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Don Staples wrote:
> 
> I am rather curious as to how the video was produced.  Headwaters is
> essentially a private tract, under lock and key.  To have created a
> video of the tract would have violated at least one law, if not
> several.
> 
> So, how it is?

Good question! 

Part of the material is from fly-overs, but most of footage is about the
1996 protests against the clearcutting. Some of these actions were
blocking maneuvers, such as people locking themselves to the gates. The
largest action involved people deliberately stepping over a police line,
one at a time in an orderly manner, and being cited for tresspass. The
more than one thousand protesters arrested at this action included men,
women, and children from all over -- even the rock star Bonnie Raitt and
a local county supervisor! (Ironically, it has since been determined
that the formal police line was on public land, not private, and all of
the citations have been thrown out of court because no tressasses
actually occurred.) The videographers, as members of the press, were
allowed to film all these events, of course. 

Excerpts from commerical television broadcasts, a biologist's talk about
how clearcutting endangers coho salmon runs in the region, interviews
with environmental activists, and an exceprt of a dramatic rally speech
by the late Judi Bari round out the feature. 

Of great interest to an "outsider" viewer like me is the final footage
in the film showing two illegal tree cuts -- video-dated material filmed
by a logger himself to use against the boss who had ordered him to
engage in these illegal activities. Today's loggers are increasingly
concerned with environmental issues because they know that their jobs
depend upon the continuance of healthy woodland ecosystems. It is my
belief that the polarization that used to divide forest workers from
environmental activists is rapidly being bridged as our last great
forests are being clearcut by corporate raiders. Loggers need jobs and
job security -- and MAXXAM boss Charles Hurwitz, who is already in legal
hot water for raiding the Pacific Lumber Company pension fund, is no
friend to the loggers.  

catherine yronwode