Visit the Biscuit Forest With the O2 and Back To The WALL

Join the Oxygen Collective and Back To The WALL (Witness Against Lawless Logging) for an historic convergence of forest lovers from across the state in the Biscuit Fire Area of Southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains!

Swim in the amazing Illinois River! Witness the Biscuit forest hours after the Forest Service Lockout ends! Use the power of community creativity to tell the Bush bureaucrats what you think!

This FRIDAY, JULY 1ST, caravans of folk from Northern, Central and Southern Oregon will gather to bear witness and demonstrate against the ongoing destruction of native forests on public lands as part of the Bush Administration's all-out assault on our last wild places and the laws that protect them.

GET ON THE BUS!

PDX:
The WALL bus COOL will be leaving Portland Thursday evening, June 30th and will spend the night camping near the Rogue River, returning north Friday night. Contact: Joe Keating (503)234-2613 or keats@aracnet.com

Eugene:
Carpools are being arranged by Cascadia Wildlands Project, contact Josh Laughlin (541) 434-1463.

Ashland:
The Oxygen Collective bus will be leaving Evo's Cafe at 9:30 am Friday, returning in the evening. See www.o2collective.org, contact Laurel laurel@o2collective.org or (541)301-8963.

Join the Oxygen Collective and Back To The WALL (Witness Against Lawless Logging) for an historic convergence of forest lovers from across the state in the Biscuit Fire Area of Southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains!

Swim in the amazing Illinois River! Witness the Biscuit forest hours after the Forest Service Lockout ends! Use the power of community creativity to tell the Bush bureaucrats what you think!

This FRIDAY, JULY 1ST, caravans of folk from Northern, Central and Southern Oregon will gather to bear witness and demonstrate against the ongoing destruction of native forests on public lands as part of the Bush Administration's all-out assault on our last wild places and the laws that protect them.

We will start the day with a brief rally at Forest Supervisor Scott Conroy's office in Medford, where we will present him with the nefarious distinction of the Golden Stump Award. We will then head out to the Green Bridge over the picturesque, Wild and Scenic Illinois River.

The Green Bridge is the symbolic epicenter of the civil disobedience campaign opposing the massive Biscuit logging project, and has been closed off from the public by a Federal Closure Order since mid-March.

The closure order expires June 30th. Many of the arrestees will return to the Bridge this Friday for the first time since their arrest. This action is being organized to educate, inspire and energize the movement and will not involve a risk of arrest for those who do not wish it.

The Green Bridge is also the only access route to the Mike's Gulch timber sale, one of the first Roadless Area forests in the nation to face the imminent threat of industrial logging since the Bush administration repealed the popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

We will take folks on a tour of the newly accessible units of the recently logged Fiddler old growth reserve timber sale, and coordinate a creative, participative project with everyone present to send a clear message to the Forest Service and the media that we are not going away and this kind of reckless forest destruction will not be tolerated.

Come visit the amazingly beautiful Siskiyou Wild Rivers Area and take part in this precedent-setting campaign! We are making national headlines as the frontline of grassroots struggle against the industrial plunder of our precious natural heritage!

Visit www.o2collective.org for background and updates.

GET ON THE BUS!

PDX:
The WALL bus COOL will be leaving Portland Thursday evening, June 30th and will spend the night camping near the Rogue River, returning north Friday night. Contact: Joe Keating (503)234-2613 or keats@aracnet.com

Eugene:
Carpools are being arranged by Cascadia Wildlands Project, contact Josh Laughlin (541) 434-1463.

Ashland:
The Oxygen Collective bus will be leaving Evo's Cafe at 9:30 am Friday, returning in the evening. See www.o2collective.org, contact Laurel laurel@o2collective.org or (541)301-8963.

New Biscuit Camp Established!

Call out to all forest lovers!

The Siskiyou Summer push is on! Logging companies are gearing up to punch
into several Biscuit old-growth sales as we type. Logging is imminent; we
need your help!

Come join us at our community mobilization & education camp dedicated to
protection of our public lands. Located right in the heart of what's at
stake, forest defenders, community activists, and all who love wilderness
are coming together again to organize. At the camp we will be going on
hikes, teaching each other skills in areas such as: direct action,
community organizing, climbing, and local ecology. Everyone is invited -
come out for the day, a few days, or a week or more to help protect our
endangered forests.

For those who have been involved in this movement already, it is important
at this point to remember that there is MUCH left to save. We are still
waiting for rulings on lawsuits that affect many of the impending timber
sales. Stall time right now is really valuable - come help, have fun, and
defend our forests!

What to bring: yourself, prepared to camp. We will have some food to
share, but if you are able please bring some as well.

When: Now!

Directions: From the I-5, take the Merlin exit (It's north of the Grant's
Pass exits, and south of Wolf Creek & Sunny Valley exits). Head west
through the town of Merlin about 11 miles on Galice Rd. towards Galice,
then turn left onto Briggs Rd. (also known as FS 25. It's about 2 miles
after you cross the Rogue River). After turning onto Briggs Rd, go 10 1/2
miles to the detour turn, but instead of turning right, keep going
straight for 1 more mile, then take a right onto FS 100. A few hundred
yards down FS 100, take a right onto FS 600. Camp is at the end of FS 600!

(Please Note: This is a mobile camp, and the location may change depending
on the needs of the forest. Updates will be posted at www.rogueimc.org,
www.portland.indymedia.org, and www.cascadiarising.org. Or just give us a
call.)

Contact us for more info!
Wild Siskiyou Action
(541) 659-2682
siskiyou@cascadiarising.org