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The HeadWaters campaign in Northern California aims to protect the last old-growth redwood forests from logging by the Pacific Lumber Company. The Pacific Lumber Co. was bought out by Maxxim, a hedge fund company that planned to liquidate its assets including these old-growth forests. HeadWaters has been an ongoing protest lasting over 15 years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_11844764|title=A decade after Headwaters deal, truce comes to Northern California redwood country|author=Paul Rogers Mercury News|date=8 March 2009|publisher=}}</ref>

In 1990, environmental activists [[Judi Bari]] and [[Darryl Cherney]] were injured when a pipe-bomb exploded in the car Bari was driving. The FBI arrested Bari and her friends and accused them of planting the bombs.<ref name="SFGate">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Earth-First-activists-win-case-FBI-cops-must-2829885.php|title=Earth First activists win case / FBI, cops must pay $4.4 million for actions after car bombing|work=SFGate}}</ref> otherOther theories suggest FBI involvement but it remains an open case. A civil case was later brought against the FBI and local police which found Bari's and Cherney's civil rights had been violated.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://articles.latimes.com/print/2012/mar/25/entertainment/la-ca-earth-first-doc-20120325 | work=The Los Angeles Times | title= 'Who Bombed Judi Bari?' documentary seeks an answer | date=March 25, 2012}}</ref>

The largest timber sale in U.S. Forest Service history, the Cove/Mallard Timber Sale, occurred in Idaho from 1992 to 1998. With the aid of a nearby landowner, a former land developer turned activist, Earth First! occupied the forest. As a result, Earth First! succeeded in saving most of the threatened wilderness area. Over 350 people from 12 countries were arrested and the project was reduced from its initial plan of 200 clear-cuts and the construction of seven new roads, to 37 clear-cuts and two new roads.