Redwood trees and drought // Qualcomm and the TPP

[Save the Redwood Grove @ Ridge Road + Le Roy Avenue, Berkeley: http://pastebin.com/u/RidgeRedwoods]

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The REDWOOD Trees
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Ridge Redwood Grove protest 2/25: There is a hummingbird which lives in the redwood grove.

Rain is expected tomorrow (Wednesday) through Friday.  Despite the drier conditions this winter, the trees are healthy.  Even though California is in a drought, there is no reason to abandon hope for California redwoods.

There is an article in the Berkeley science review stating that "coast redwoods—both saplings and adults—have a remarkable ability to repair tissue damaged by drought, allowing them to recover when water becomes available again."  Research finds that redwoods trees are not as direly sensitive to drought as previously believed.  While trees may not become the "cathedral like forests" of the past, redwoods trees will remain "far into the future".
http://sciencereview.berkeley.edu/article/big-trees-big-trouble/

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QUALCOMM and the TPP
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The trees are scheduled to be removed in UC Berkeley's expansion plan, for a privately funded design institute, paid for by Paul Jacobs, the former CEO and now current executive chairman of Qualcomm.  Futhermore, one of the UC Regents (Lansing) is on the board of Qualcomm.

Qualcomm is on the member list of the US Business Coalition for TPP (TransPacific Partnership).  Qualcomm would benefit from the highly controversial IP provisions, strengthening patent laws for large corporations.