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Tim Ingalsbee recounts the North Roaring Devil Timber Sale, which led to an injunction against the U.S. Forest Service and became once of the most iconic environmental conflicts of the 20th Century.

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00:00For many environmentalists, the timber wars started in 1989 in the Willamette National
00:08Forest, prompted by the U.S. Forest Service controversial timber sale known as the North
00:13Roaring Devil.
00:17I got a call from a friend that they are logging this stand of old growth trees.
00:25And so I just, you know, grabbed my tent and sleeping bag and headed up there.
00:29It was actually Easter Sunday weekend.
00:32What I found out is there was a court case coming to put an injunction on that timber
00:38sale.
00:39It would be two days before the injunction papers were filed.
00:43Until then, the law was on the side of the Forest Service.
00:46Even if we won the lawsuit in court, the judge couldn't order us to put the trees back up,
00:52so it would have mooted the lawsuit.
00:54We called that chainsaw justice.
00:58The protestors had to stop.
01:00It was just a small group of us got up there and tried to, you know, erect barricades,
01:06you know, rocks and logs and things that just stopped the Forest Service going in.
01:12One of the barricades, we piled rocks and buried someone up to their neck.
01:18And the Forest Service would bring in giant front-end loaders, smash and menace what took
01:23us hours.
01:24But each day, you know, more and more people came.
01:27It started with a dozen of us, then it was 50, then it was, it seemed like hundreds.
01:33Because people were so outraged.
01:36We're citizens trying to prevent law-breaking by our government.
01:43We didn't win that battle.
01:45But that was the first time that environmentalists weren't called terrorists.

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