Earth First! Treesitting Blockades Begin. Spring/Summer 1985 From action diaries, newsclippings. agencies and audio recordings.

Ron Huber trip diary driving from Maryland to Oregon to protect old growth forests, April 1985

May 20, 1985 Mike Jakubal ascends a douglas fir in 1st Earth First! treesit. May 20, 1985 published in EF! Journal ***Online audio recording of excerpts of this action. (mp3) (Includes Mike Jakubal, Mike Roselle, Marcy Willow, "Sarge" , Ken Day and Ron Huber.)

Mike Roselle, Mike Jakubal & Ron Huber go to 1985 Washington state EF! rendezvous to promote tree climbing as CD action. June 14, 1985

Huber's diary of the Millenium Grove action from affinity group arrival onsite June 23, 1985 at Squaw/Three Units 6 and 9 timbersale sites to the July 20 Freddies' failed cherrypicker attack on Huber in his tree

Sneak attack by loggers, deputies & forest service agents takes out Jakubal's and Valerie Wade's unoccupied platforms, July 1985. Ron Huber in remaining occupied douglas fir hurls insults to loggers, grapples to neighboring trees.

USFS agent Christenson describes siege, arrest of treesitter Ron Huber 1985

4th of July bust. 8 minute mp3 Linn County Deputy Sheriff Chris Ives arresting treesitter Ron Huber's ground crew, and Ron's reactions from above.

Linn County Deputy Sheriff Dave Freeman describes being in a crane box and encountering & negotiating with Huber on his tree platform. 1985

Oregon District Attorney lists state charges against Ron Huber, 1985

Ron Huber's jail diary description of his treesitting action July 1985

Ron Huber saves his tree Yggdrasil's life after she's cut down.

Ron Huber's article for Earth First Journal, "Battle for Millenium Grove" August.