Yes, there are. This should scare you. Serious? VERY. These people are INSANE. They are not just mistaken, they are disconnected from reality.
These folks have killed before, and they will kill again.
I mean kill, as in, MURDER. People.
Where? When did they murder anybody other than themselves? One idiot ran under a tree that was felled in N. Collyfonia and was killed. I'd call it suicide.
The main ones I've been around, the leaders, were trust fund kids. They grew up in fairly wealthy homes and so were able to take on their cause. After going through the active protest stage-tree sitting, chaining themselves to gates, etc. they needed to go more mainstream, and a lot have gone back to school and now have advanced degrees in Forestry. They've never worked in the woods and have no experience, but they have that piece of paper saying they are experts, and they are taken seriously as experts.
I have to take them on field trips. They show up late. I tell them we need to go down into the brush so they can see what happens in the real world, they tell me they don't have time and already know because they read about it in school. I have to be nice to them. For you guys, the local group has what one mill honcho said was "so cute, you don't want to argue with her" woman in charge. They don't argue with her.
Then I have to go through paperwork, with their recommendations of how they want a unit logged. I usually have to close the door to my office because I spew some bad language. I go to work with a red pen. :bang: