https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-8OCecOmEQ
Clip of the Winner of the International Forest Film Festival They are living giants, one of Earth's largest and oldest trees. Some tower more than 350 feet high, taller than the Statue of Liberty; some may have been seedlings when Jesus was born. Yet, these natural legends still shroud centuries-old secrets. In a major National Geographic cross-platform event, which includes the October, 2009 cover story for the magazine, we reveal the little-explored environment of the redwoods using high-tech aerial laser surveys and breathtaking imagery.
United Nations Forum on Forests website: http://www.un.org/esa/forests/
The best-selling book The Wild Trees made Steve Sillett a legend among tall-tree climbers. Now, as National Geographic magazine features his work in a cover story and documentary, Humboldt State’s skywalking professor launches a groundbreaking study into the effects of climate change on redwoods.
http://magazine.humboldt.edu/fall09/tallest-trees-unveiled/
Steve Sillette's Teacher Page at School...
http://www2.humboldt.edu/redwoods/
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Scenes before the trees were all cut down... very dark pictures in the forest... Protesters watch the eviction of the treesitters...
Clip of the Winner of the International Forest Film Festival They are living giants, one of Earth's largest and oldest trees. Some tower more than 350 feet high, taller than the Statue of Liberty; some may have been seedlings when Jesus was born. Yet, these natural legends still shroud centuries-old secrets. In a major National Geographic cross-platform event, which includes the October, 2009 cover story for the magazine, we reveal the little-explored environment of the redwoods using high-tech aerial laser surveys and breathtaking imagery.
United Nations Forum on Forests website: http://www.un.org/esa/forests/
The best-selling book The Wild Trees made Steve Sillett a legend among tall-tree climbers. Now, as National Geographic magazine features his work in a cover story and documentary, Humboldt State’s skywalking professor launches a groundbreaking study into the effects of climate change on redwoods.
http://magazine.humboldt.edu/fall09/tallest-trees-unveiled/
Steve Sillette's Teacher Page at School...
http://www2.humboldt.edu/redwoods/
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| Sequoia Park in Eureka, CA - Redwood Trees |
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Welcome to Freshwater, California USA. Location of a year long tree-sit Protesting Logging of the Redwood Forest. The people living in the trees were evicted by Eric Schatz... A Sub contractor working for MAXXAM Corporation.
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/welcome-to-freshwater-california-usa.html
This is a picture of the clearcut forest two years later when pampas grass has grown
where redwood trees used to be.
Interesting Movie: Who Bombed Judi Bari?
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi742497305?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi742497305?ref_=tt_pv_vi_aiv_1
Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely arrested for car-bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 while on an Earth First! musical organizing tour for Redwood Summer. They sued the FBI for violations of the First Amendment, claiming the FBI knew they were innocent but arrested them to try to silence them. Having survived the bomb but now stricken by cancer, Judi Bari, a leader of the movement to save California's old growth redwoods, gives her on-camera, deathbed testimony about the attempt on her life and her colorful organizing history with the radical environmental movement Earth First!
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