WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2000

FIRST BLOCKADE ARREST AT CLAYOQUOT SOUND SINCE 1993 WOMAN ARRESTED FOR BLOCKADING AT INTERFOR CUTBLOCK ON NATIONAL PARK BORDER 

(Tofino) At 8:45 AM today,Heather Cain, a 29 year old local Tofino Bed and Breakfast host courageously stood in the way of loggers who were on their way to cut an INTERFOR block on the border of Pacific Rim National Park. 

Old growth logging may be legal but it is not morally or ecologically just. I refuse to stand aside while INTERFOR continues their piecemeal destruction of the forests, says Heather Cain, after being released from the Ucluelet detachment of the RCMP. 

The contractor, Alliford Bay Logging of Nanaimo, is being used as a front, yet INTERFOR is ultimately responsible. It is INTERFOR¹s Tree Farm License (TFL 54), INTERFOR designed the cutblock and it was INTERFOR who decided to place it 75 metres from the Park border. 
Clayoquot Sound¹s recent designation as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve is a clear recognition of it¹s ecological heritage and global importance and it is criminal to allow INTERFOR¹s industrial logging to pull the ecosystem apart at it¹s seams. This logging is costing job loss to our region, says Mike Mullin, 70.67.37.33 of Clayoquot Sound Director. 

The cutblock on the edge of Pacific Rim National Park is one of the last remaining stands of old growth in the Kennedy Flats area which includes the core of the Clayoquot Biosphere Reserve. 

For more information please call Edward May at (250) 725 4218 

70.67.37.33 of Clayoquot Sound
Box 489, Tofino, BC  V0R 2Z0
(250) 725-4218 tel  725-2527 fax email: focs@web.net
website: www.ancientrainforest.org

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