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Press release announcing Linda Cloud chaining herself in protest to flooding the Stanislaus canyon

Status: Live River
By: Linda Cloud and Alexander Gaguine, FOR
Date: March 8, 1982
Description:

Linda Cloud’s press release announcing and explaining her dramatic protest on March 8, 1982 against illegal filling of the upper Stanislaus River canyon. In February 1982, a federal court of appeals held that no further flooding of the canyon could occur until a related case was decided – but filling was continuing, rising as far as Duck Bar, just four miles from complete inundation. After chaining herself to a tree at Parrott’s Ferry she was arrested and taken away.

Format: Document
Collection: Admin's Collection

Date uploaded: Apr 18, 2024
Date last modified: Apr 19, 2024