This four-page newsletter describes the ongoing battles between Earth First! and the logging industry, as well as the variety of tactics they employed against the destruction Sanctuary Forest and the Albion River watershed.
Sanctuary Forest… is again being threatened with clearcutting. Last fall this area was valiantly defended by blockaders who faced loggers attempting to fell trees on them, a truck running their picket line and injuring a protester, and cops clubbing the heads of high school students… Now, less than a year later, the rapacious Eel River Sawmills has resubmitted virtually the same timber harvest plan on the same grove
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Opposition to Maxxam’s forest extermination program is taking place on all levels. Smoke bombs recently went off at the company’s Marin sales office, and a Maxxam forester received a creme pie in the face when he tried to address a forestry forum in San Francisco.
—Earth First! Ukiah
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