“These individuals are trespassing on Pacheedaht ‘First Nation’s {claimed} territory despite our repeated request. They do not speak for us, nor represent our interests.”
“{Uninvited} Advocates against old-growth logging have been {illegally} blocking a bridge over the Gordon River with a large wooden statue of a screech owl for the past week. A camp was set up north of Port Renfrew last Saturday to prevent forestry company ‘Teal Jones’ from accessing cut blocks 7265 and 7263 on Edinburgh Mountain, organizers said on social media.
“‘Savage Patch’, an organization that has claimed responsibility for the latest blockades, said they are unrelated to the ‘Rainforest Flying Squad’, one of the primary organizers of the 2021 Fairy Creek blockades…
“We’re here demonstrating to highlight the fact that old-growth logging is continuing, despite the provincial government’s promises,”
‘Savage Patch’ organizers said in a statement on the Instagram account @fairycreekblockades, which often posts in support of ‘environmental protection’ initiatives for the Fairy Creek watershed.
“‘Savage Patch’ describe themselves as led by “local ‘Indigenous’ {sic} peoples, accomplices and allies”, and say their actions have been blessed by Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones, a former logger and prominent advocate of old-growth protection.
“In a statement to the Times Colonist Saturday, the Pacheedaht ‘Nation’ {a ‘nation’ of 289 people} said they are asking for blockaders to leave and to respect the ‘First Nation’s right to manage the land.
“These individuals are trespassing on Pacheedaht ‘First Nation’s {claimed} territory despite our repeated request”,
the statement said.
“They do not speak for us, nor represent our interests.”
“The ‘nation’ signed a memorandum of understanding with Teal Jones in September 2022 for the two parties to identify and pursue forestry and employment opportunities in the Pacheedaht’s {claimed} ‘traditional territories’.
“The Fairy Creek blockades, which largely occurred during 2021 and 2022, were one of Canada’s largest ‘civil disobedience’ movements.
“The RCMP made 1,100 arrests from May 2021 to February 2022, after Teal Jones obtained an injunction against protesters who blocked roads and set up camp to stop the cutting of old-growth trees at Fairy Creek.”
–‘Old-growth blockaders return to Fairy Creek area; First Nation asks them to leave’,
Michael John Lo, Victoria Times Colonist, Aug.6, 2023
Background (from 2021):
It’s important that the organizers of these illegal actions – the ‘Rainforest Flying Squad’ — be charged the full cost of the policing:
“Fairy Creek logging has been approved by the local ‘First Nation’ band, the Pacheedaht, whose leadership have told the protesters to leave their territory. The band has three sawmills of its own, an important source of revenue.”
“In Vancouver Island’s Fairy Creek watershed, environmentalists have been blockading logging roads since last August. But over the past week, the conflict they’ve been preparing for has finally arrived, as the RCMP showed up in large numbers to begin making arrests.
“So far, nearly 50 people have been arrested, most of them for {illegally} defying a court injunction obtained by the logging company, ‘Teal-Jones’, that has rights to the area defined as ‘Tree Farm Licence 46’.
“Joshua Wright, a spokesperson for the protesters, said more supporters were arriving on Sunday to maintain pressure on the province.
“They can make arrest after arrest, but we will keep doing this until Premier [John] Horgan keeps his promise and protects old-growth forests”,
he said.
“That is the only path to de-escalate this.”
{That’s what you think…}
“The protesters say they are occupying the last unprotected, intact, old-growth valley in the region, with rare yellow cedar trees as old as 2,000 years. The towering old-growth trees in the San Juan Valley have become a destination for nature enthusiasts, but also a valuable resource to the forest industry.
“At the headwaters of Fairy Creek, one of the blockades was established adjacent to a waterfall, high in the mountains. Police arrived on Saturday seeking to clear a key access road into the area that ‘Teal-Jones’ intends to log. They found four protesters chained together, and another dressed as a bear who was locked to a concrete structure that required a jackhammer to extract.
{Don’t be gentle while you free them…}
“The roots of this campaign can be traced back almost three decades, to Clayoquot Sound, where environmentalists blockaded commercial logging operations in a campaign known as the ‘War in the Woods’. More than 850 people were arrested, and ‘British Columbia’s forestry practices came under global scrutiny’.
{Billion-dollar environmental organizations hysterically propagandized worldwide, not caring about the damage to Canada’s reputation.}
“Tzeporah Berman, one of the organizers of the Clayoquot Sound demonstrations, was arrested with five others at the waterfall camp on Saturday. Her support was hailed by organizers who have aimed all along to make this campaign the ‘War of the Woods’.
“But police are facing a far different campaign. At Clayoquot, there was one blockade and day after day, people stepped forward to be arrested. In and around Fairy Creek, there have been dozens of camps over the past nine months. Organizers say there are currently more than 300 {trespassing} supporters {and their garbage} spread out at five locations – and an unknown number of protesters who are hidden in the trees, seeking to disrupt logging operations.
