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handmade34

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Fri Apr 27, 2018, 06:51 PM Apr 2018

"The Forest Service Is Arresting Protesters"



https://www.outsideonline.com/2300611/tree-sitters-trying-save-pipeline


For two months, protesters have sat in platforms perched among the trees near Peters Mountain, located in Jefferson National Forest. Their goal is to block logging in the area that will prepare the way for the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile operation that will feed natural gas through the forest and cross the Appalachian Trail. And for two months the protests were peaceful, until last Sunday.....
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"The Forest Service Is Arresting Protesters" (Original Post) handmade34 Apr 2018 OP
Shouldn't this be in GD? The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #1
+ 1 red dog 1 Apr 2018 #2
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