from: It’s Going Down In so-called British Columbia, a campaign to stop the logging of old-growth forests has been building, with a network of active blockades forming a direct line of resistance to logging. According to the Fairy Creek Blockade on Instagram: […]
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The Return of the War in the Woods?
by BC Blackout The following was received anonymously: March 17, 2021 — From deep in the coastal rainforest, to the streets of the colonial capital of so-called British Columbia, to the front page of the Globe & Mail, something is stirring. After […]
Continue readingCanada: Permanent Protest Camp Established Near Trans Mountain Work Site in Kamloops
Secwépemc protesters have settled in for the long haul in a bid to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project from being completed in Kamloops.
Continue readingWashington: The Fight for the Wild Is on at Chameleon Blockade
by Chameleon Blockade October 8, 2020, The Capitol State Forest, WA: Early Wednesday afternoon just as the fog melted off, a convoy of trucks from at least four different law enforcement agencies parked on a logging road for an unannounced raid on […]
Continue readingCanada: Autonomous Action Against Logging on So-Called Vancouver Island
by some anarchists September 14, 2020, unceded Pacheedaht Territory: On a coast choked in smoke from fires burning a vast swath of this dying planet, up road TR11A on the north side of Edinburgh Mountain on so-called Vancouver Island, we felled seven […]
Continue readingWashington: Forest Defenders Launch Blockade to Stop Logging of the ‘Chameleon’ Timber Sale
Forest Defenders today have launched a blockade to prevent the clear-cut logging of a 100-year-old forest west of Olympia on the traditional territory of the Chehalis people.
Continue readingFlorida: Unpermitted Land Clearing Threatens Protected Wildlife, Developers Plan Housing and Sports Center
by Friends of What Used To Be the Blueberry Farm Gainesville, FL — On Sunday September 20, residents who live and work in the Calf Pond Creek watershed walked the 107 acres of forest on what is known locally as the Blueberry […]
Continue readingBreaking: 2nd Fairy Creek Blockade Established
by BC Blackout August 17, 2020 — Grassroots forest defenders from across Vancouver Island have successfully prevented Teal Jones Group from blasting logging roads into the unlogged headwaters of the Fairy Creek watershed for the past week. On Monday August 10th, a […]
Continue readingCanada: New Blockade to Stop Old-Growth Logging in Fairy Creek Watershed!
BREAKING: Aug 10, 2020, unceded Pacheedaht territory by BC Blackout An informal, grassroots collective of people from across so-called Vancouver Island have established a blockade, preventing Teal Jones Group from blasting roads into the unlogged Fairy Creek watershed. Fairy Creek is the […]
Continue readingNotes from the Field: Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project 2020 Summer Report
by Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project Camas flowers (High Buck sale, Umatilla NF) Despite the pandemic, and the suffering and uncertainty people are facing at this time, we are seeing an even greater push from the current administration to increase ecologically destructive extractive […]
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