The Portland Tribune has a good article on the Myrtle Creek Timber Sale near Crater Lake
Tree Sitters Protest Logging Viewed as New Model for BLM
Created on Thursday, 02 January 2014 23:14 | | 
Last year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management sold the rights to log a small grove of Douglas firs to a private company called Roseburg Forest Products.
Roseburg bid more than $1 million for the trees, and planned to start logging this fall.
Then the tree sitters showed up.
Stationed on wooden platforms and rope lines 100 feet in the air, members of the group Cascadia Forest Defenders are protesting what they claim is a clear cut of native forest. But the scheduled logging is also part of a pilot project designed by Northwest forestry professors to mimic nature.
The professors' plan has become politically popular and is a key component of bills proposing new management for Oregon's O&C Lands -- a checkerboard of parcels in Western Oregon named for the Oregon & California Railroad that once owned them. Those on both sides of the protest say it's potentially the first battle in the next big debate over how to manage Northwest forests.
link to the whole article http://portlandtribune.com/sl/206426-63250-tree-sitters-protest-logging-viewed-as-new-model-for-blm
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