Explanatory commentary by Judi Bari, copied from 1990: A Year in the Life of Earth First! published in the Anderson Valley Advertiser, January 2, 1991, reprinted in Reprinted in Timber Wars, © 1994 Common Courage Press (recopied according to "Fair Use" guidelines)
Okerstrom’s new feller-buncher was still chugging away in the already moonscaped Noyo area. So IWW-EF! Eco-Trans came to the rescue, blocking the logging road Caltrans-style, with little orange vests and hard hats. They dumped a load of gravel in the road and shoveled it from pothole to pothole, taking long coffee breaks and leaning on their shovels.
Eco-Trans was called into action a second time on election day. As Propositions 130, 128 and 138 all went down to defeat, the real Caltrans was out on Highway 20 cutting old growth to make the world safer for automobiles. EF!-Eco-Trans warriors responded like the volunteer fire department, jumping into their vests and rushing to the scene. They threw their bodies in front of logging equipment, climbed trees and hugged trees. With some timely help from Supervisors Norm deVail and Liz Henry, the cut was stopped, and all but two trees were saved.
The 1990 Election
- Ol’, Yellow Balls - By Sequoia, Anderson Valley Advertiser, Sept. 19, 1990
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