<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div>A month or so ago Jim Prall was generous enough to give me a guided tour of his "farm".</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:6E7A114A-7DAA-473A-97A0-654140081ADF" alt="image.jpeg" id="6E7A114A-7DAA-473A-97A0-654140081ADF" width="640" height="480"></div><div> </div><div><img src="cid:0EDAEA55-E2AE-487F-B81E-05D9701525DF" alt="image.jpeg" id="0EDAEA55-E2AE-487F-B81E-05D9701525DF" width="640" height="480"></div><div><br></div><div>Among the many trees he has planted, at various stages of maturity, he showed me this apple tree that pre-dates all of us.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="cid:F54C9930-D476-4B99-8830-1D355697DC24" alt="image.jpeg" id="F54C9930-D476-4B99-8830-1D355697DC24" width="640" height="480"></div><div><br></div><div>Once in a lifetime, if one is so fortunate, they share an afternoon with someone like Jim Prall and take home a feeling of confidence and caring.</div><div><br></div><div>From Jim</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfg6HjDFhdI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfg6HjDFhdI</a></span><br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"If not us, who?</div><div>If not now, when?"</div><div><br></div><div>- Unknown</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On May 7, 2012, at 12:25, "Bill London" <<a href="mailto:london@moscow.com"><a href="mailto:london@moscow.com">london@moscow.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><strong style="MARGIN: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">By David Johnson of the Tribune | Posted: Monday, May
7, 2012 12:00 am </font></font></strong></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">MOSCOW - Two months after
being jailed for going into the street to protest passage of oil company
megaloads through town, Jim Prall said he's making amends by planting a
forest.</font></font></p>
<p style="LINE-HEIGHT: 24px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"I've never felt so good
about being patriotic as I have this spring planting these baby trees," said
Prall, 67. "I feel like, well, it makes up for the trouble I've caused with the
megaloads."</font></font></p>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">More importantly, Prall
said while extracting a bit of his tongue from cheek, converting his five-acre
hay field to an urban forest will be a lasting reminder that natural resource
extraction must be countered by restoration.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"It's really an honor to
be making this place appropriate for the 21st century by planting trees on the
edge of Moscow."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Prall was among the last
three of 11 protesters arrested here during months-long demonstrations against
oversize oil company infrastructure loads being trucked through town en route to
tar sand fields in Canada.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">More than 30
demonstrations ranged in size from around 300 people in the beginning down to a
couple of dozen toward the end. Prall, who was among those protesting the
Vietnam War in the 1960s, initially stayed away from the late-night megaload
protests.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"It was past my bedtime,"
he quipped.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">But on one of the last
nights, Prall said he took a nap, downed some coffee and showed up on Washington
Street. Other protesters and police were about to engage in another encounter as
the megaloads passed through under heavy escort.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"I intended to get
arrested because I didn't want to waste my time," Prall recalled. He harkened
back 46 years to when he was among anti-war protesters, including singer Joan
Baez, demonstrating in Oakland.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"In the '60s, they didn't
take you to jail. They just beat the crap out of you,"</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Prall said. "They carried
Joan Baez and delicately placed her in the paddy wagon. And then they turned
around and wailed the tar out of us."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">But times have changed,
Prall said. When he entered Washington Street to block the megaloads,
"gentlemanly" police arrested him, made sure his handcuffs weren't too tight,
and took him off to jail.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"It's no worse than an
Amtrak berth," he said about sleeping on a cot behind bars. "It's long and
narrow."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Charged at first with
misdemeanor counts of resisting arrest and obstructing a police officer, Prall
eventually pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disturbing the
peace.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"You bet I was disturbing
the peace. I plead guilty to disturbing the peace. I'm always disturbing the
peace," he said. "The peace needs disturbing more often around here to get these
young people woke up."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Prall ended up paying a
total of $340 in fines, court costs and attorney fees - the exact same amount he
paid to purchase the first shipment of seedlings for the megaload forest. "Now
isn't that funny, $340 for the baby trees," he said. "Is this penance for
distressing, not the mayor, but the city council?"</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Prall credited Moscow
Mayor Nancy Chaney for acknowledging the megaload protests as an exercise in
free speech, but blasted city councilors for taking a predictable
pro-development stance.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"And so, for the first
time ever, I've planted white pine, Idaho's state tree. I've planted 25 of them
here," Prall said of about one species among many in the mini-forest. "And I'm
really taking good care of them. I'm really groveling around in the
soil."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Gophers, he said, are one
of the biggest threats to the seedlings. But neighborhood dogs are helping keep
the rodents at bay. And the human neighbors, Prall said, are all in favor or his
plantings, especially since he lets people use the area like a
park.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"My wife, Carolyn
(Berman) said, 'You did it. You've created an attractive
nuisance."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">When he's done, Prall
estimated he'll have planted around 2,000 trees. He acknowledged that he won't
be around to see them at full maturity, but he's giving them a start, creating,
in effect, carbon credits for the future.</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">"I'm out there on my
hands and knees putting baby trees in the ground," Prall said, "to mitigate the
fact that we're rushing headlong toward destruction and that enough people
aren't planting enough trees."</font></font></p></div>
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<p style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff; MARGIN: 10px 0px 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline"><em><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt">Johnson may be contacted
at </font></font></em><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt"><a style="MARGIN: 0px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline" href="mailto:djohnson@lmtribune.com"><font color="#000000"><font style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" face="Times New Roman">djohnson@lmtribune.com</font></font></a></font><em><font face="Times New Roman"><font style="FONT-SIZE: 12.8pt"> or (208)
883-0564.</font></font></em></p></div></div></div>
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