By all reports, if this group shows up for action, the event will have a distinctly more mainstream look to it than many forest civil disobedience actions of the 1980s. Bauman emphasizes it is not a desired outcome. Civil disobedience is a last resort. We absolutely do not want to do it. Nobody wants to do it.
Nobody is gung ho.
But people will do what they feel they must. If I have to be at one place I'm going to be at our Audubon place. And in his view, it was working until recently. Significant portions of the ancient forests of the Northwest appeared headed toward protection. Now they may rip apart the work of 30 years in three months.