Earth First! – IWW Local #1 members were not bluffing when they kicked off Corporate Fall by announcing that they would be taking the protests out of the woods and into the boardrooms and homes of the employing class. Earth First! artist Thomas Yeates designed a new ampaign image to accompany all Earth First! “Corporate Fall” press releases.[1] On September 27, 1990, less than two weeks after kicking off the new round of campaigns, Darryl Cherney traveled to Houston, Texas, location of the headquarters of Maxxam corporation and the home of its CEO, Charles Hurwitz.[2] Hurwitz tried, unsuccessfully, to get an injunction against the protest, because he allegedly feared that Darryl Cherney hadn’t merely been spouting off about “strapping a body bomb to himself” on 60 Minutes back in March; Cherney—who had no intention whatsoever of ever actually doing such a thing—jokingly quipped, “Charlie was last seen cowering under his desk with his fingers in his ears.”[3] Cherney repeated the established fact that Pacific Lumber had tripled its cut since Maxxam had raided its 195,000 acres of forestlands in the hostile takeover in 1985, figures that Maxxam vice president Byron Wade disputed. Wade declared, “We have some of the best foresters in the country telling us how to selectively harvest our land. We also file our harvest plans with the government before we put them into action.”[4] Evidently Wade was convinced that the general public was clueless, because such statements omitted the very basic fact that filing THPs in advance had been required since the passage of the Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practices Act in 1973, but since then most THPs had been rubber stamped by the CDF—according to the LSA report that the CDF had commissioned.[5] In any case, several Maxxam’s THPs had been rejected by the corporate friendly CDF simply because even they found them to be too egregious.[6]
Houston Earth First!ers were joined by Cherney as well as members of the Union of Independent Artists outside of Maxxam’s brand new, and even more lavish headquarters at the intersection of San Felipe and Augusta in the Lone Star State’s southern metropolis. The presence of the artists, who brought samples of their art, including animal sculptures, oil paintings, and masks had been inspired by Maxxam’s earlier attempt to requesting that the Houston Police revoke the permit of artist Richard Roederer, whose controversial oil painting of the recent Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska’s Prince William Sound had angered Maxxam.[7] 150 demonstrators, including 125 mostly new Earth First!ers[8], some of them dressed in animal costume, and one dressed as a ten-foot tall waking redwood tree, attended chanting “stumps suck”, and carrying large photos of Hurwitz adorned with the caption, “Today Hurwitz, tomorrow (Donald) Trump.”[9] One demonstrator, who had traveled from Austin, bore a similar sign with Hurwitz image, but instead captioned, “A real chump off an old stump.”[10] The event’s organizers had notified at least 5,000 Houstonians in advance through a public outreach campaign. Said Cherney, “We’re ecstatic that the people of Houston are going after this redwood vampire in his corporate crypt. That’s what Corporate Fall is all about—going after the corporate executives in their urban ivory towers and their estate homes.”[11] The Eureka Times-Standard ruefully questioned how Earth First!ers like Darryl Cherney could spend money traipsing off to Houston from Humboldt County when the Lorax 10 had cost the county $17,000.[12] They never questioned Hurwitz’s siphoning billions of dollars out of the forests and workers’ pension funds for his own private gain, however.
