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‘This isn’t just her story, it’s our story’ Three days after timber sale is canceled, forest activist takes fatal fall from tree BY BEN JACKLET The Tribune Some of Portland’s fiercest forest warriors gathered beneath a huge Douglas fir tree in Mount Tabor Park last Sunday to pay tribute to a fallen comrade. Beth O’Brien died at age 22 on Friday, April 12, after dropping 150 feet from a tree platform in the Mount Hood National Forest. At the candlelight vigil, O’Brien’s comrades remembered her as Horehound, a Dumpster-diving, freight train-hopping, tree-sitting anarchist who died a heroic death in defiance...