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Quote from: KFhunter on January 17, 2014, 08:32:27 PMDid Sitka really not know the difference Somehow I don't think so, I think he knows exactly what "conservation northwest" is. Thanks for bringing that up Bob33, I caught it too but didn't post it. Nice to have someone else calling them to task for a change. (oh btw Bob33 you just got labeled a "wolf whacko", welcome to the club!)Some conservation group. Bunch of eco-freakos. The main driving force behind the anti-hound/bait/trap initiatives.
Did Sitka really not know the difference Somehow I don't think so, I think he knows exactly what "conservation northwest" is. Thanks for bringing that up Bob33, I caught it too but didn't post it. Nice to have someone else calling them to task for a change. (oh btw Bob33 you just got labeled a "wolf whacko", welcome to the club!)
Quote from: bearpaw on January 17, 2014, 11:10:33 AM We currently have a member on the WDFW Wildlife Commission who is a paid employee of Conservation Northwest an openly pro-wolf organization that is opposed to many types of hunting. You are obviously talking about Jay Kehne. Who is a hunter and member of the Mule Deer Foundation and the Rocky Mt Elk Foundations. And he works for a conservation organization? So what? Since when did being a hunter mean you were against conservation? Most of the old time conservation guys were hunters who wanted to preserve what they loved. The fact that this has been twisted into "If you're for conservation, you're against us hunters" shows just how far logic has been thrown out the door and emotional garbage has replaced it. The problem on this board is, many of you can't comprehend how fellow hunters aren't swayed by your emotional arguments about conservation in general and wolves in particular. So you suspect every one of us who even remotely disagrees with you of being a spy for the other side. I tell you, the real anti's live in you guys' heads rent free.
We currently have a member on the WDFW Wildlife Commission who is a paid employee of Conservation Northwest an openly pro-wolf organization that is opposed to many types of hunting.
Examples of tacticsThere are a wide variety of tactics that have been used by eco-terrorists and groups associated with eco-terrorism. Examples include:Tree spiking is a common tactic that was first used by members of EarthFirst! in 1984. Tree spiking involves hammering a small spike into the trunk of a tree that may be logged with the intention of damaging the chainsaw or mill blades and may seriously injure the logger. Only one case of serious injury has been widely reported.
In 2008 the Federal Bureau of Investigation said eco-terrorists represented "one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today" citing the sheer volume of their crimes (over 2,000 since 1979); the huge economic impact (losses of more than $110 million since 1979); the wide range of victims (from international corporations to lumber companies to animal testing facilities to genetic research firms); and their increasingly violent rhetoric and tactics (one recent communiqué sent to a California product testing company said: "You might be able to protect your buildings, but can you protect the homes of every employee?").[37]
Spiking trees became a federal offense in the United States when it was added to the Drug Act in 1988.
Mitch Friedman's biography A life for the treesMitch Friedman is the executive director of Conservation Northwest (known first as Greater Ecosystem Alliance, then Northwest Ecosystem Alliance), which he founded in 1988 after being an activist leader in efforts to save ancient forests.
Among his best known stunts include:-Organizing the first spotted owl protection protests-Spending many hours in the canopy of ancient trees as one of the first tree-sitting protesters-Conceiving and organizing the Ancient Forest Rescue Expedition, nationwide educational tours featuring a giant log towed by a semi-truck-Executing the first non-logging high bid for a Forest Service timber sale (called Thunder Mountain)-Spearheading the conservation acquisition of the Loomis State Forest wildlands, as well as the highly successful coalition effort, The Cascades -Conservation Partnership
Originally published March 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM | Page modified March 12, 2012 at 10:35 AMA once radical Mitch Friedman now collaborates for a wilder NorthwestThe former radical environmentalist's recent run of wildlife-habitat successes were mostly created by some degree of quiet collaboration with traditional environmental foes such as federal land managers, ranchers, loggers and hound hunters.By Ron JuddA yellowed clip is testament to Friedman's older, loftier principles -- including multiple, headline-drawing "tree sits" to protest the logging of Northwest old-growth forests.......Old Earth First! tactics, such as this scaling of the U.S. Forest Service regional headquarters in Portland to erect a banner on the day of President Clinton's forest summit in 1995 (Friedman is on the left), "could have been less-alienating," Friedman admits. "Back then, I did the only thing I had the wherewithal to do."......As a former radical environmentalist, Friedman, at 48, admits to occasionally struggling with his own identity. Once a vagabond, he's now had the same job -- a paying one -- for two decades, and can't even remember details of the last time he got arrested: "It's been 23 years."......Oh: and a civil-disobedience record sufficient to gain instant jail-cred at any reunion of aging Earth First!ers.That last fact has both everything and nothing to do with Friedman's recent run of wildlife-habitat successes, most created by some degree of quiet collaboration with traditional environmental foes such as federal land managers, ranchers, loggers and hound hunters.He is probably violating numerous green-movement codes even broaching this subject, but Friedman at 48 has achieved what a twenty-something Friedman, the rabble-rousing Earth First! tree-sitter, could not have imagined: demonstrable success in the battle to save wild critters many Northwesterners hold dear.
