The loggers have big honking macho machinery--today I watched one crashing through the woods, breaking down trees, bulldozing roughshod over everything in its path and I thought I'll bet the driver of this machine gets a hard on being able to assault, mangle, pillage, rape and destroy precious and beautiful things. I bet he goes home and drinks beer and beats his wife. He's used to kicking things around.

They are coming closer and closer to my property--just across the branch now. During the destruction, it suddenly rained hard for a couple of minutes, like tears of sorrow over what is being lost.  Raindrops sparkled like diamonds on the big trees, a breeze rustled the leaves, a soft sound like distant surf.

Their time would soon be up, these trees 80 and 100 years old that had survived Katrina and still are struggling to recover. They are so beautiful and irreplaceable--they and the plants that grow under their dappled shade. Birds don't greet the dawn with song anymore--they have been silenced by the whine and rumble and roar of machines that left  them homeless.

Every tree that crashed to the ground made me wince. I haven't been able to get a lawyer or anyone else interested. So I park, watching the machines come closer and closer and bear witness to environmental murder.  Susil

Comments:

So sorry.

Sickening and heart wrenching. Which reminds me, Edward Abbey's "The Monkeywrench Gang" did all sorts of damage to machinery to slow "progress". (That's where Jim got his blog name, Hayduke.) But don't you do it. I'd guess it's against the law.

comment by solitaire on July 23, 2008 5:06 PM ()

Hi sol; the thing is if you sabotage machinery, it won't
make a difference in the long run because they will keep
coming back and back. Right now all I want is for them to
get through and go the hell away.

reply by susil on July 24, 2008 7:06 AM ()

comment by tealstar on July 23, 2008 4:50 AM ()

Hi teal; I wish I was able to Molotov cocktail the machinery.
(If I had enough hutzpah.)
but I move too slow and everyone passing by can see what's
going on. I wish I had thought of making signs saying something
like "Wildlife habitat being destroyed" etc. and picketing
out by the side of the road.
by the side of the road

reply by susil on July 23, 2008 8:27 AM ()

I hope you are taking photos for your articles. Just curious, but have you contacted the Mississippi Chapter of the Sierra Club?

comment by marta on July 23, 2008 3:11 AM ()

I'm going to keep hunting through my sources for some support for you. I'm active in a number of groups, and we'll see if there are some allies to help keep this from happening or at least become more aware of what's happening in your area.

reply by marta on July 23, 2008 9:46 AM ()

Hi marta--unfortunately the Siera Club is not a
presence in South Mississippi. Never hear of them,
they are not activists. They disbanded the nearest
chapter years ago. I wish there were folks here like
in Oregon who made a stand against logging and made
a difference..Mississippi is terribly apathetic.
I'm taking photos with a disposable zoom lens camera,
this computer and greasy say prints from photos are
too large to put up, so don't know if I'll ever be
able to show them.Tx for your comments.

reply by susil on July 23, 2008 8:32 AM ()