No, but I've been there and done that and in the process, talked to many of
the various northwestern treehugger species, from the ex-Earth First! types,
politicians and the garden-variety "Drivin' daddy's Beamer to the protest on
the way to he Phish concert" types too. Lotta useless, clueless college-age
parasites but also some -really- interesting minds. I wouldn't say I came
out of the experience with a profound new respect for hippies. :

I can't speak for the rest of the country, but out here the activist leaders
who organize everything are smart enough to know the importance of general
aviation. The shrieking retro-hippie ninnies don't, necessarily, but they
don't actually accomplish anything anyhow for the most part.

The rednecks who fired shotguns over our heads and dumped roofing nails all
over the road when the OSU Forestry Department and Time Magazine were coming
up to a timber arson auction site sure thought I was a treehugger. I
pulled at least two dozen nails from each of my tires. When we reported it
to the state police, he said "It must have been those ecoterrorists but
there's nothing I can do. The USFS has authority and told us we can't go up
there." -c

"Newps" wrote in message
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You're not a treehugger. Not even close.

I'm a "treehugger." I once flew a C-152 with a photographer over an
illegal clearcut of an old-growth forest along the Oregon coast that was
subsidized by unknowing taxpayers but shut down as soon as the government
found out (of course, 75% had already been cut thanks to friends in Bill
F'ckhead Clinton's Forest Service)