Armed Struggle for the Redwoods

A belated review of The Big Trees by panagioti, for the Earth First! Newswire If you like the idea of blowing up dams, burning down court houses, and standing side-by-side with Quakers in a reluctant armed revolt against the corrupt logging industry—and […]

One of the world’s top 10 oldest trees dies in Florida

January 16, 2012 in Central Florida a 3,500 year old Bald Cypress tree known as the “Senator”, passed away. This tree burned to the ground, due to a fire assumed to have started from a lightening strike it sustained in mid-January, causing […]

Occupation of Oregon Department of Forestry office

Action in protest of clear cutting plans By Earth First! Journal collective Mollala, OR—As a culmination of the annual Trans and Women’s Action Camp (TWAC), activists occupied the regional Oregon Department of Forestry office. Three members of the camp locked themselves together […]

Call to Defend Old Growth Forests in Eastern Oregon

An Action Alert from the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (BMBP) is asking people to help stop the Forest Service from moving forward on the 5 Buttes timber sale in Deschutes National Forest. At stake are over 3,000 acres of Northern Spotted owl […]

Two Conservationists Arrested in Tasmanian Tree Sit, Clearcutting, Resistance Continues

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snosZmMfVY&feature=player_embedded] March,21–Two conservationists have been arrested this evening in Tasmania’s far south, after spending twelve hours perched in tree sits. The tree sits made up two blockades that were situated on the Peak Rivulet rd, and prevented logging in three high conservation […]