EARTH FIRST! (EF) Earth First! Journal P.O. Box 964 Lake Worth, FL 33460 Email :webmaster@EarthFirst.orgURL :http://www.earthfirst.org/•Radical environmentalist group with a long history of violence and sabotage •Pioneered tactics like tree sitting and tree spiking to thwart logging and development Over time, EF's tactics and objectives became heavily influenced by Dave Foreman's 1985 book Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, which provided detailed instructions for such actions as downing power lines, disabling heavy machinery and equipment, destroying roads, making smoke bombs, and otherwise interfering with the work of land developers, ranchers, loggers, and farmers—particularly those who grew genetically modified crops. Other EF tactics included assault, arson, and “tree-spiking”—i.e., driving thick metal rods as deeply as possible into a tree intended for logging, in order to disable any saw that comes in contact with it. In 1987, tree-spiking claimed its first known casualty: A California mill worker named George Anderson had his jaw shattered when a shard from a spiked tree, splintered by his band saw, ricocheted into his face. In response to the incident, Dave Foreman said: “It’s unfortunate this worker was injured and I wish him the best. But the real destruction and injury is being perpetrated by Louisiana-Pacific and the Forest Service in liquidating old-growth forests.” In 1988, EF member Mitch Friedman stated that “tree-spiking is not terrorism; it is a justifiably extreme and noble deed.” The real terrorism, Friedman said, was being committed by the logging industry. Reasoning from that premise, EF routinely advocated violence against members of the logging industry. As an article in the September 1989 edition of the Earth First! Journal stated: “The blood of timber executives is my natural drink, and the wail of dying forest supervisors is music to my ears.”Another strategy that EF pioneered in order to impede logging was “tree-sitting,” whereby volunteers would camp out on the branches of trees slated for cutting—sometimes for several days—while fellow Earth Firsters on the ground brought supplies and carried away garbage. EF activist Julia "Butterfly" Hill holds the record for the longest tree-sit to date; between 1997 and 1999, she spent 738 days in the crown of a 180-foot-tall California Redwood in order to save it from the saws of the Pacific Lumber company. EF justifies its illegal activities, particularly those that involve property destruction, by explaining that violence against inanimate objects (such as logging company equipment) is not nearly as egregious as violence against living beings. Says EF: “Monkeywrenching is a step beyond civil disobedience. It is nonviolent, aimed only at inanimate objects, and at the pocketbooks of the industrial despoilers. It is the final step in the defense of the wild, the deliberate action taken by the Earth defender when all other measures have failed, the process whereby the wilderness defender becomes the wilderness acting in self-defense.” Hundreds of Earth Firsters have been incarcerated for their crimes. In a 1990 memorandum, Earth First activist Judi Bari, reacting to a spate of bad publicity which EF had garnered for its acts of sabotage, stated that “tree-spiking must be renounced … [because] the alienation [it causes], not to mention the danger, be it real or imagined, [is] harming our efforts to save this planet.” Soon thereafter, EF announced that it would thenceforth eschew potentially dangerous practices. Nonetheless, EF continued to sell Ecodefense and to embrace the militant anthem, “Spike a Tree for Jesus.”The debate which Bari touched off within the radical environmental community prompted a fissure within EF—causing some members to break away and form an even more militant splinter group, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The Earth First! Journal regularly publishes articles by ELF criminals, and shares an ideological kinship with the Animal Liberation Front as well. In 1991 Dave Foreman pled guilty to conspiring to blow up electrical lines leading to an Arizona nuclear power plant. That same year, Foreman published his book Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, wherein he happily reported that "ecotage in the National Forests alone in the United States is costing industry and government $20-25 million annually."
One of my favorite shirts I bought at Clarks in Colville, Earth first, we'll log the rest of the planets later, showed the space shuttle with a choker. Off topic sorry.
