Police removed “Pony,” a tree-sitter with the Fairy Creek blockades, from her post 100 feet above the ground earlier this week. Photo by Will O'Connel “Pony,” a tree-sitter, dangled on a seven-by-four platform suspended in the canopy of two ancient Douglas fir trees, 100 feet from the ground, as 14 RCMP officers surrounded her below. A helicopter flew overhead. Loggers began to fell trees nearby, less than two trees away from tree-sitters. It was the second day of the RCMP’s attempt to dismantle Pony’s tree platform, located in a remote area where forest protectors with the Fairy Creek movement have been protesting the logging of some of Vancouver Island’s last remaining old-growth forest. The police tactics of removal were escalating. “They did threaten tear gas and rubber bullets. They asked the officer on my tree sit to put on his tear gas goggles. The whole time during the arrest process I had a large gun pointed at me,” Pony told me over the phone after she was removed from her tree-sit.