In the week since Pacific Lumber Co. began enforcing a Humboldt County court order mandating that activists come down out of 18 majestic redwoods, one tree has been emptied and felled. Trained ...
A massive Western red cedar is slated to be cut down in Northeast Seattle as part of a development project. But now activists have climbed into its branches, and say they’re seeking to preserve it. A ...
BERKELEY, Calif. – Former tree-sitters at the University of California, Berkeley, who were trying to save a grove of trees outside Memorial Stadium, will have to pay thousands of dollars in fines and ...
Pacific Northwest Forest Defense Protesters have moved into another Bureau of Land Management project area in southern Oregon after claiming their tree-sitting prevented construction of a logging road ...
BERKELEY, Calif. – In December 2006, protesters angry about campus expansion plans clambered into the branches of a threatened oak grove at the University of California, Berkeley. Since then, ...
A massive red cedar tree in Seattle’s Wedgwood neighborhood remains standing Thursday morning as a home-building contractor scrambles to find another tree-service company willing to cut it down. That ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Tree sitting has become a popular way to protest logging operations, despite its danger. A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! died this week after he fell more ...
Tree-sitters have taken shifts in turn to stand guard at a 180-year-old oak to stop it being felled by their local council. The group of local residents stay at the tree day and night to protect it ...