Demonstrations Oregon

About two dozen demonstrators filed into the Milwaukie, Ore., office of the Times Mirror Land & Timber Co. on Wednesday to protest the sale of wildlife-rich old-growth timber for the lucrative export market. Demonstrator Lydia Avery of Corvallis, Ore., urged the company to spare the grove, near Opal Creek and the Bull of the Woods Wilderness east of Salem, to provide habitat for the rare northern spotted owl and preserve the site of a historic mining claim. Times Mirror Land & Timber Co.

A man protesting logging who fell 60 feet from a hemlock tree in the Tillamook State Forest was in fair condition at a Portland hospital with broken bones and a head injury. Michael Scarpitti, also known as Tre Arrow, had been clinging to the tops of trees in the forest since Wednesday to protest a thinning operation. At one point, authorities isolated him to one 100-foot hemlock by cutting nearby trees and most of the limbs from the tree where he was sitting.

Two environmental protesters came down from their treetop perches and into the waiting arms of sheriff's deputies Friday after professional climbers scaled a tree and cut loose one man's food and water. The tree-sitters were trying to stop construction of a logging road and prevent the taking of timber in a remote section of the Siskiyou National Forest. They and a third person on a ridge overlooking the site were charged with trespassing.

About 300 protesters climbed a security fence at the headgates for the Klamath irrigation project Wednesday to give federal officers papers claiming the headgates belong to local irrigators, not the federal government. The protesters, who included many farmers, handed the papers to officers from the Bureau of Land Management who have been guarding the headgates.

In a bruising loss for environmentalists, a federal appeals court Wednesday overturned an injunction protecting some Oregon habitat of the rare northern spotted owl, ruling that such protection requires a full trial. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals order was based on a 1987 federal law carried for the timber industry by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) that limits challenges of virgin timber sales by the federal Bureau of Land Management.

With a yell of "Hey, Pod!" and a ruffling of tarps, a set of legs suddenly swung out from high in the air. Brian Schulz was in his 12th hour in a "pod" made of a cargo net lashed together with cords hanging about 70 feet above a U.S. Forest Service road--and he wasn't expecting to come down any time soon. He's one of dozens of protesters trying to get logging called off in the Eagle Creek watershed of Mt.

Firing beanbag rounds from shotguns, police in riot gear tried Monday to break up a downtown May Day protest involving hundreds of people. More than a dozen demonstrators were arrested. In Olympia, Wash., several hundred May Day protesters blocked one of the capital city's busiest intersections to protest global corporations. In New York City, more than 1,000 immigrants protested outside City Hall.

Hundreds of frustrated timber workers rallied outside a union hall Friday to protest the latest in a series of court rulings protecting an endangered owl species. The rally preceded a hearing by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on its plan to set aside 11.6 million acres of forests in three Northwest states as habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl. Friday's hearing was the last of four in the region. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Dwyer in Seattle blocked the U.S.

Loggers put down their chain saws Friday, piled into trucks and set out from hamlets like Sweet Home and Myrtle Creek to tell their city-dwelling cousins that the fight to save a rare species of owl is endangering the livelihood of people who depend on timber. As many as 13,000 tree fallers, truck drivers, mill workers and their families overflowed Pioneer Square in the center of Portland for a boisterous noontime demonstration.

George Bush carried his happy message of prosperity to a throng of ardently unhappy shipyard workers here Tuesday, and the GOP presidential nominee got a surprise earful--starting with a thunderous chorus of boos. After that, the reaction of many of the 1,200 union workers toward Bush grew still coarser, even unprintable. Virtually each point in his 10-minute speech was hooted, hissed, heckled or worse.

With a yell of "Hey, Pod!" and a ruffling of tarps, a set of legs suddenly swung out from high in the air. Brian Schulz was in his 12th hour in a "pod" made of a cargo net lashed together with cords hanging about 70 feet above a U.S. Forest Service road--and he wasn't expecting to come down any time soon. He's one of dozens of protesters trying to get logging called off in the Eagle Creek watershed of Mt.

Firing beanbag rounds from shotguns, police in riot gear tried Monday to break up a downtown May Day protest involving hundreds of people. More than a dozen demonstrators were arrested. In Olympia, Wash., several hundred May Day protesters blocked one of the capital city's busiest intersections to protest global corporations. In New York City, more than 1,000 immigrants protested outside City Hall.

Hundreds of frustrated timber workers rallied outside a union hall Friday to protest the latest in a series of court rulings protecting an endangered owl species. The rally preceded a hearing by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on its plan to set aside 11.6 million acres of forests in three Northwest states as habitat for the threatened northern spotted owl. Friday's hearing was the last of four in the region. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William Dwyer in Seattle blocked the U.S.

Loggers put down their chain saws Friday, piled into trucks and set out from hamlets like Sweet Home and Myrtle Creek to tell their city-dwelling cousins that the fight to save a rare species of owl is endangering the livelihood of people who depend on timber. As many as 13,000 tree fallers, truck drivers, mill workers and their families overflowed Pioneer Square in the center of Portland for a boisterous noontime demonstration.

About two dozen demonstrators filed into the Milwaukie, Ore., office of the Times Mirror Land & Timber Co. on Wednesday to protest the sale of wildlife-rich old-growth timber for the lucrative export market. Demonstrator Lydia Avery of Corvallis, Ore., urged the company to spare the grove, near Opal Creek and the Bull of the Woods Wilderness east of Salem, to provide habitat for the rare northern spotted owl and preserve the site of a historic mining claim. Times Mirror Land & Timber Co.

In a bruising loss for environmentalists, a federal appeals court Wednesday overturned an injunction protecting some Oregon habitat of the rare northern spotted owl, ruling that such protection requires a full trial. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals order was based on a 1987 federal law carried for the timber industry by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield (R-Ore.) that limits challenges of virgin timber sales by the federal Bureau of Land Management.

About 300 protesters climbed a security fence at the headgates for the Klamath irrigation project Wednesday to give federal officers papers claiming the headgates belong to local irrigators, not the federal government. The protesters, who included many farmers, handed the papers to officers from the Bureau of Land Management who have been guarding the headgates.

A man protesting logging who fell 60 feet from a hemlock tree in the Tillamook State Forest was in fair condition at a Portland hospital with broken bones and a head injury. Michael Scarpitti, also known as Tre Arrow, had been clinging to the tops of trees in the forest since Wednesday to protest a thinning operation. At one point, authorities isolated him to one 100-foot hemlock by cutting nearby trees and most of the limbs from the tree where he was sitting.

George Bush carried his happy message of prosperity to a throng of ardently unhappy shipyard workers here Tuesday, and the GOP presidential nominee got a surprise earful--starting with a thunderous chorus of boos. After that, the reaction of many of the 1,200 union workers toward Bush grew still coarser, even unprintable. Virtually each point in his 10-minute speech was hooted, hissed, heckled or worse.

Two environmental protesters came down from their treetop perches and into the waiting arms of sheriff's deputies Friday after professional climbers scaled a tree and cut loose one man's food and water. The tree-sitters were trying to stop construction of a logging road and prevent the taking of timber in a remote section of the Siskiyou National Forest. They and a third person on a ridge overlooking the site were charged with trespassing.