If a Tree Files Suit in a Protest...

If a tree sues in a courtroom, does anybody hear it?  Looks like we’re going to get an answer to the quixotic question.  The League Of Wilderness Defenders and the Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project  filed suit in U.S. District Court in Eugene this week on behalf of a tract of trees in the Deschuttes National forest.   The suit challenges the Forest Service’s EXF Thinning, Fuels Reduction, and Research Project.  It’s not actually logging, y’see…it’s an “experiment”, so relax;  climb down from the tree-sit, abandon the blockade, put away the placards.  Because this is “Science”…The kind of science that includes logging of 2,554 acres of fragile habitat on lend from future generations members of which will be seriously chuffed at What We Have Wrought.  And let’s not forget that  “Science” and “Experiments” in the hands of future generations might lead to the invention of time travel, making it possible for the abovementioned future generations to cruise through Cascadia and beat us like a redheaded stepchild:  There will Be Blood.   The core of the case is the Forest Service’s failure to base the project on sound science, adequately protect wildlife, provide for future research needs, and the project's overall severe degradation of one of the area's last remaining natural forest ecosystems.  Dr. Ed Royce at the University of California Davis, Asante Riverwind, Conservation & Arts Director,   Gaia Ki;   Ecological Advocate,  and Karen Coulter also with the  Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project and the Project on Corporations, Law and Democracy are lined up against the USFS and you can join them.  If this “experiment” is science, then I’m an astronaut…