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Don’t cut that tree!
A group of (literal) tree huggers is protesting the cutting of some trees in Mass. by sitting in them. Two of these eco-wackos have been camped in two trees in the eight-acre area that the Wachusett Mountain ski resort wants to cut to expand their business. The resort has state approval to cut in the forest, which is part of the lease granted to them by the state, and has won several approvals in court.
Of course, the tree huggers are too dumb to understand that all the loggers have to do is cut down all but those two trees around them, which is what is happening. And the resort has cut off all access to the area from the outside, which is their right since it is privately controlled property, so that other eco-loonies can’t re-supply them. And even if they manage to hang on without re-supply, I think that by the time the first snow flies, they’ll be re-thinking their position, literally and figuratively. Or maybe even sooner if Hurricane Isabel makes a visit in the area.
Here are some choice bon mots from the huggers:
- “I’m feeling sad that money has triumphed over what is right in this case,‘’ said one tree sitter, who gave her name as Dandi Lyon, [Get it? Dandelion? So clever.] in a cellphone interview while cutting crews worked their way up the mountain yesterday. “A lot of lives are being lost right now in this forest.“
- ‘'We view this as a poster child for the wanton and woeful abuse of our public lands,‘’ lamented James McCaffrey, director of the Massachusetts Sierra Club which opposes the ski area expansion.
- ‘'I’m scared for our safety, as well as the safety of everything in the forest,‘’ said Lyon. [Then get out of the tree.]
Update: The tree huggers have left their trees. Of course, being the sensitive environmentalist types they are, they “left no trace” and packed out all their garbage, right?
Environmental activists perched 80 feet up a pair of red oaks since Aug. 1 to protest the expansion of the Wachusett Mountain ski area in central Massachusetts abandoned their platforms early Tuesday morning, leaving behind the remains of their forts and buckets of human waste.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Dandi Lyon. Oh, and it turns out they’re members of the eco-terrorist group, EarthFirst! (Make sure you have the exclamation point in there; and it’s so trendy to run the two words together with internal capitalization, like they’re a dot-com or something.)
I have to love their reactions too.
She said workers from the ski area cut down the food and water supplies she and another tree sitter had hung from ropes. Police officers hired by the ski area to patrol the area began intimidating the activists, she said. “They turned the mountain into a virtual police state,“ she said.
No, it’s not a police state. It’s called private property. But then for liberal busybodies, such distinctions are irrelevant.
They evidently began their sitting on August 1.
Dandi had passed her time in the tree by teaching herself sign language and adding to her collection of environmentally themed children’s stories, none of which has been published. Before installing herself in the oak, Dandi said she was unemployed and living with friends in Fitchburg. She was supposed to start a job picking blueberries, but backed out when she heard about the need for a tree sitter.
I’m shocked to find that she is an unemployed layabout with nothing better to do than harass law-abiding people. I wonder where she gets her money to live on.
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