There were no Corporate Fall demonstrations targeting Georgia-Pacific’s T. Marshall Hahn specifically, as he mostly left the local decisions to his lieutenants in the region. G-P spokesman David Odgers quipped, “The name ‘Corporate Fall’ doesn’t have a good ring to it. They’re going to have a hard time selling it. Redwood Summer had a good ring.”[13] L-P’s President, Harry A. Merlo, on the other hand, had fifteen “second” homes all over the region, including a particularly opulent estate[14] located at 3495 Skaggs Springs to Stewart Point Road in northern Sonoma County near Lake Sonoma west of US 101 between Healdsburg and Cloverdale.[15]Although the dwelling itself was modest, even by “middle class” standards[16], Merlo had commissioned the creation of a 100 acre, artificial lake, which he had named after himself, as the centerpiece of an estate encompassing hundreds of acres. Redwood Summer organizers had originally conceived of organizing a flotilla to storm this particular secondary estate of Merlo’s, thinking his land actually stood adjacent to the nearby and much larger Lake Sonoma. In a long forgotten press release, in response to the barrage of criticisms and charges leveled against him by local environmentalists and not too few timber workers, Merlo had said he’d like to, “sit down with the environmentalists (and) talk things over—like have lunch,” though of course, it’s doubtful that he seriously meant this.[17] Earth First! – IWW Local #1 members decided, as part of Corporate Fall, to take this invitation literally and drop into Merlo’s Sonoma County estate to where he allegedly would retreat to forget about his status as “Mendocino County’s Public Enemy Number One” (at least in the eyes of timber workers and environmentalists).[18] The initial attendees at the first Corporate Fall meeting turned out to mostly consist of the very same people who had attended the initial Redwood Summer organizing meetings, and all of them agreed that since Merlo was an extremely “high profile” target due in part to Redwood Summer, but also due to his meetings with Mikhail Gorbachev as part of the latter’s “Perestroika” efforts, the action should be spread only by word-of-mouth to trusted allies.[19]
On Monday, October 15, 1990[20], on what Anna Marie Stenberg described as a hot—though not scorching—beautiful and sunny day, a handful of activists, including Stenberg, met at the Dry Creek Deli in Cloverdale and finished making protest signs. Stenberg had almost not made it to the initial meeting, having been ticketed for speeding, at which point she almost jokingly told the officer issuing the citation that she would be late for an important lunch date. At 8:30, a half dozen activists, including Elk Residents Linda Aubrey and Polly Girvin, the attorneys who helped organize the “Breakfast First!” protests in August, piled into Stenberg’s eleven-year-old Chevy station wagon, or “tuna boat” as she called it and proceeded to Merlo’s “Shangri-la”. Said Stenberg of the Breakfast First!ers, “I told them on the phone, ‘Hey, we have a great action, you’ll love it!’ and they trusted me.” They were joined by several other cars full of fellow protesters. Before departing, the group made some last minute strategic decisions, including ordering the delivery of a truck full of woodchips that was to be dropped off at the driveway to Merlo’s estate. The convoy proceeded to that location, taking twenty minutes to arrive.[21] Meanwhile, a second group of demonstrators had arrived early, and decorated the approach to the estate with a huge banner across the driveway and spread the wood chips across it; others festooned the nearby hillsides, roadway, and bordering fences with protest signs.[22] These were adorned with slogans such as “LP’s Infinity Logging: No Trees, No Jobs, No Life”; “Harry Merlo, Wanted for Corporate Crime”, and “Merlo the Murderer”, which was specifically in reference to Fortunado Reyes. A few of the signs were arranged in classic “Burma Shave” sequence, though they called out Merlo for his corporate crimes rather than cleverly hocking the by then defunct brand of brushless shaving cream.[23] One of these read “THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT RAPE BUILT.”[24]
All told, about fifty demonstrators from as far south as the San Francisco Bay Area and as far north as Arcata had converged at the Shangri-la.[25] Earth First!er Robert Parker[26], wearing a shirt reading “Vicious Hippy” (no doubt in defiance of the Stompers who had threatened to burn Bari’s “Hippie Shack” the previous month for which he had been called in to help defend) operated a sound truck with a huge loudspeaker, audibly blasting a tape of Darryl Cherney protest songs directed at Harry Merlo, prerecorded specifically for the event—since Cherney was still in Houston—including songs like El Pio alternating with speeches by the event’s organizers. “We found Merlo. We’ll find the rest of them”, shouted Naomi Wagner. “These guys have names and addresses” added Pam Davis, “We will expose them for what they are.”[27] At least one unnamed Sonoma County resident declared, “We’re here to bring the war on the environment home to those responsible.”[28] The set up recalled the recent US Invasion of Panama and siege of (former US puppet dictator) Manuel Noriega, who had taken up refuge in the Vatican Embassy there. US Army troops had harassed the strongman by blasting rock and roll music through a much larger and more powerful sound system until the latter surrendered. Meanwhile, a number of rally goers bounced around the very same ten-feet-in-diameter inflatable Earth Ball which had made an appearance at the rally in Fort Bragg. Local 1 member Tom Cahill reprised his famous hardhat trick, in which he removed a helmet adorned with model railway shrubs, now captioned, “Ask me what a clearcut is!” which was then removed to reveal—written in ink on his bald head—“The Great Mendocino Desert.”[29] L-P had planted a small tree farm and fenced it in on a plot of land adjacent to the estate, so one demonstrator made a sign that read, “L-P OLD GROWTH FOREST,” and hung it on the fence.[30]
