This story was updated at 2:45 p.m. EDT.
A group of about 25 community activists in southern Oregon are holding what they call a blockade to stop an already approved Bureau of Land Management logging project that includes old-growth trees.
Advocates started the protest last week and have taken turns, one by one, sitting on a perch about 100 feet high on the branch of a ponderosa pine tree that’s part of the planned logging project. They attached a sign to the tree that reads, “No old-growth logging in a climate crisis.”
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Activists are standing in front of other trees in an effort to prevent them from being cut down.
