Ken-Dru Van Jones is among those witnessing the removal of the tree sitters. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
Protesters sit in a 90-foot redwood, the only tree remaining of those UC Berkeley planned to cut down in a grove next to Memorial Stadium. More than 40 trees on the site have been removed since Thursday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

As a crane hoists the top of a redwood that was cut away, a sawyer perches on the trunk. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
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A passerby kicks at debris left by tree sitters who lived in a redwood on the UC Berkeley campus for nearly two years. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)