30 years later, the lessons of Redwood Summer
Nov 01, 2020
3 minutes
BY ADAM M. SOWARDS
THIRTY YEARS AGO, thousands of environmentalists answered a call to converge on California’s North Coast — a landscape characterized by towering trees nurtured by the coastline’s fog and rain — for a summer of resistance. They blocked roads, sat in trees and chained themselves to logging equipment to halt old-growth cutting in what came to be known as “Redwood Summer.”
At first, the activists seemed to have failed: Their coalition unraveled, and the timber companies continued their logging plans. Yet,
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