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"A Logging Protest In The Treetops Ends In Terror, Activists Say" [1]

"Protesters lived in a tree for 40 days on the Olympic Peninsula to protest logging of older forests." 

"PORT ANGELES, Wash. — On the 40th night of the protest, a black Jeep drove up a logging road and stopped near the base of a towering grand fir.

For more than a month, environmental activists had been living on a platform some 80-feet up the trunk of that tree in an attempt to stop logging in the emerald foothills of the Olympic Peninsula. They had rigged a dunk-tank platform to cables that connected to a jumble of logs and brush strung across a dirt road on state land.

If anyone tried to break through the blockade, the platform could fall.

Now someone arrived who was ready to try."

Joshua Partlow reports for the Washington Post June 28, 2025. [2]

Activism [3]
Biodiversity [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
Forests [6]
Laws & Regulations [7]
Natural Resources [8]
People & Population [9]
Wildlife [10]
Northwest (OR WA) [11]
Public [12]
Source: Washington Post [2], 06/30/2025
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/logging-protest-treetops-ends-terror-activists-say [2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/28/protest-timber-olympic-forest-treesit/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/activism [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/biodiversity-1 [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/forests [7] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [8] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/land [9] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/people-population [10] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/wildlife [11] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northwest [12] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81