Forest Defenders: Images of Nonviolent Eco-Activism

photo: Christopher LaMarca/Redux

A wooden platform is hoisted high into the forest canopy. A spider's web of rope secures the station to other treetops in an area as large as eight acres. If any one tree in the web is taken down by a logger, the platform will tumble, injuring or killing the "tree sitter," who camps alone at the plaform with weeks of provisions.

CL: "You think this is geared to young, idealistic kids -- who else would do this? But it's a broad range, from kids that are eighteen years old to law students to parents, people who have families -- even grandparents."