With a gift from Google, Canadian activists get on the map

Globe and Mail, By Gloria Galloway

A forestry company that decided in 2005 to cut down 400 hectares of redwood forest had no idea that its toughest opposition would come from inside one of the world’s Internet giants.

Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., was a 30-minute drive from the proposed logging site, and the company had just hired a young computer scientist named Rebecca Moore, who was upset at the prospect of losing some of the tallest and oldest trees on the planet.

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