Eyewitness Report: Officers violate No-Logging Injunction at Mattole action

Several people and were gathered at the end of a gated logging road. With them were others a little further up a logging road who were watching carefully the actions of the local county authorities who were attempting to cut away several of their campanions attached via chains and other devices to a steel gate.

With their bodies chained to the forest gate, these citizens were attempting to enforce an injunction against the cutting ALL of timber ("what part of 'no logging' do you not understand," the surprised Judge was reported to have said in nearby Eureka during the previous Friday's hearing). Humboldt County Sheriffs have been allowing the breaking of the injunction and with it the law. Officers Miller and Anthoason were at the scene under the color of this "law". [ Read More ]