The mining corporation Pacific Lumber Company (Maxxam) enlisted climbers to remove activists camping under the treetops. This video, captured on April 10, 2003, in Freshwater, Humboldt County, California, documents the events. Despite not being government employees or agents, the Humboldt County Sheriff supports these contested arrests. The footage depicts hired climbers cutting activists from their belays and forcibly pulling them from their tents.
—Hayduke