Do you consider yourelf a tree hugger?

[aaf709]

Did you see The Simpsons episode Lisa the Treehugger? It's a humorous look being a treehugger. The site mentions this:

In 1997, a 1000-year-old redwood
tree in Homboldt County, California, was slated to be hewn by Pacific
Lumber, a logging company owned by Texas-based Maxxam Corporation. On
December 10 of that year, 25-year-old Julia "Butterfly" Hill of
Fayetteville, Ark., a member of the environmental activist movement Earth
First! and also co-founder of the Circle of Life Foundation, volunteered to
climb 180 feet up into the tree, which she named Luna.

Tree sitting is a common tactic used by Earth First! participants and other
anti-logging activists, but few could have expected the astonishing
resilience that Hill displayed. Living on a platform constructed 180 feet
off the ground, and communicating with the outside world through a cell
phone and walkie-talkie, Hill endured threats from Pacific Lumber, which
used floodlights and airhorns in attempts to extract her from the tree, as
well as reportedly sending the police to disrupt Hill's associates on the
ground, who supplied her with water and food. Nevertheless, Hill claimed
that she promised the tree its survival, and in December 1999, just over
two years after Butterfly first ascended Luna, Pacific Lumber agreed to
spare the historic redwood and a 20-foot buffer zone.

Since leaving the tree, Julia Hill has published a coffee-table book, The
Legacy of Luna, with all profits benefiting her Circle of Life Foundation,
and continues to speak out for the security of the redwoods. Hill's two-
year-long-plus tree sit is listed by the Guinness Book as the longest such
feat in U.S. history. It's very easy to dismiss "Butterfly" as a
treehugging kook -- she claimed that she communicated with Luna through the
Universal Spirit -- but it's difficult to deny that her personal courage is
staggering.

[darelldd]

I voted no, though I do agree with most of what a tree-hugger would stand for. And most people just assume that I am (see picture below made by a friend). Mostly I do what I can with what I have for the good of the environemnt. I do try to stay within the bounds of normal human behavior (possibly excepting the EV stuff!) "Environmentalist" has such an amazingly negative connotation now, that it boggles my mind.

[AuntBee]

Tree Hugger? yes, and proud of it. Just today, I got my pack of tree sapplings in the mail from Arbor Day Foundation! yeah--can't wait to plant them in ground. I love Spring--it's a great time of year for tree huggers like me.

[Frank Hudon]

look at the 0 key on your numeric pad and then realize that our climax forest is infested with a little beetle that size. And it has killed 40-50% of all the trees in the non coastal forest of the whole province. Last time I heard a quote it was 340,000 hectars about the size of the state of Missouri and Arkansas combined. Hug a tree, long past that point. The last big clear cut to try and harvest some value from that dying forest the shuttle astronauts could see the clear cut from space. The only other cure is not very nice. Fire, that is mother natures way of controlling the Mountain Pine beetle. Burn that many trees would create a brown cloud that would circle the earth.

[brasche]

I'm buying as many low lying forested as I can afford! Keeping the logging tree theives away is my biggest concern!

[imntacrook]

Definately am! Plant them any chance I get.

[MyPria]

A "tree hugger"- I don't think so. But, I do love my nearly 2 acres of Ponderosa pine trees. I also love my woodburning stove when it's heating my home. Isn't it wonderful that trees are a renewable energy source, unlike oil?

[Begreen]

I think of my self more as a Bush whacker.

[tripp]

Originally posted by Frank Hudon@Mar 7 2006, 09:48 PM
look at the 0 key on your numeric pad and then realize that our climax forest is infested with a little beetle that size. And it has killed 40-50% of all the trees in the non coastal forest of the whole province. Last time I heard a quote it was 340,000 hectars about the size of the state of Missouri and Arkansas combined. Hug a tree, long past that point. The last big clear cut to try and harvest some value from that dying forest the shuttle astronauts could see the clear cut from space. The only other cure is not very nice. Fire, that is mother natures way of controlling the Mountain Pine beetle. Burn that many trees would create a brown cloud that would circle the earth.

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I agree. The beetles (not the Beatles) have wrought havoc here in CO too. The dead and dying should be logged and used for some beneficial purpose. Preferably biomass to energy or the like. That amount of wood could be used to produce a LOT of energy.

[fuelsipper]

Originally posted by Frank Hudon@Mar 6 2006, 09:24 PM
log it, burn it and pave it. The lumber industry pays most of my wages. I do recycle and try to minimise my impact but I'm not an enviromentalist.

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It has and is being logged here in Oregon, and not in the manner that would be beneficial to the logging industry or the people who live here.

Burn it?

Fix the roads we have, we don't need more.

Ever wonder why the fishing industry (Salmon in particular) is hurting so bad on the west coast?
logging practices, among other things..

I am NOT the church going kind, but ever hear "reap what your sow"?