Grant Hadwin

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Thomas Grant Hadwin was a Canadian forest engineer. In January 1997, he felled Kiidk'yaas, a Sitka Spruce tree located on the Haida Gwaii archipelago and considered sacred by the Haida people. Hadwin stated that he cut the tree down as a protest against the logging industry. While facing criminal charges for the act, he disappeared en route to his trial. His fate remains unknown.

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