Speaking for the Trees

摘要

If you want to see what environ-mental terrorism looks like, just drive up Greenwood Heights Road," says Sparrow, a diminutive elderly woman who has heen supporting tree-sitters in her neighborhood, called Freshwater, nearly 300 miles north of San Francisco on Highway 101. "You will see beautiful, 1,600-year-old trees that have been cut down to feed one mans greed." In 1999, a portion of Northern California's Headwaters forest was purchased with $380 million in state and federal funds paid to junk bond financier Charles Hurwitz, whose company MAXXAM took over Pacific Lumber in 1986.