Dead Tree-Sitter Activist Identified as Utah Man
The Santa Clara County coroner’s office identified the tree sitter who died Tuesday after falling from his perch as a 25-year-old Salt Lake City man.
Robert Bryan was an activist with Earth First! who had been in the redwood tree in the Santa Cruz Mountains for only about 12 hours when he fell.
Since August, Earth First! has been staging tree-sit protests against logging company Redwood Empire’s operation in the Ramsey Gulch area about 20 miles south of San Jose.
Investigators still weren’t sure how Bryan fell. Loggers who saw him on the ground said he was not wearing a harness.
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