Naburn Woods Chopped

The chainsaws finally came for Naburn Woods in York on 19th October. Thanks to a tip off York LEAF knew about it, and a small group of activists set out to try and stop it. After failing to get up trees during the night, they invaded the site in the morning. Dead trees were everywhere - most of them had come down between 8am, when work started, and 9 am, when the protesters turned up. Immediately they ran towards the sound of a chainsaw cutting through a lime tree. However, the tree was just about to fall and it landed inches away from fleeing protestors. Nevertheless they spent the rest of the day invading the site and causing disruption. By evening all there was left to do was to survey the destruction -over 200 big trees down and a site so trashed that it was impossible to make out where the camp had been a year ago. With nothing left to battle over, security and protestors went off to pick mushrooms together at the old cricket field at the back of the site, and reminisce over past encounters. In some ways the last hope of saving the site has now been crushed, but the campaign continues with an action on November 7th. Contact 01904 410185