With two camp strongholds maintained into the third week of direct action blockades preventing road incursions into the headwaters of the the unlogged Fairy Creek, the frontline battle to protect what remains of the internationally-significant old-growth temperate rainforests, escalated in the early hours this morning as another Stone Pacific crew was disrupted in the act of extending the road network of old-growth forest destruction on Pacheedaht territory, across the treacherously steep southeast side slopes of Edinburgh mountain, turned away by a dozen settler forest activists gathered around a fire, under a beautiful art banner made partly with campfire charred wood of an ancient cedar strung across the road reading: Worth More Standing. It was learned over the radio scanner that work crews were not returning today.
” We’re not going to work today. The protesters are on Truck Rd. 11″ was heard over the radio, to cheers from frontline land defenders who woke at 4 am to take another stand to industrial expansion on the land.
Shortly after was heard: ” The grapple has blown apart” An hour later: ” Will take all day to weld” A tough day for Teal Jones contractors in the hills of reckless plunder.
Read more about Fairy Creek here.
To stay at camp and join the land-based resistance to the logging off of Vancouver island’s last unprotected old-growth rainforests and/or to contribute to building critical infrastructure for protection of the life of the old-growth rainforests, please email/ etransfer to: rain4estflyingsquad@gmail.com