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Day 27, Diary from a treesitter in the Bulga State Forest
A the edge of dawn I sit ensconced in my coccoon of sheets, tucked into my nest in the canopy. The morning trickles down over the far side of the ridge and into the gully. To the eye, everything is stillness, but the air is alive with birdsong, invisible waves that ripple down through the valley.
The minutes drip drop with the viscosity of honey, so I take my time with each task – slicing my apple into segments, savouring the sensation as the knife glides through the flesh, the sweetness and crunch between my teeth.
Day 26, Diary from a treesitter in the Bulga State Forest
Hi everybody, from high up on a tree sit platform in “Rock Steady”. Something about rope assisted climbing is the transition from the type of security/safety you feel hanging above the abyss on just your ropes and harness to putting all your weight on branches
Day 25, Diary from a treesitter in the Bulga State Forest
Bulga treesit day 25 No rain o/night,
temp fluctuating warm/cool. heard black cockatoos in the rain yesterday morning, probably yellow tails, the red tail Glossies have been even rarer to spot since the big fires hammered their Casurina feed trees.
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Join us at Midcoast Council – Yalawanyi Ganya, 2 Biripi Way, Taree on Wednesday 8th February
Echo news Report
The latest in a series of actions to save trees and habitat, native forest logging has been halted this morning by protests in Doubleduke state forest, between Grafton and Casino.
A protester at Doubleduke has been suspended in a tree-sit 25 m above three industrial logging machines. Protests have also stopped logging in the Manning and in the mid North coast.
Tree-sitter Andrew George, an engineer from Lismore says the appropriate response to people trying to chop down our forests is to stop them.
ABC News Report
Two women locked themselves onto the gates of a major sawmill on the state’s lower Mid North Coast
Protesters are calling for a statewide end to native forestry