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From: Michael Mittage <sewer@siu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Tree Sitter in the Shawnee National Forest Survives 3 days

For Immediate Release
Sept. 28, 1995
Contact: Rene Cook 618-684-4332

To the Local and National Press,

The "Bat Boy" survives 3 days in Tree Slated for Logging in the Shawnee
National Forest

        As dawn breaks Sept. 28, 1995 a lone citizen calling himself the
"Bat Boy" will have spent 3 days aloft in the canopy of  a white oak tree
slated for logging in the Shawnee National Forest in Southern Illinois.
       "I want to get a message across the Forest Service.  Citizens don't
appreciate welfare logging on our public lands,"  he said.
        Forest Service Officials have threatened to remove him with the aid
of a fire truck, cherry picker, and even cut the tree out from under him.
Today members of the Carbondale Veneer Logging Co. felled trees all 
around him.
        This however does not deter him, "I plan to stay aloft until this
injustice is stopped," he said.
        Down on the ground the resistance has been persistent.  After
logging began Sept. 21, nine people have been arrested attempting to stop
the sale from proceeding.
        Yesterday, Bill Cronin of Rural Pomona refiled an appeal of the sale
in the southern district Federal Court in Benton, IL.  He claims that the
Forest Service has not done an adequate job in monitoring the number of bats
in the Cripps Bend Area.
        "No one tested or checked if the Indiana bats were using the trees
for maternity roosts," Cronin said.
        "They are a federally endangered species.  Let's do some legitimate
for maternity roosts," Cronin said.
        "They are a federally endangered species.  Let's do some legitimate
surveys-some mist netting."
        Forest Service officials said they used sonar to detect if bats were
in the region and said mist netting was not necessary.  Using sonar meets
the requirements for the terrain of the Cripps Bend area, the officials said.
        Cronin said the Forest Service had no desire to detect the presence
of Indiana bats in the Cripps Bend area.
        "They didn't want to find any bats in here (Cripps Bend).  God
forbid, they couldn't cut the trees then," he said.
        After the Judge ruled in favor of the Forest Service, Carbondale
Veneer moved in to the area Sept. 21 to resume the cutting.  Loggers have
been working frantically, cutting as many trees as possible before todays
appeal can be ruled upon.
        In another lawsuit yeterday against the SNF Amended Land and
Resource Management Plan, the Judge ordered that the FS provide more
information to substantiate their Oil and Gas leasing, All Terrain Vehicle,
and Migratory Bird conservation provisions.
        Citizens can call 1-800-MY-WOODS (SNF Headquarters) or 618-549-5495
(Carbondale Veneer, Stan Curtis Owner) to express their opinion and inquire
about this complete disregard for the letter and spirit of the law.


From: Michael Mittage <sewer@siu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list ACTIV-L <ACTIV-L@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
Subject: Tree Sitter in the Shawnee National Forest Survives 3 days

Contact: Rene Cook 618-684-4332

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