2 Oregon Protesters End Treetop Vigil, Surrender
Two environmental protesters came down from their treetop perches and into the waiting arms of sheriff’s deputies Friday after professional climbers scaled a tree and cut loose one man’s food and water.
The tree-sitters were trying to stop construction of a logging road and prevent the taking of timber in a remote section of the Siskiyou National Forest. They and a third person on a ridge overlooking the site were charged with trespassing.
The sitters had taken the places of three who had spent eight days in the trees before one was arrested .
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