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Oak Grove Extraction #2

by Cricket
Photos I took on June 17 of the Oak Grove defense
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As the first day of extraction wore on the extractors had done little more than cut down some of the far away tree sits that we were not defending. Their actions became more aggressive as they realized that we could not be easily tamed. As they became more aggressive we had to take more risks to save our food and water and our safety lines. We could free climb between many trees but with ropes it was relatively safe. Their goal was to cut all of these ropes and make it much more dangerous for us to be in the trees. Also a lack of food and water is never safe.

I was in the sky chair for these photos. I couldn't move around but had a good view. many time our lives were put in danger by lines being cut with people on them, accidentally and purposefully rammed with equipment, and by falling objects that the extractors threw from the trees. I missed getting photos of most of it in a very intense situation.

One extractor we called "Glasses" (not an an insult but just as a description). He seemed to take a sick pleasure in threatening to cut lines with people on them.

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An extractor comes at the tree sit in a cherry picker.
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An axtracter approaches Atlantica once again.
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Dumpster muffin faces an extractor.
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The extractor tries to cut down the platform in Atlantica while Mando (behind branches) defends it.
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Dumpster Muffin waits for the next attack in Redwood.
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Millipede defends the line from an extractor.
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Bird holds a line while Mando keeps Atlantica safe.
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Bird holds the line between Redwood and Lower Diodar.
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Millipede again holds the line against an extractor.
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Dumpster Muffin organizes supplies in Lower Diodar
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Bird holds down redwood.
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Olive and Sonic wait for the next attack on Yemah.
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Olive on the line while UC Police Chief Harrison and other "important" people look on from the parking lot.
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This line connects the sky chair to Dharma Tree. I was in the sky chair. Shortly after this photo was taken an extractor lowered and cut this rope. I went crashing through branches and hung upside down. I was luckily held by other lines but one was half way cut through and it was dangerous for sure.
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View of the halfway cut line to Atlantica, the God pod at the top of redwood and the hammock where i would also sit when the extractors came. It was the highest place one could be on a line. The extractors lowered the rope a bit and then cut it with me on it. I was held by two other ropes but went swinging and plummeting down in a way that is not good when you are eighty feet above the ground.
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Mando in Atlantica.
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Shem in Redwood. He held down the hammock until the end when I took it.
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UCPD Chief Harrison and others watch the action in the grove.
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Extractors now come at us with three in a cherry picker.
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