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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:57:25 -0700, "Curt" <cje@hevanet.com> wrote:

>No one was ever hurt by cutting a spiked tree,

You're a monumental dolt curt!

http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg764.cfm
Spiking trees with metal or ceramic spikes, the latter of which are
not detected by metal detectors, is common in the western US.
Incidents have also occurred in Canada and Australia. In May 1987, a
young California sawmill operator was  severely injured when a spike
shattered a band saw. A local Earth First! official blamed the sawmill
for jeopardizing its workers lives. Earth First! leader Foreman said
workers fearing injury could quit and that to him, the old growth
forest in North Idaho is a hell of a lot more important than Joe Six
pack. Loggers in California and Oregon since have been injured

In another incident involving personal injury, demonstrators, some
armed with knives and clubs, attacked Forest Service personnel
involved in herbicide spraying in the Siskiyou National Forest.

http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/ag-forst/1997-October/006061.html
7/16/90. Gallatin County, Montana. Earth Firster Lyn Lee Georges
   Dessaux arrested on two counts of misdemeanor assault, one for
   multiple stabbings of Dan R. Jacobs of Kalispell with a ski pole,
the
   other for multiple stabbings of Hal Slemmer of Billings with a ski
   pole, in a Fund for Animals protest on March 17 to disrupt the
buffalo
   hunt near West Yellowstone. Dessaux became so violent that the
animal
   rights video camera operator documenting the scene stopped taping
and
   screamed at Dessaux to stop. Dessaux was found guilty on both
counts
   February 8, 1991 in a jury trial in Justice Court in Bozeman (Case
   Number CR90-0963). Justice of the Peace Scott Wyckman sentenced
   Dessaux to 6 months in Gallatin County Jail, suspended to 45 days.
   Dessaux was released after 28 days on condition he perform
community
   service with the Humane Society in lieu of paying court debts, but
the
   shelter rejected his help. Sentence in the case of The State of
   Montana v. Lyn Georges Dessaux, Case Number CR90-0963, February 8,
   1991. Shelter Rejects Bison Activist - Humane Society Wont Take His
   Help, Bozeman Daily Chronicle, Saturday, March 9, 1991, by The
   Associated Press, p. 1A.