It is 2003. After a long, difficult series of legal proceedings, climbers from Pacific Lumber physically extract nearly a dozen ‘sitters’ from a grove of ancient redwood trees slated to be clearcut. The events leading to the extraction leave much to be debated, from the county residents who suffer the ecological effects of the local logging practices, to the District Attorney who takes sides against Pacific Lumber, putting his own job at stake when they back a sudden recall election. The real issue at hand is not logging – it is unchecked corporate greed, as the evidence we present will reveal. In the 90’s, a certain tycoon acquired Pacific Lumber and made it his business to inflate the company’s value by overlogging, and liquidate those trees as ‘assets’
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