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Photos: Climate activists initiate tree-sit protest against clear-cut logging and climate change

Sarah Northrop
April 16, 2019
Sarah Northrop

UO student Robi Robichaud sits in a tree across from the EMU. Cascadia Forest Defenders initiated a week-long tree-sit on April 16, 2019, to protest clearcut logging and climate change on the Unversity of Oregon campus. (Sarah Northrop/Emerald)

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UO student Robi Robichaud sits in a tree across from the EMU. Cascadia Forest Defenders initiated a week-long tree-sit on April 16, 2019, to protest clearcut logging and climate change on the Unversity of Oregon campus. (Sarah Northrop/Emerald)

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