[1][2] A protest associated with Redwood Summer took place in June 1990 at the Louisiana Pacific export dock in Samoa, California.
Before the protests officially started, the campaign gained international attention on May 24, 1990 when the campaign leader, Judi Bari, and a fellow activist, Darryl Cherney, were involved in a pipe bomb explosion that critically injured them while they were driving through Oakland, California.
[4] The movement was also known to use many controversial techniques to disrupt the logging companies including tree spiking, symbolic protests, and disarming machinery.
It would have also authorized the sale of $742 million in bonds to acquire forestlands and for compensation of timber employees.
[9] The second incident began when the news of the Pacific Lumber Company being bought out by Maxxam Inc. was made public.
Bari and Cherney claimed that they had received many death threats in the previous weeks making them believe that the bomb was an assassination attempt.
[5][13] Bari and Cherney's case eventually made it to trial where they were found not guilty due to the FBI not doing a proper investigation and having a lack of evidence.
[12] In the coming years and after both Bari and Cherney's names were cleared, they sued the FBI for violating their constitutional right.
On June 11, 2002, roughly twelve years after the bombing, the jury found that the FBI unlawfully violated the pair's first and fourth amendment rights by arresting them, charging them, searching their homes, and defamation of character.
activists claimed to be non violent, using civil and passive disobedient actions to save the redwood forests.
However, one event made environmental groups, including Earth First!, denounce tree spiking.
declared that it would stop using tree spiking as means of disrupting the logging industry as it posed threats to human life.
[3] On one occasion, forty-four activists were arrested in front of the main gate of the Louisiana-Pacific Pulp Mill[2] in Samoa, California.
On many instances the protestors camouflaged themselves using nature, such as leaves and sticks, and sang Native American war cries.
[3] The Redwood Summer campaign gained international attention and made many people aware of the destruction of the old growth forests.