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A Redbud Woods protestor identified as "Mudy" climbs a tree Friday morning on July 15, 2005 in Ithaca, N.Y. Mudy, who was later identified as Cody B. Sides, 24, of Summerville, Tenn. said he was also a protester in Humboldt County, Calif. trying to save redwood trees.
In 2001, Cornell University planned to replace dormitories on its West Campus, placing a new building on an existing parking lot. To replace this parking lot, Cornell proposed building a new lot in a nearby area known as Redbud Woods. After the City of Ithaca failed to stop the project in the courts, students called “Red Buddies” staged a series protests on campus in the early spring of 2005. The lot the students were protecting housed no rare species or endangered habitat. Eastern Redbud trees are not native to the state of New York and the trees were planted for ornamental reasons in the early 1900s. The trees had only grown wild in the decades since the Great Depression, a reality common to much of what was once farmland throughout the area.
As construction became imminent, students moved the protests to the woods leading to a confrontation with workers using chainsaws to take down the trees on June 6, 2005. A standoff ensued from June 6 until the last protester was arrested on July 20.
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