Merlo didn’t emerge, nor did anyone else, so after a short period, demonstrators turned down the music, while small delegation entered the estate, and proceeded towards Merlo’s house.[31] Those that remained by the side of the road continued to seek attention from passersby which included, ironically, L-P log trucks hauling “pecker poles”.[32] The grounds were lavishly landscaped and included private tennis courts, horse stables, and a three-car garage.[33] In the latter were two-three wheeled off road vehicles—vehicles of which members of the Sahara Club would have had a strong affinity—as well as a motorcycle, a “real fancy jeep”, and an enormous stuffed moose that Merlo had apparently hunted and killed.[34] Nearly every participant in the demonstration who later wrote about their experiences mentioned the presence of a large and imposing, functional cannon near the dwelling[35], “to overlook the southern ramparts of Cloverdale” according to Bruce Anderson.[36] Demonstrators filled the giant gun’s barrel with flowers and pasted an Earth First! sticker on its barrel. They then proceeded to Merlo’s one-floor ranch style home which was a three bedroom cottage, with a kitchen and a large living room, made entirely of wood, surrounded by what was most likely an old growth redwood deck, the centerpiece of which was an enormous hot tub Jacuzzi. The only sentry—if it could be considered one at all—was an extremely friendly puppy-dog who greeted the demonstrators by practically “licking them to death”.[37] The demonstrators responded by tying a green ribbon to its collar before leaving the canine to its own devices.[38] Through the windows of Merlo’s vacation home, demonstrators could see dozens of animal skin rugs, including one with a bear’s head, and on the walls, too, were animal skins, including a lynx and other rare cats. A giant stuffed marlin adorned one wall.[39] Tom Cahill described the grotesque display as “glaring trophies of Merlo’s war against the environment that included defenseless animals as well as trees and people. This was too much for at least one unnamed demonstrator who had to be restrained from attempting to “liberate” the display[40], though the temptation to do so was shared by most present.[41]
With their sheer numbers and the amount of time they had available, the activists could have done a world of damage to Merlo’s unguarded abode[42], but, using “impeccable manners and good cheer”, chose instead to celebrate life and make a few pointed political statements.
Somehow, an unnamed IWW member gained access to Merlo’s home through an open door to one of the three bedrooms, made a place setting at Merlo’s dining room table consisting of a plate full of woodchips, knife, fork, and spoon, and fine linen napkins. This same individual duplicated their efforts on what Anna Marie Stenberg described as an anarchronistically[43] cheap patio table as fellow demonstrators chanted, “Let him eat chips,” in reference to Merlo’s plans to replace lumber production with capital intensive waferboard. Many of the demonstrators congregated on Melro’s porch, eating a picnic lunch of cheese and crackers, sitting in Merlo’s deckchairs and singing a variation of I’m just wild about Harry with Earth First! specific lyrics.[44] Anna Marie Stenberg recalls that the day was hot enough to make a dip in the hot tub a tempting notion, and a handful of those assembled entertained humorous thoughts of Merlo draining and disinfecting it to remove the skuzzy remains of Earth First!ers. An unidentified demonstrator walked over to the tub, removed the cover, dipped in their hands and feet, and exclaimed, “Let’s do it!” Egging each other on, and responding to the friendly dares of their fellow demonstrators, five demonstrators[45] fully or partially disrobed (Stenberg wore her red IWW shirt and underwear) and took a dip in the tub as the festivities continued.[46]
About forty five minutes after the demonstration began, stunned L-P ranch hands finally appeared[47], lead by a man dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt, but looking more like a Wall Street stockbroker or a 1930s business man than a rural caretaker, in Stenberg’s eyes. He had a cell phone tucked into his belt. The leader initially approached a male demonstrator by the now redecorated cannon, who greeted him cordially, as he walked past, only to almost burst into laughter as he spied the mostly naked protesters in Merlo’s Jacuzzi. Maintaining his composure, however the ranch hand approached the hot tubers.[48]
“Hi, who are you?” asked Anna Marie Stenberg.[49]
“Who are you? Is more the question,” responded the ranch hand.
