Dogwood Alliance marks two decades of defending Southern forests
Story Date: 11/22/2016

 

Source: MOUNTAIN XPRESS, 11/1/816

Danna Smith was hanging over the side of a supertanker docked in the port of Savannah, Ga., when she found her calling. Smith and co-conspirators working with the Rainforest Action Network had walked onto the ship, which was loaded with Brazilian mahogany, to hang a massive banner saying, “Save the Amazon: Ban Mahogany Imports.”But as the young environmental lawyer dangled there for six hours, suspended in a harness...

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