Wednesday, September 10, 2003

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Wednesday, September 10, 2003
By Ellen Komp, E/The Environmental Magazine

"If you want to see what environmental terrorism looks like, just drive up Greenwood Heights road," said Sparrow, a diminutive elderly woman who has been supporting tree-sitters in her neighborhood, called Freshwater, nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101. "You will see beautiful, 1,600-year-old trees that have been cut down to feed one man's greed."

On the other side of the fray, a public relations campaign from Maxxam/Pacific Lumber was calling Michigan Earth First! activist Rodney Coronado a "convicted ecoterrorist" because he served a federal prison term for arson-related animal rights activities. While visiting California, Coronado allegedly confronted a climber hired by Maxxam/PL to remove tree sitters and warned that he was...(Read on in: The old-growth timber battle heats up

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