“No, I need to know who you are,” asked Stenberg, “are you trespassing?” to which the other demonstrators giggled,” [50]
“I’m a concerned citizen,” replied the ranch hand, refusing to give his name.[51]
“So am I, we all are!” she responded and offered her hand to the befuddled man, who demurred. It was apparent that his intent was to make a citizen’s arrest. “Harry invited us to lunch, but he is obviously late. We decided to take a tub while we were waiting. Where are the controls for the tub? It’s a little too cool and there’s much chlorine!” she continued.
The man reached for his phone and called Merlo’s secretary, a woman named Rose. Evidently the demonstrators were convincing enough for him to confirm their story, that he had a luncheon date with them.
As if to further the illusion, Stenberg continued, “Well, I thought it was to be here, at ‘Shangri-la.’ Maybe we got the wrong house. Ask him to check his other residences as well.”
“No, there’s no appointment for you,” replied the man. The demonstrators admonished him to check the whole week in case either party had the wrong date, which he did. Sensing that they had successfully hooked the ranch hand, the protesters began to discuss L-Ps union busting, logging to infinity, and the recent slaughter of Osprey Grove. The man then informed the demonstrators that Rose could find no luncheon date anywhere on Merlo’s appointment calendar.
“Oh well,” said Stenberg, “we might as well enjoy ourselves while we’re here,” and reentered the hot tub.[52]
“You’re all going to have to leave,” the ranch hand declared, and proceeded to take Polaroid pictures of the demonstrators in the hot tub, on the deck, and in the driveway.[53]
At some point the ranch hand, his assistants, or Merlo’s secretary must have called the police whose first contact with the demonstrators was by helicopter which circled overhead for several hours, expending a substantial amount of fuel in the eyes of many demonstrators.[54] Some of the latter still on Merlo’s driveway, mocking the perceived overkill of law enforcement, formed themselves into giant renditions of the letters “EF” complete with the trademark exclamation point so that the pilots would know that they had found the correct address. The demonstrators on the deck, in the hot tub, and by the cannon, meanwhile, withdrew from Merlo’s property and onto the public road.[55] At least nine police cars and vans arrived at the scene, and nearly fourteen sheriffs’ deputies emerged from them.[56] Many additional officers and police dogs appeared and stood by, many with their hands in their pockets assessing the situation.[57] These were followed by the CHP and two unmarked carloads of FBI agents.[58] It was as if they had expected to arrest hoards of people above and beyond whom they found.[59] The unfazed demonstrators simply turned the music back up and resumed discussing lunch plans. The flabbergasted law enforcement officers were unsure of what to do. It was if they expected an unruly mob, but instead found a group of frolicking and quite pleasant locals—the signs and slogans notwithstanding. At one point there were more police than demonstrators, All of the latter were unarmed which was quite a contrast from the armed-to-the-teeth law enforcement agents. The presence of the press, which by this time was fairly substantial, no doubt helped keep the police in line.[60]
The demonstrators had hoped to cap off their demonstration by blocking a logging truck right in front of Merlo’s “Shangri-la”, which would have been icing on the cake given the potential media coverage. This was not to be, however.[61] The CHP established roadblocks about two miles apart on both ends of the section of road near Merlo’s land, ostensibly to minimize “conflict” between the log truck drivers and the protesters, but more likely to prevent any additional demonstrators from reaching the site.[62] At least one demonstrator carrying a CB radio reconnoitered the roadblocks in order to see if CHP would let any through their blockade, only to find that her radio had failed. She then attempted to stop a truck on her own only to be nearly run over by the defiant driver who sped past dangerously only to run off the road right in front of Merlo’s driveway after almost sideswiping the parked police vehicles and media vans not to mention the law enforcement officers standing by. Nevertheless, nobody among the latter made any move to cite or even stop and warn the reckless driver.[63] What police were not busy standing by were engaged in photographing and demanding official identification from everyone leaving the area, including a few passing, bewildered tourists. One car was even sent back up the hill towards the estate, and subsequently a man from Arcata who was either driving or riding in it was arrested on charges of trespassing.[64]
