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| | Featured Articles  The Bay Area Forest Activist The Season in Review It has been a very busy year. We salute the dedicated, brave and very persistent activists who have sat in trees, written briefs, argued in court, tested temperature and turbidity in streams, taken video, sat at tables with a donation can, brought hot meals to tree-sitters, hauled tree-sitter's recycling away, written press releases, called reporters, testified at hearings, sat through two days of Board of Forestry meetings, written letters to the editor, harangued elected representatives, given slide shows, printed newsletters, done data entry, locked themselves to trees and persevered. Together, we stand to make a difference. [ READ MORE ] The Humboldt-Houston Connection Made Real Activists bring their message to MAXXAM and its CEO Charles Hurwitz at the corporate headquarters in Houston "We're sick of watching the liquidation of our last remaining ancient redwoods in California. We think the best place to voice our outrage is right here in Houston, where the orders come from and the money goes to." That said, two intrepid tree-sitters traveled from California's north coast to Texas to protest Maxxam Corporation's destructive logging practices that are destroying their rural community's economy, rivers, and forest habitat in Humboldt county. On July 16, under cover of darkness, two activists climbed 110-foot tall pine trees in Houston's Memorial Park and built tree sits 80 feet high in the branches. They sat in the tree through torrential Texas Gulf Coast rains and even Hurricane Claudia, eliciting response from Maxxam and lots of attention from the media. [ READ MORE ] << Back to Newsletter | Newsroom Subscribe Get action alerts, updates, and other important news in your email inbox by signing up with your email address here: Learn more about events | See the BACHList FAQ | | 
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