Jay seems like a nice guy I have spoken with him at length, however, he works for a preservationist environmental organization that openly works to halt many forms of hunting, ranching, and much human use of our wild lands. Jay's boss Mitch Friedman at Conservation Northwest was an active member of "Earth First" an extreme environmentalist group that was involved in numerous types of environmental terrorism. I don't know what types of acts Friedman was involved with but he openly admits to tree sitting and to being very active in Earth first. While Jay is employed and being given direction by a known environmentalist group like Conservation Northwest he should not be allowed to sit on the commission, it is a clear conflict of interest.
What we are doingConservation Northwest is the premiere group working on recovery of Washington's wolves. We have:Gained $1 million for wolf-livestock conflict prevention in Washington StateSale of special license plates to fund conflict prevention and tools starts in October 2013Current funding of three range riders in Washington, following the successful first range rider in 2012In 2013, continue to serve on a working group advising WDFW on implementing the state’s wolf planHelped shape the 2011 wolf plan, serving on a governor-appointed Wolf Working Group and organizing citizens to speak up for science-based recovery Defeated state legislation harmful to wolvesTogether we can recover wolves in the Northwest, protect and connect habitat, and secure a future for this important wild predator. We are:Actively monitoring wolf packs around the stateHosting educational forums for ranchers and landowners, and presentations on learning to live with wolvesHelping stop poaching, by posting reward flyers and contributing to a reward fund to deter poachersMore on wolvesCanis lupus, the gray wolf, is the largest of the canines, 2 to 3 times the size of a coyote.Wolves once lived around the state, including the Olympic Peninsula, where their loss has led to big changes in the courses of rivers, vegetation, and other wildlife.Wolves have excellent hearing and a keen sense of smell. They hunt and socialize in family groups known as packs.Washington has a known population of about 50-100 wolves, distributed now in 10 confirmed packs around the state.Some of the wolves documented in the Cascades have had their DNA traced to wolves in coastal British Columbia. They have also been documented eating salmon!Sprawl and development spells loss of habitat for wolves and their prey; but overall, the greatest threat to wolves is people's fear and misunderstanding about them.More than 75% of Washington residents queried in a 2008 wildlife poll supported recovery of Washington's wolvesAs a top carnivore, the gray wolves, along with other predators such as the bears and cougars, control prey populations so that a landscape may support a healthy ecosystem.Wolves play a vital role in maintaining the health of big game by culling sick animals and promoting stable ungulate populations. Biologists tell us that herds of big game - from elk to deer - are healthier with wolves in the habitat than without.Wolves, which returned on their own to Washington, are also coming back to Oregon and, so far, a single wolf to California.Document Actions
JEEEEEEESUS Guys... Looks like WE have the 2 Jays (like Kehne is one of us ) and the rest are all wet! We Need that vacant position on OUR side! When did Gary D of KF retire?-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Fish and Wildlife CommissionCommission Members Chair: Miranda Wecker, Naselle (Western Washington position, Pacific County) Occupation: Director of the Marine Program, UW Olympic Natural Resources Center Current Term: 07/08/2013 - 12/31/18Vice Chair: Bradley Smith, Ph.D., Vice Chair, Bellingham (Western Washington position, Whatcom County) Occupation: Dean Emeritus, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University Current Term: 06/18/2009 - 12/31/2014Commission Members: Larry Carpenter, Mount Vernon (Western Washington position, Skagit County) Occupation: Business owner, Master Marine Services, Inc.Term: 01/01/2011 - 12/31/2016Jay Holzmiller, Anatone (Eastern Washington position, Asotin County) Occupation: Public Works Current Term: 06/10/2013 - 12/31/2018Jay Kehne, Omak (At-Large position, Okanogan County) Occupation: Conservationist Term: 04/16/2013 - 12/31/2018Robert "Bob" Kehoe, Seattle (At-Large position, King County) Occupation: Executive Director, Purse Seine Vessel Owners' Assoc. Term: 07/08/2013 - 12/31/2014 Conrad Mahnken, Ph.D., Bainbridge Island (At-Large position, Kitsap County) Occupation: Retired, fisheries biologist Current Term: 01/01/2011 - 12/31/2016 Rolland Schmitten, Lake Wenatchee (Eastern Washington position, Chelan County) Occupation: Marine Resources Consultant Current Term: 06/18/2009 - 12/31/2014Vacant (Eastern Washington position)
