They’ve spread to two other locations in the area, at Edinburgh Mountain and Bugaboo Creek, near Avatar Grove, to prevent Teal Jones from advancing with logging equipment.
Joshua Wright, an environmental activist based in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula who is closely connected to the protest group, said they’re playing a “cat-and-mouse” game, blocking the company’s equipment until they move to another location and following workers to set up new blockade wherever they go.
“Essentially, what we’re trying to do is shut down any logging or road building into any old-growth forest anywhere,” Wright said.
The area is part of Tree Farm Licence 46, which is held by Surrey-based Teal Jones, and home to western red and yellow cedars, hemlocks and Amabilis fir that are hundreds of years old.