Giant puppets brought by demonstrators keep watch over the portable toilets.
County sheriff's deputies, Highway Patrol officers and Fortuna police were ready, but the only arrests occurred at the pre-determined trespassing site. A mass of colorful humans bumped and squeezed together onto the shoulders of Highway 36 for five hours. Flags and banners danced above their heads and turkey buzzards soared across the blue sky. The loudest applause of the day went not to visiting celebrities Bonnie Raitt and Don Henley but to Cecilia Lanman, the local activist who seems to have risen to the rank of general in the Headwaters Army. Please step back across the line.