The reason for protesting timber sales

    Decades ago, a forest defender named Gedden Cascadia climbed to the top of a 140 foot Douglas fir. Reflecting back on the climb, he wrote:

That first tree that I climbed is still standing. After all these years, I can still go back and sit under it and remember the blisters and how scared I was. I can be reminded of the moment I fell in love. That love is what has sustained me, along with the anger that is invoked by the sound of every chain saw being wielded by greed. I want to be remembered as a person who stood up and pushed aside the apathy inherent in the comfort we enjoy as a society. (Quoted from Forest Defenders: The Confrontational American Landscape, by Christopher LaMarca. powerHouse Books. 2008.)

    For more on Gedden Cascadia and his beliefs, click here.