coniferous. For the last few decades clear cutting has been replaced with selective cutting, but yahoos like these hippies want things to remain static. Well a forest of big pine bombs waiting to go off will just cause one hell of a fire someday and the trees will still be dead.

Bah to the hippies.

Hmmmmmmm.

[airrage]

"Seems like a pretty interesting way to use technology to help the environment, which isn't something you see everyday."

We'll let's see here newbie, Blockbuster now simply charges my credit card for late movies, and I think that's a stretch more interesting use of technology than stringing cable through the evergreens. And Donna, remember sitting in a forest writing a diary on logging is like camping out on Aisle 5 and writing about a Mom who chooses Jif over Peter Pan. It's gonna happen sweetheart. Now sweetie, I know your getting your birkenstocks all in a wad, but before you fill your all-natural-llama-hair sweater full of crocodile tears, let me remind you of something you may have forgotten between you double-lattes served in a styrene cup: specifically, the tree in which you now sit, his brother, though now long gone, is the very thing which allows us all to heat our homes, preserve our thoughts, and keep our bottoms clean.

Swab their eyes with mace!

[Mantrid]

I suppose this article is timely - it is the season of fruitcakes after all! But seriously, isn't there something useful they can be doing with their time?

Maybe they could study architecture or engineering and come up with good, economical ways to build housing without lumber? Or do fundraising to purchase land to make reserves? Or research to find better, more environmentally friendly ways of logging? Perhaps if some lumber company choose to do old style logging (where you pick individual, strategic trees to remove instead of clear cutting leaving a good variety of trees and undergrowth), they could lobby to support such companies, despite higher lumber costs?

I dunno, just seems like there's more productive ways to spend your life, and still make a difference.

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Help the Enviornment?

[libertynews]

Haven't any of you radical tree-huggers noticed something interesting about plants?

THEY GROW BACK!

You cut down trees, and a few years later they just grow back again. You cut down the new ones, and more grow back. Its called a renewable resource, like corn or wheat or apples, etc.

Up here in the NW we've had our logging industry devastated by these radical nutburgers. They got the media to play up the spotted owl issue to the point that logging was shut down all across the state. And now it ends up that there isn't anything special about their habitat -- they'll even nest in KFC signs.

But do they apologize for devastating and industry and putting thousands out of work? For raising the prices of the wood we build our houses with? No. They don't have to apologize -- they meant well, didn't they?

So please don't give me any of this helping the environment crap. It doesn't need any help from us.

Re:Ummmm.. Contradiction

[perljon]

I bet you came to age in the sixties, and you were pot smoking tree hugger then. And now... your still a pot smoking tree hugger. People laugh at you. You are like a clown, but what's even funnier is that you don't even know it. ROTFLMAO, look at the clown in his tree. He thinks people care. HAHAHAHA