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	TREE SITTING INFO AND TIPS
		Tree sitting is a form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down (speculating that loggers will not endanger human lives by cutting an occupied tree).
		Tree sitters have successfully prevented logging of ancient old growth forests for months at a time, and in some instances have convinced logging companies not to cut trees in some areas.
		On the other hand, tree sitting is often used as a stalling tactic, to prevent the cutting of trees while lawyers fight in the courts to secure the long-term victories.
	www.ihabits.com /Tree_sitting (489 words)

	Tree sitting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tree sitting is a form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down (speculating that loggers will not endanger human lives by cutting an occupied tree).
		On the other hand, tree sitting is often used as a stalling tactic, to prevent the cutting of trees while lawyers fight in the courts to secure the long-term victories.
		Tree sitting in the 1970's led to the protection of Pureora Forest in New Zealand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tree_sitting (828 words)

	Tree sitting
		Tree sitting in the 1970's led to the protection of Pureora Forest in New Zealand.
		Tree spiking is a form of sabotage which involves hammering a metal rod or other material into a tree trunk in order to discourage logging.
		Tree spiking was declared a federal felony in the United States in 1988.
	www.libraryoflibrary.com /E_n_c_p_d_Tree_sitting.html (1947 words)

	Holding Vigil in an Ancient Redwood
		The tree, named Jerry by the first climber who sat in these branches, is one of the few ancients left in Freshwater Watershed, and that number is growing fewer every day.
		One-thousand-year-old trees that come crashing to the ground are not even allowed to fall in silence as the whine of other chainsaws drone on.
		Sitting in a tree in the forest for a year is truly an eye-opening experience.
	www.treesfoundation.org /publications/article-116 (1208 words)

	Tree Sitting Old Glory, John quigley, Santa Clarita
		Since this is a urban tree sitting, cones are placed in front of the fence to keep visiters from parking right up front, forcing pedestrins to step into the street.
		Note the muddy pit on the far side of the tree that constitutes a bit of a hazard to urbanites who might have difficulty with the construction zone.
		One of the aspects of a safety tree sit is the use of redundant ropes to secure the platform and even supplies safely.
	www.skeptictank.org /treesit/treesit.htm (1381 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal - Spring 2004
		Deep in the foliage of the redwoods, some of the oldest and largest trees remaining in the world, we are not easily detected.
		Groups like We Save Trees and Earth First!, to which the several dozen tree-sitters and their ground support network in this part of California are loosely affiliated, say that PL is cutting down trees at a rate that the forest has no hopes of sustaining.
		That's the second-longest tree-sit for protest purposes ever, after that of Julia "Butterfly" Hill, who occupied a redwood tree named "Luna" for a whopping two years and eight days in the late 1990s before she made a deal with PL to save her tree.
	www.earthisland.org /eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=859&journalID=77 (829 words)

	Woman ends protest in tree - The Boston Globe
		A surveyor will determine whose property the tree is on, DeMauro's or her neighbors', the Kourkoulakos family.
		And yesterday the story took another twist: Tyngsborough officials believe that the tree may be so close to a wetland area that city statutes forbid cutting it down.
		Contractors had cleared other trees from his property and were halted at the old white pine by DeMauro.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/06/24/woman_ends_protest_in_tree (266 words)

	Massachusetts Law About Neighbors and Trees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Whoever wilfully, maliciously or wantonly cuts, destroys or injures a tree, shrub or growth which is not his own, standing for any useful purpose, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
		City was held liable for damages caused by limbs of dead tree falling from property which city acquired for nonpayment of taxes.
		A neighbor has the right to remove so much of the tree as overhangs his property....This court finds that this right to self-help is not confined to those parties who can show that their property was sufficiently damaged to justify their right to exercise self-help.
	www.lawlib.state.ma.us /trees.html (406 words)

	Forestry Commission - News - what wood are you sitting on?
		These trees represent coniferous species throughout the temperate world in all their variety of size, shape and colour.
		The collection includes rare, historically important and endangered trees and is home to some 91 vulnerable or critically endangered species and five NCCPG National Collections, Yew, Juniper, and Lawson Cypress, Leyland Cypress, Thuja.
		Bedgebury boasts the tallest tree in Kent, which is aptly named ‘The Old Man of Kent’.
	www.forestry.gov.uk /newsrele.nsf/web-allbysubject/8B809E75D064191080256E280032ED10 (678 words)

	CNN.com - Activists maintain vigil to save 400-year-old oak - Dec. 4, 2002
		Living inside a 400-year-old oak tree for the past month, John Quigley has been at the center of a battle between developers and environmentalists over the future of the tree in Santa Clarita, California, now standing in the path of a road project.
		The tree is in the path of a planned four-lane highway in one of Los Angeles' growing northern suburbs.
		They said "Old Glory" would be the largest and oldest tree ever moved by Valley Crest Tree Co. and that the company's success rate for relocating trees runs from 40 percent to 10 percent for large old trees.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/West/12/04/old.oak.ap (538 words)

