12/04/2023
In recent weeks green diamond resource company brought loggers and a slew of heavy machinery into the eastern hillside of the tsurai village, removing one treesit, cutting the tree and clear cutting the surrounding canopy. Leaving just a few select trees in and around a pile of devastated second growth redwood stand.
Green Diamond has the audacity to call themselves a “forest stewardship company,” but those who live in the village confront these lies on a regular basis. Cutting along the hillside further destabilizes the ground on which occupied tree sits stand, and destroyed the vibrant ecosystem that called that hillside home. Almost everyday treesiters would be visited by flying squirrels, voles, birds and owls. Now it's quiet there.
The forest stand where the tree village is located is the largest stand of old-second growth and residual old-growth redwoods in the Tsurai area outside of local parks. These remaining areas of high quality habitat represent a fraction of the former expanse of ancient redwoods that once stood on these slopes. Logging here led to two catastrophic forest fires in the mid 1900’s. The widespread clear cutting of this land continues to this day and is no less a threat to the well-being of the wildlife and people of this area.
Arborists also rendered an estimated 1000 feet of rope unusable. We need help rebuilding in whatever way people can give. If folks are able to come and treesit for 2 weeks or longer please email [email protected]. And Venmo to support the ongoing effort of keeping the remaining trees standing. Love, grief and solidarity 💚
