Katuah Earth First! has been doing direct action for over fifteen years now. Most press releases and images of those actions are buried in filing cabinets and old Earth First! Journals now, but here is some of what we still have available.

Earth First! Blockades Chip Mill

In 1999, Earth First! blockaded the Willamette (now Weyerhauser) chip mill down in Rutherford County, just east of Asheville. This action included a banner on a crane and 10 people got arrested, and the blockade lasted for six hours.

Blockade of 1998 Timber Sale in Shinbone

Blockade we did in 1998 at a timber sale on the Cherokee National Forest called Shinbone. The guy in the tripod got arrested.

Brownie Newman

Now Asheville City Councilor Brownie Newman, holding the bullhorn for Earth First! some time in the 90s when he was an Earth First!er.