
By Stacia Kalinoski
EUGENE, Ore--An activist group upset with the US Forest Service's logging practices spoke out Saturday.
And one member of Earth First did it from atop a 30 foot tree.
Grace Warner says the Forest Service plans to log old growth in the Willamette National Forest. Her group is working with Cascadia Forest Defense, which is campaigning to stop the Trapper timber sale in the McKenzie Watershed.
Warner says it's never been logged before, but that could change this month.
"It is one of the lasting native forests in Oregon. Most of our native forests are gone now," she said, while perched up in the tree.
Fellow activists marched from the tree to Senator Peter DeFazio's Office. They're upset with legislation he passed.
It extended a contract with the Seneca Jones Timber Company to log Trapper into the year 2013.









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Another in a long list of
Another in a long list of reasons why the rest of the country laughs at Oregon.