After days of unanswered phone calls to Jim Young of the local district Oregon Department of Forestry office, Barbara Shamet has taken her plea to court. This morning Shamet dropped of a petition for an injunction to stop the logging at the Millicoma Between Sale citing a 2009 pre-op report that lists this location as a ‘high landslide hazard’ that threatens her home. The report cites that debris will enter the Millicoma River and Shamet’s property is between the river and the clear cut.

Francis Eatherington of Cascadia Wildlands called the state office of ODF as her emails to the district office have also gone unanswered. Within an hour of her call to the state office, Jim Young did finally get in contact and admits he never read her three emails. According to Eatherington, Young was unaware of a 2010 ODF report related to fish bearing streams and more details will be published on this curious fact as soon as possible.

Shamet has also retained an attorney to represent her for civil rights violations when OSP and ODF threatened to arrest her and denied her access to her own property last Monday.

Details of the Millicoma Between and the Elkhorn Ranch Timber Sale tree-sit indicate a reluctance on the part of ODF to return phone calls or engage in a dialog with concerned parties. Cascadia Forest Defenders claim they also tried to contact the regional ODF office and were also ignored which partly motivated their protest in the forest.

The court should decide on the injunction this afternoon as court was already in session when the petition was submitted.

This post will be updated as more information comes in.