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BOSTON (Reuters) - A pair of environmental activists climbed down on Tuesday from the trees in which they have been perched for several weeks after they failed in their bid to prevent logging on a central Massachusetts mountain. The activists, nicknamed Badger and Dandi, said it was with heavy hearts that they abandoned their "tree sit" protest after loggers began clearing some 12 acres of forest on Monday to make room for two new ski trails. "We remain free to fight another day," the activists said in a statement after they descended from the branches of two northern red oaks....

Tree-sitters leave lofty perch Protesters arrested, released; reason for departure unknown Bill Choy Record Searchlight June 08, 2003 — 2:12 a.m. SAWYERS BAR — Three tree-sitters in Klamath National Forest voluntarily left their perches Saturday morning and were arrested. Amelia Vasquez, Kristi Sanchez and Ian Snyder had each been sitting in trees 80 feet off the ground since May 25, U.S. Forest Service officials said. The site is near the Salmon River, about one mile outside Sawyers Bar in western Siskiyou County. The three came down about 11 a.m. Saturday, said Louis Haynes, a public affairs officer for the...

Tree-sitters invade Siskiyou attempting to stop timber sale Map shows area in western Siskiyou County near the Salmon River where environmentalists are protesting a group of timber sales. SAWYERS BAR - Extreme environmentalists were spotted in trees today in a remote area of Siskiyou County, attempting to stop a group of timber sales. The tree-sitters took up residence in old growth trees near the Salmon River, targeting the Knob, Meteor and Glassups sales. Congressman Wally Herger, R-Calif., whose district includes the timber sale areas, criticized the environmentalists' actions. "Unfortunately and ironically, these misguided environmental extremists are threatening precisely that which...

<p>BERKELEY -- To some, she was an environmental Joan of Arc, patron saint of the Save the Redwoods movement and tree-sitting bane of the Northern California timber industry.</p> <p>To Berkeley writer Kate Coleman, she was a fascinating cross between nuclear whistle-blower Karen Silkwood and the late anarchist Emma Goldman.</p> <p>Environmental activist Judi Bari died of breast cancer six years ago in a Mendocino County cabin. She was 47.</p>

<p>A former Santa Cruz County tree-sitter who calls himself ``Rampage'' has been sentenced to three years in state prison for possessing the makings of a Molotov cocktail.</p> <p>Matthew Gordon Lamont, 21, of Long Beach, was arrested last year in La Habra after he drove past a Moose Lodge set to host a meeting of white supremacists celebrating Hitler's birthday.</p>

<p>LOS ANGELES; Hours after a judge issued an eviction order for tree-sitting protester John Quigley, authorities broke a device chaining him to a 400-year-old oak tree and peacefully escorted him to the ground.</p> <p>Quigley was removed from the tree shortly before 11 p.m. on Friday by Los Angeles County’s sheriff’s deputies who reached him in a fire department ladder that extended to his platform on the tree.</p>

LA Sheriff Deputies and LA County Fire Department are moving in with equipment to remove Tree Sitter John Quiqley. They have brought in ladder trucks and are positioning them extract the wacko from the perch he has occupied since November. Quigley has been trying to halt the removal of a 400 year old oak tree dubbed "Old Glory". The tree was slated to be removed as part of a construction project. The builder has offerred to move the oak, but activists say the oak will not survive.

<p>CORRALITOS, Calif.(AP) - A man with the environmental activist group Earth First! has died after a 50-foot fall from a redwood tree in which he'd lived for several weeks.</p> <p>Rescue personnel were called to the scene of a logging operation in the Ramsey Gulch area about 20-miles south of San Jose on Tuesday night after loggers heard moans coming from the area where a group of tree-sitters has been camped since August, the group said. It was unclear how long the injured man had been on the ground.</p>

<p>Julia Butterfly Hill, California's well-known tree sitter and environmental activist, has been jailed in Ecuador for protesting a proposed oil pipeline that would penetrate a virgin Andean "cloud forest" that teems with rare birds.</p> <p>Hill, 28, was arrested Tuesday with seven other demonstrators in Quito outside the offices of Occidental Petroleum, a U.S. oil company.</p>

Portland, Ore. - A woman who climbed 150 feet up a tree to protest a timber sale fell and died from her injuries before rescuers could reach the remote site in the Mount Hood National Forest.The timber sale she was protesting had been canceled three days before her death Friday, and the protesters expected to leave the area within a week.It tool rescue crews over two hours struggling up snow-clogged dirt roads to reach the tree-sitter's camp after fellow activists called rescuers, Clackamas County Sheriff's spokeswoman Angela Blanchard said.