“For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of the original redwood forests have been destroyed by timber corporations. ... Big business cut-and-run logging operations have instilled a false dichotomy: jobs versus the environment.”
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Julia Hill
Julia Hill, born on February 18, 1974, is an environmental activist known for her protest against a wind farm in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. She gained prominence in 2003 when she climbed Mount Palos Conden to protest the environmental impact of the wind farm, an action that lasted 79 days and eventually led the developers to withdraw the project. more
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