<img src="https://media.eaglewebservices.com/public/2019/12/1575460148884.png">Sutu Forte in the tree photo courtesy<a href="https://krcgtv.com/news/local/columbia-woman-protests-in-tree-house-to-block-construction-of-new-trail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: blue; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;KCRG TV</a> COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia woman who spent a week in a tree to protest the city’s plans to build a trail through a private nature area has been charged with trespassing. Susan Fourcade, known better as Sutu Forte, was charged Monday with first-degree trespassing. Forte began her protest Oct. 28 in in a tree on the Its Our Wild Nature group’s property. The tree was one of more than 40 trees scheduled to be removed to build a 10-foot-wide path through the property. Forte&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/27893e1535d546b8bdb0e27295aa13dd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 125, 165);">was removed</a>&nbsp;from the tree Nov. 5 with a fire truck’s hydraulic bucket after she defied a court order to climb down. The city won the right to put the trail through in an eminent domain action upheld in county and state courts.___

Missouri tree protester charged with trespassing