Final Straw: Report from the “Rogue Gold” Tree Sit

Long-running anarchist radio show and podcast, The Final Straw, features a report on a tree-sit in southern Oregon.

This week you’ll hear an interview we conducted with Cricket, a tree sitter in a tree called Goldie in southern so-called Oregon as well as D of Siskiyou Rising Tide. The two talk about the experience and efficacy of tree sits, about the land threatened by the Bureau of Land Managements plan to have Boise Cascade and other timber companies log this area they’re calling Rogue Gold, recent success of a tree sit at Poor Windy, revelations of police surveillance and some of the history of forest defense in this region.

You can find more at TreeSittersUnion.org , donate via venmo to @Cascadia-Defenders or see lovely pictures on the instagram accounts @TreeSittersUnion or @Siskiyou_RisingTide

• Police spying on Siskiyou Rising Tide: https://risingtidenorthamerica.org/2023/11/oregon-police-obsessively-spied-on-siskiyou-rising-tide-for-years-even-after-pipeline-fight-ended/
• Recent article on both tree sits: https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/tree-sit-stops-old-growth-logging-project-in-southern-oregon/
• Announcement of lawsuit by conservation groups:  https://www.kswild.org/press-releases/rogue-gold-litigation
• Another article on the BLM sale & logging: https://siskiyoucrest.com/2021/10/18/the-rogue-gold-timber-sale-logging-the-last-old-forest-above-the-rogue-river-valley/