By then the protesters were hot, tried, and shell shocked by the reckless trucker and decided by consensus to end their occupation. They attempted repeatedly to negotiate with Sonoma County Sheriff’s Captain John Sully who was in charge of the scene, but the latter, perhaps on advice from the federal agents wouldn’t agree unless the demonstrators gave the names of all who had participated in the protest.[65] This demand was not acceptable to the demonstrators.[66] The police then offered to let most of the demonstrators leave without an ID check as long as they could arrest those they perceived to be the “leaders.” This was nonnegotiable to the protesters however, who had no intention of letting the authorities isolate any of the group.[67] Sensing that negotiations with law enforcement were futile at this point, the demonstrators decided to leave en masse.[68] The police responded by arresting those they thought were the leaders anyway, beginning with Brian White (who was a teenage and the youngest of the group) [69] followed by Tom Cahill (who already had an FBI rap sheet for nonviolent antiwar protests and IWW organizing activity that took place in Houston, Texas in the 1960s), Anna Marie Stenberg (who was told by a deputy she was under arrest who then quickly grabbed who grabbed her arm, forced it behind her back, and handcuffed her in seconds), Karen Pickett, and Pam Davis.[70] The ranch hand had evidently identified them from his Polaroids. The five were charged with—among other things—interfering with an arrest.[71] The arrestees were taken to the Sonoma County jail in Santa Rosa, where they were booked and held. Along the way they sang Earth First! songs, feeling jubilant at their success, but when they reached their destination, they were in for an ordeal.[72] Anna Marie Stenberg described the details of their detainment thusly:
“They took us in…No one read rights to us the whole 12 hours they held us. We were in this holding cell, cement and iron, and we were freezing. These nice Mexican women, who were in there and knew the ropes, said to us, ‘Watch, when it gets dark the air conditioner will come on.’ And sure enough, it did!
“Karen asked about 12 times for a blanket, but of course we never got one. She had on shorts and thongs, summery clothing. Karen kept calling people on the phone in there, collect like you have to do. That’s how she dealt with being in there. They have to let you go after 12 hours or charge you and put you in a regular jail cell. They kept us the full 12 hours.”[73]
The arrestees were cited out at 3:30 AM after all public transit service was done for the night, but luckily their fellow demonstrators and allies had arranged to pick them up from the jail.[74] The arrestees’ bail had been set at $1,000, but they chose to remain in jail instead.[75] Despite their treatment, the five felt that the demonstration had been worth the effort. Said Stenberg, “It was such a great bargain (being able to use Merlo’s hot tub in exchange for 12 hours in jail); I’d do it again in a minute.”[76]
The public reaction to the event from the public was mostly favorable.[77] The local mainstream media covered the event as well as the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.[78] Even the Press Democrat’s article covering the event quoted the ranch hand as saying, “the vandalism was nothing serious”.[79] The front page article ran alongside another describing Mikhail Gorbechev’s receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. Still, L-P spokesman Barry Slacter decried the “adolescent behavior” of Earth First! warranting any media attention at all.[80] This prompted Tom Cahill to fire off an angry response pointing out that given the number of demonstrators present and the time in which they had to do it, had they chosen to, they could have caused serious and expensive damage. They chose not to due to their commitment to nonviolence. Cahill noted the inconsistencies in law enforcement’s treatment of the demonstrators in contrast with their indifferent attitude towards the reckless log truck driver. This consistently followed the all too familiar legal double standards extant in both Mendocino and Humboldt County wherein dissidents were treated as dangerous criminals while far more violent acts towards those very same dissidents by non dissident individuals as well as corporate crimes were generally ignored. Cahill elaborated:
