Description: Memorial for Earth First! activist David "Gypsy" Chain, who was killed protecting Humboldt forests from illegal logging.
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Scholarship
Remembrances
David Nathan Chain was a young forest activist killed in 1998 while trying to prevent illegal logging in an Earth First! action near Grizzly Creek in the Van Duzen River valley. Childhood friends in Texas remember David as a gentle, loving man who considered becoming a chiropractor. Traveling to Humboldt County in the midst of the timber controversy, David learned tree-climbing and nonviolent protest tactics; he took the wood’s name “Gypsy.” The story of his vibrant life and tragic death at twenty-four is d