September 8, 2008
A Tree and 4 Sitters Remain on Berkeley Site After Other Trees Are Felled
Berkeley, Calif.
Four tree-sitters are still camped out in a 90-foot redwood at the edge of the University of California campus here in an attempt to stop the university from building an athletics center on the site. But the rest of the trees they were trying to save are gone.
The university brought in crews with chainsaws over the weekend, clearing a grove of oak and redwood trees that has housed dozens of environmental activists for nearly two years. Over the cries of protesters, the crews
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