“If this doesn’t demonstrate the bias of law enforcement, perhaps an incident last July here in Fort Bragg might. Back then, three white youths claiming they were Klansmen nearly beat to death a homeless black man. To my knowledge we five arrested at Mr. Merlo’s play house have already served more time than the three thugs who have all received probation because of their cooperation with District Attorney Susan Massini. But of course we know property rights are far more important to those who control government than human rights or the Earth’s rights.”[81]
Harry Merlo’s reaction was predictably bitter and he used the event as an excuse to withdraw all offers to sell Osprey Grove to Save the Redwoods League, though the likelihood is that Merlo would likely have done this anyway, because he also cited the twelve lawsuits pending against L-P for violations of the Z’berg-Nejedly Forest Practices Act. Said Merlo to STRL executive director John de Witt, “It’s timberland and we don’t want to sell it.”[82] A big deal was also made over the fact that some demonstrators spray painted a list or Merlo’s corporate crimes on the latter’s driveway, although the fact that paints were water soluble and easily removed was not so widely reported.[83] Another matter that escaped attention was that the event’s organizers prevented the would-be vandals from doing the same on the more porous Redwood deck.[84] One reactionary critic accused the graffiti artists of “poisoning the atmosphere with paint from aerosol spray cans,” never once considering that relative to L-P’s clearcutting, thus much smaller action was very insignificant.[85] However, at least one gyppo operator reportedly was very enthused by the action. According to Anna Marie Stenberg, upon her return home to Fort Bragg from the Sonoma County Jail, she received a phone call from Jerry Philbrick who told her, “That a girl Anna Marie! You took it to The Man, like I told you to.”[86]
The five arrestees had to wait until December to discover the outcome of their charges. On December 3, 1990, in Santa Rosa, all of the charges against Cahill, Stenberg, and White were dropped. Most of the charges against Davis and Pickett were likewise dismissed, and for those that weren’t, the two were sentenced to twenty-four hours of community service in Sonoma County.[87]
Notes:
[1] A copy of the image accompanies the article mentioned in the next reference, but the Utah Phillips quote, mentioned below, is omitted. Copies of original Corporate Fall Press Releases include the quotation.
[2] “Artists Protest Maxxam’s New Headquarters”, press release, Earth First! Journal, Samhain / November 1, 1990.
[3] “EF! Goes to Houston”, press release, Ecotopia Earth First! Extra, Special Baby Treesus Issue / December 1990.
[4] “Protesters Decry Redwood Harvest by City Company”, by Derick Rill, Houston Post, September 28, 1990.
[5] “An Interview With Kelpie Wilson”, by Sharon Seidenstien, Ecology Center Newsletter, October 1990.
[6] “Headwaters Saved”, by Brian Wyatt, Ecotopia Earth First! Extra, Special Baby Treesus Issue / December 1990.
[7] “Artists Protest Maxxam’s New Headquarters”, press release, Earth First! Journal, Samhain / November 1, 1990.
[8] “1990: A Year in the Life of Earth First!”, by Judi Bari, Anderson Valley Advertiser, January 2, 1991.
[9] “EF! Goes to Houston”, press release, Ecotopia Earth First! Extra, Special Baby Treesus Issue / December 1990.
[10] “Protesters Decry Redwood Harvest by City Company”, by Derick Rill, Houston Post, September 28, 1990. This publication greatly underestimated the crowd, placing the number of demonstrators at a mere fifty.
[11] “Artists Protest Maxxam’s New Headquarters”, press release, Earth First! Journal, Samhain / November 1, 1990.
