More than 70 protesters are still blocking the main access road to the site of Woodside’s proposed LNG precinct at James Price Point, 60km north of Broome. A convoy of Woodside contractors has returned to Broome and no work will be carried […]
By Panagioti Tsolkas, editorial collective member of the Earth First! Journal In a twisted irony, US Marshals opened an online auction of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski’s personal belongings last month, turning the items used for his letter bombing campaign and backwoods survival into […]
In a 25-page dissent, Judge Paez of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals explained why the Forest Service’s controversial old growth logging project in the Five Buttes area of the Deschutes National Forest should be stopped. The Forest Service proposes to authorize […]
The ITD (Idaho Transportation Department) will issue permits to Conoco-Phillips today, January 25th. They are expected to start the first load up wild and scenic route 12 on February 1st, destined for the Canada tar sands. Conoco-Phillips and ITD claim that only […]
Less than five months after some logging companies and large environmental groups declared a truce to the “war in the woods” a remote Ontario First Nation is calling for renewed boycotts against Weyerhaeuser Corporation, one of North America’s largest lumber producers. In […]
from the Center for Biological Diversity Legislation Would Strip Federal Protection From Wolves Before Recovery is Complete WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today condemned newly introduced federal legislation that would strip Endangered Species Act protections from wolves around the country before […]
Jacoby Creek Tree Sitter Journal by EF!Humboldt ~ September 29th, 2010 tree-sit Jacoby creek Day One (Aug 23rd) * Big moon, clear skies for the first time in over a month. Solo except for Alex in another tree up the hill. Green […]
Biggest Trees in the World in Danger TimberWest has been logging closer and closer to the largest Douglas fir in the world in British Columbia, in spite of environmentalists warn that the 1,000-year-old tree is vulnerable to blowdown. The San Juan spruce, […]
Khimki Victory and Direct Action Last week, Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced that a freeway would not be constructed through the Khimki old-growth oak forest in Northern Moscow, even though half of the trees have already been cut. It is […]