Pickaxe (2000)
- Release Date:
01/01/2000
- Rating:
Not Yet Rated
- Runtime:
1 hr 35 mins
- Genre:
- Director:
Tim Lewis
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Cast:
Not Yet Available
Synopsis
Co-directed, co-written, and co-edited by noted environmental activist Tim Ream, Pickaxe documents efforts to halt logging at Warner Creek, a federally protected forest in Oregon. Following a suspicious fire in 1991 that cleared the land, Congress suspended environmental regulations to allow logging in the area. Since arson was determined to be the cause of the fire, however, environmental activists argued that allowing logging at Warner Creek would set a bad example and possibly lead to similarly motivated forest fires. What followed was an 11-month battle, complete with a 79-day hunger strike by Ream himself in front of the Eugene Federal Building.
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