	North Coast Journal - June 19, 2003: IN THE NEWS
		Wagner said the forest activists were incensed that PL was apparently planning to cut down a redwood tree named "Aradia" near Gypsy Creek, which tree-sitters have reportedly occupied for five years.
		"The issue on Gypsy Mountain is that that tree is in negotiation to be included in the memorial [grove] for David `Gypsy' Chain," she said.
		Long enough, he said, for the old-growth trees that were used to build it to grow back in time for its replacement.
	www.northcoastjournal.com /061903/news0619.html (2661 words)

	Metroactive Features \| Out on a Limb
		To do a tree sit is to dedicate every second of your life to standing up to a giant corporation.
		As Lodgepole gives a tour of the tree sits that lie just a few feet from Greenwood Heights Road, he explains that safety is a priority in training climbers.
		The tree was so heavy and the fall so great that large sections of the trunk were shattered into what Lodgepole says are unusable fragments.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.08.03/treesitters-0319.html (3011 words)

	CNN - After 2 years, tree-sitting woman descends, claiming victory - December 18, 1999
		Hill climbed the tree on December 10, 1997, to protest logging.
		The region where the tree is located has been the site of numerous logging protests focusing on the Headwaters Forest Complex, a 94-square mile area that includes thousands of acres of ancient redwoods.
		Hill was supported during her protest by a group of fellow activists who appeared at the base of the tree almost nightly.
	archives.cnn.com /1999/NATURE/12/18/tree.sitter.02/index.html (801 words)

	OUT ON A LIMB
		I never sat in a tree, although I have extensive experience being inserted into that "sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G" rhyme in elementary school.
		Of course, the Christmas trees I found were either dead and too late to save, or alive with no danger of becoming eventual mulch.
		For example, an eighth of a tree probably died to make the heavy "Save This Tree" sign I brought with me. And you're reading this in a newspaper which, although it uses recycled paper, still consists of tree corpses.
	www.coreylevitan.com /adventures/tree.html (1312 words)

	TreeHouses.org - Speakers Bureau
		The idea of a universally accessible tree house began to take shape; the pair began work on their first handicap-accessible tree house.
		Their goal is a tree house in every state by the year 2008.
		Sitting in his office, Bill reflected on his journey in this unique venture: "Building a community accessible tree house can be rewarding on many levels: bringing communities together, giving every body a chance to sit in a tree house and give everyone a chance to contribute in many different ways to a worthwhile project."
	www.treehouses.org /speakers.shtml (488 words)

	Tree spiking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tree spiking is a form of sabotage which involves hammering a metal rod or other material into a tree trunk in order to discourage logging.
		It is believed that tree spiking originated in timber logging labor disputes in the Pacific Northwest of the United States in the late 1800s.
		Tree spiking was declared a federal felony in the United States in 1988.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tree_spiking (486 words)

	CNN.com - Tree-sitter evicted from old oak - Jan. 11, 2003
		Authorities cut the device keeping him tethered to the tree, then placed him in on a platform at the top of the ladder and lowered it to the ground.
		Quigley, 42, had been living on a platform in the tree to protest a developer's plan to remove the oak in order to widen a road in an area planned for new homes.
		Laing, which owns the property the tree sits on, wants it out of the way to widen a road that would serve the proposed 21,600-home Newhall Ranch development north of Los Angeles.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/West/01/11/old.oak.ap/index.html (626 words)

	A beautiful Maple tree planted on behalf of everyone who owns one of these headphone amplifiers.
		The tree measured almost five feet tall before planting and had about 50 leaves on it.
		This tree is known as an "Autumn Blaze Maple".
		The tree seems to be doing quite well, with new leaves are coming up all over.
	www.electric-avenues.com /tree.html (300 words)

	Sitting Under Anaphora Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		I am sitting under a sycamore tree: I am soft-shell and peeled to the least puff of wind or smack of grit.
		I am sitting under a bankside sycamore; my mind is a slope.
		By creating, on paper, a continuous space and presence under the tree, she, in fact, rethinks again and again, directly for the reader, her role as a conscious being, a sage, and a writer.
	www.victorianweb.org /courses/nonfiction/dillard/bull11.html (562 words)

	tree sitting in 'clay pot' no drainage - Trees Forum - GardenWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One tree died first year, the first replacement never stood a chance, sat out in the root ball down the street for 5-6 weeks in blistering summer heat, leaves were brown and falling off before it was planted.
		Blamed me for first tree dying, it was sitting in a pool of water (they planted the second one in the same mess).
		Now, if you had old-timey jointed terracotta sewer pipes, or fenestrated drain tiles for a septic leach system, then, yes, the roots can get in there, but if you're on a municipal sewage system, they don't really pose a problem, unless it was improperly installed, or the pipes are broken and leaking.
	forums2.gardenweb.com /forums/load/trees/msg1214100615751.html (741 words)