[12] “Sigh! - Here We Go Again”, editorial, Eureka Times-Standard, September 19, 1990
[13] “Earth First! targets Firms in Fall Protests”, Eureka Times-Standard, September 18, 1990.
[14] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991. In both publications the article is slightly abridged in different places, evidently derived from a single, longer source. Cahill’s writing tends to be long on extraneous, though interesting, details, likely resulting in the edits.
[15] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[16] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[17] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[18] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[19] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[20] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[21] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[22] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[23] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991. For those unfamiliar with the rhyming sign sequence advertising technique introduced by Burma Shave in the late 1920s and used by the company more and more frequently along major US Highways until the introduction of the much more modern Interstate Highway system in 1956 made the technique largely obsolete (due to the inability of most drivers to read the signs at the much faster speeds at which they could now drive), an example from 1947 went, “I use it too / The bald man said / It keeps my face / Just like / My head / Burma-Shave”. The technique became something of a cultural meme by the 1950s but is now all but forgotten outside of pop-cultural references, such as episodes of M*A*S*H, for example, which recall the Korean War of the early 1950s.
[24] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[25] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[26] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[27] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[28] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[29] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[30] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[31] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[32] “Here and There in Mendocino County”, by Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 17, 1990.
[33] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[34] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[35] The cannon is mentioned in “Here and There in Mendocino County”, by Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 17, 1990; “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990, [35] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990, and “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[36] “Here and There in Mendocino County”, by Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 17, 1990.
[37] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[38] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[39] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[40] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[41] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[42] Letter to the editor by Tom Cahill, various publication, Mendocino Commentary, October 18, 1990, and Mendocino Beacon, October 25, 1990 (“Who is Really Guilty”).
[43] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[44] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[45] “Here and There in Mendocino County”, by Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, October 17, 1990.
[46] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[47] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[48] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[49] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[50] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[51] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991. Cahill confirms that the conversation took place between the ranch hand and Stenberg, a fact that Stenberg didn’t reveal in her account.
[52] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[53] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[54] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990; “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990; “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[55] “Hot Tubbing at Harry’s”, Press Relese, Ecotopia Earth First! Extra, Special Baby Treesus Issue / December 1990.
[56] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990 and “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[57] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[58] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[59] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[60] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[61] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[62] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[63] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[64] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[65] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[66] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[67] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[68] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[69] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[70] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[71] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[72] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[73] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[74] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[75] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[76] “Hot Tubbing at Harry’s”, Press Relese, Ecotopia Earth First! Extra, Special Baby Treesus Issue / December 1990.
[77] “A Visit to Harry’s House”, anonymous, Sonoma County Earth First! Newsletter, Press Release, Fall 1990.
[78] See for example, Earth First! Protesters Hit Ranch”, AP Wire, Ukiah Daily Journal, October 16, 1990; and “Locals Arrested in EF! Protest”, Mendocino Beacon, October 18, 1990.
[79] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[80] “L-P Chief’s Home Occupied by Foes”, by xxx xxxx, Santa Rosa Press Democrat, October 16, 1990.
[81] Letter to the editor by Tom Cahill, various publications, including Mendocino Commentary, October 18, 1990 (no title); and Mendocino Beacon, October 25, 1990 (“Who is Really Guilty”).
[82] “L-P Refuses to Sell Osprey Grove”, by Richard Johnson, Mendocino Country Environmentalist, December 1, 1990.
[83] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[84] “The First of Earth First!’s Visits to the Rich and Famous”, by Tom Cahill, Industrial Worker, December 1990 and Earth First! Journal, Brigid / February 2, 1991.
[85] “They Showed Their True Colors”, letter to the editor by Robert E. Eagle, Ukiah Daily Journal, November 23, 1990.
[86] “Hot Tubbin at Harry’s: Anna Marie Stenberg”, interview by Lynne Dahl, New Settler Interview, issue #54, December 1990.
[87] “Here and There in Mendocino County”, by Bruce Anderson, Anderson Valley Advertiser, December 5, 1990.