Joan Norman, then 72, was arrested protesting the logging of old-growth reserve but died before her trial.
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A tree “sit” attached to other trees by lines—if loggers cut any of the connected trucks, the pod falls.
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Cut timber in a designated roadless area.
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Virgin trees in an old-growth reserve.
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A clear-cut forest.
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An activist suspended from a log to block access to a bridge.
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A sawed tree in an old-growth reserve.
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A protestor roosts on a road blockade. Like civil rights activists of the 1950s and 1960s, forest defenders use nonviolent disobedience as their modus operandi.
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A law enforcement officer and surrounding protesters on the first day of old-growth logging at the Fiddler Fire Salvage Timber Sale in the Siskiyou National Forest.
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Timber faller, Jeff Hammers, sawing a tree in a designated roadless area. Now in his fifties, Hammers looks at logging not as a job but a way of life.
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