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Nitinaht Lake, BC - Just behind Ditidaht Community School sits a 36-foot western red cedar log that, in just six months, will be carved into a canoe by the Ditidaht
A group calling themselves “forest defenders” have been blocking access to the Fairy Creek area, which they say contains the last unlogged watershed in the San Juan River System. Teal Jones is trying to build access roads to an area it wants to log, but the protesters say it would have adverse affects on a protected area of old growth in the valley below.
Protesters have also set up satellite camps to prevent old-growth logging in other areas, including the Walbran Valley, Bugaboo Creek near Avatar Grove, and Edinburgh Mountain.
“It’s not that we’re anti-logging,” Kathleen Code, a spokeswoman for the protesters, said Saturday. “We don’t obstruct second-growth logging. It’s the old-growth forests we have so little of. … That’s our primary focus, that’s what we are protecting.”