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Interview | Tree-Sitter Jessica Ostroff on Being Arrested by Helicopter and the Fight to Save the Old-Growth Forests
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English - June 05, 2021 21:31 - 15 minutes - 18.3 MBPolitics News News Commentary politics economics critical theory media Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We spoke with Jessica Ostroff, a tree-sitter involved with the movement to save the last 2.7% of old-growth forests in unceded Pacheedaht and Ditidaht territory on Vancouver Island. Jessica spent eight days suspended around 200 feet off the ground in an ancient cedar tree until Canadian police arrested her from a helicopter. A small group of other tree-sitters were extracted from other locations on the same day. She explains how her team strategically selected the trees to obstruct clear-cut logging and the dangerous manner in which their arrests took place.
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