	11/10/2002 -- Death of logging operations protester highlights dangers of tree sitting
		Davie said he acknowledges that tree sitting is dangerous, and that there is a heroic nature to putting one's body on the line to protect something.
		Tree sitters can spend months camped on platforms in trees, hoping to call attention to the environmental effects of logging.
		In perhaps the most famous tree sit, Julia "Butterfly" Hill spent two years 180 feet (54 meters) up in a 1,000-year-old redwood in Northern California to save it from being cut down for lumber.
	forests.org /articles/reader.asp?linkid=16696 (650 words)

	News \| Gainesville.com \| The Gainesville Sun \| Gainesville, Fla. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		__TOC__ Tree sitters have successfully prevented logging of ancient old growth forests for months at a time, and in some instances have convinced logging companies not to cut trees in some areas.
		On May 20, 1985 he ascended a Douglas Fir in an area of the Middle Santiam region of Willamette National Forest that was in the process of being clearcut.
		In 2006, following a successful protest lasting over one year, tree sitters in Cathedral Grove (also known as MacMillan Provincial Park), British Columbia, halted the removal of a number of old growth Douglas Fir trees which were scheduled to be to taken down in an attempt to calm traffic and improve the parking facilities.
	www.gainesville.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=tree_sitter (1406 words)

	[MS 39: Box 1] Detail of Photo Album - Abilene Christian University
		A group of girls sitting in front of their dorm.
		Bettye in a graduation cap by the tree.
		A girl sitting on her dorm roof gazing at a picture of a boy.
	www.acu.edu /academics/library/cfm/manind/man039_1.html (1626 words)

	Fenestra: Environmental Sympathies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is okay to chop trees down - I do not equate the value of trees with the value of my grandmother.
		But if we truly appreciate nature the way God wants us to, if we indeed realize for ourselves that what he made is very good (apart from the havoc sin's entrance wreaked on it), we will not desire to see a hillside that has been completely devoided of trees.
		We will not purchase gas-guzzling vehicles just for the sake of being "cool." We will not generate large quantities of trash to fill dumps that will not be diminished.
	www.oregonstate.edu /~varneyc/2005/03/environmental-sympathies.html (371 words)

	North Coast Journal - March 6, 2003: COVER STORY - Out on a Limb: Tree-sitting in Freshwater (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Anna busied herself on the forest floor beneath me. I'd catch glimpses of her sitting on a stump, grubbing through a bag of nuts a well-wisher had left with her, scraping fresh orange spray paint off the base of the tree, all between heaves up the line.
		Of course, when a climber comes up your tree, you know your life is immediately in danger, because there's nothing safe about evicting a person [from a tree] especially when tactics like pain compliance and zip-tied hands behind your back are being used.
		It's not like they're marking the trees so they'll know which ones to cut, this is a clear cut -- they're going to cut every tree whether it's 2,000 years old or 2 years old -- so there's no reason to paint on the trees.
	www.northcoast.com /~ncjour/030603/cover0306.html (5719 words)

	math lessons - Tree sitting
		Sometimes logging companies will hire tree climbers to remove trespassers sitting in trees.
		Although it is the companies' legal right to do so, the tree climbers occasionally cause harm to the sitters that resist efforts to end their trespassing, and in at least one case it has resulted in death.
		She became known for her 738 day sit (from December 10, 1997 until December 18, 1999) in a 180-foot, 600-year-old Coast Redwood tree, which she named Luna.
	www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Tree_sitting (403 words)

	Earth First! 1985 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		CFAG was a citizen's group that brought Gandhian tactics of non-violent civil disobedience to the Earth Firstian struggle to protect the remaining ancient Douglas Fir stands of Willamette National Forest from the clearcuttery the Reagan Administration had unleashed there.
		tree sitting offensive, a tactic that now occupies an important place in the toolbox of earth activism.
		Despite the Wright Brothers-like brevity of Mike's first-ever Earth First tree-sit, the tactic of tree climbing to hold sit-ins in the canopies was validated.
	www.penbay.org /ef/treesit_first1985.html (883 words)

	Legend of the Book Tree (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Instead of standing up, the tree was sitting down on a knoll holding something in front of its face.
		When the Book Tree finished reading the story and said, "The End", Squirrel wished the reading could go on and on, but the reading had taken almost an hour, which was a long time for Squirrel to be still.
		Soon all of the Book Tree’s friends were coming by to talk with him about the books they had read and to trade in the books they had read for other books.
	www.booktree.net /about_us12.html (706 words)

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