“The challenge is, it is such a large area and there are a lot of people everywhere, there are people living up in the trees”,
said Sergeant Christopher Manseau, spokesman for the B.C. RCMP.
“RCMP officers and equipment have been brought in from around the province, although he would not say how many officers are involved to try to clear the way for ‘Teal-Jones’s operations.
“We feel this is going to be an ongoing thing”,
Sgt. Manseau said.
“This is going to be a long operation – and we are not in a rush.”
“The organizers of the protest, calling themselves the ‘Rainforest Flying Squad’, have called on the media to witness the arrests, hoping to bring pressure on the provincial government that has declined to put a stop to logging old-growth forests such as this.
“The B.C. New Democratic Party government has promised reforms to old-growth logging, but has yet to deliver in a substantive way. The protest has mostly taken place in the Premier’s riding, on southern Vancouver Island. The area has been heavily logged for decades, but still contains some of the most iconic old-growth stands in the province.
“The campaign has kept Mr. Horgan in its sights. “John Horgan, hear our plea, now is the time to save these ancient trees”, a group of protesters sang as police worked to extract them from a heavy chain to arrest them on Saturday.
“The protesters {pompously} call themselves ‘land defenders’, and have highlighted the status of ‘Indigenous’ {sic, Canadian Aboriginals are ‘Indigenous’ to Mongolia and Siberia} supporters to show they are speaking with the authority of those who have been ‘guardians of these lands’ for centuries.
{‘The Myth of Aboriginal Environmental Stewardship’:
“Nothing is so pernicious as the profoundly-racist notion that somehow ‘indigenous peoples’ are genetically endowed with a special relationship, a spiritual kinship, with nature that makes them superior caretakers of the land … Why is so much weight afforded to what is essentially raw, localized experience? If you strip away its spiritual accoutrements, you’re left with little more than the same wisdom that allows a fisherman to gauge impending weather, or derive crude conclusions on the state of fish stocks… Surely, this is common sense. A person of any race or background can, at least in theory, be equally capable of protecting or destroying the environment.”
https://endracebasedlaw.wordpress.com/2016/05/11/the-myth-of-aboriginal-environmental-stewardship/ }
“But that narrative is ‘complicated’. Fairy Creek logging has been approved by the local ‘First Nation’ {Aboriginal} Band, the Pacheedaht {a ‘nation’ of 290 people}, whose leadership have told the protesters to leave their territory. The band has three sawmills of its own, an important source of revenue. The Band Council office was closed on the weekend and at the Band’s Gordon River reserve at Port Renfrew, signs were posted denying access to visitors because of the pandemic.
“Not all Pacheedaht support the official Band position {Not all Canadians support the federal government’s position on anything. So what?}, including {a handful of} youth and elders who have backed the blockades.
“Similar to the rest of the Premier’s riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca, there are divisions within the Pacheedaht and other Nuu-chah-nulth ‘nations’ {Aboriginal communities} in the region.
“Victor Peter, a 19-year-old member of the Pacheedaht, said protecting old-growth trees is a matter of following his traditional teachings. Another Band member, Patrick Victor-Jones, 23, also has come out to support the blockades, adding that there is no unanimity among the ‘nation’ on the issue.
{There doesn’t need to be. Your representatives voted…and you lost. Grow up…}
“Forestry is still an economic driver in the Premier’s riding and tensions between logging crews and the protesters have been high.
{How many of the protesters are not from there? How many Aboriginals are among the protesters?? How come the so-called ‘journalist’ writing this story didn’t ask these questions??? She’s a veteran reporter so there’s really no excuse…except bias.}
“Those who were arrested on Saturday and taken to the RCMP detachment in Lake Cowichan passed a noisy rally of forestry workers, who sought to remind them that the disruption of a legal logging operation is affecting their livelihood.
“Throughout the region, road signs warning traffic of logging trucks have been defaced with anti-logging messages. At Mesachie Lake, graffiti on a road sign responded: “Save the loggers”.
“Mr. Horgan must navigate both those worlds, but the ‘Indigenous’ {sic} issue is the most complex. Unlike the days of the Clayoquot Sound protests, the B.C. government is now legally obliged to seek free, prior and informed consent from ‘Indigenous’ peoples when making decisions on resource matters.”
{And they already have, and received agreement. End of story, except for arrests…}
–‘B.C. logging blockade comes to a head as RCMP start arresting protesters’,
JUSTINE HUNTER, Toronto Globe & Mail, MAY 23, 2021
“The elected chiefs of the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht and Huu-ay-aht, whose ‘nations’ {tribes} all receive a percentage of the logging revenues at stake, have repeatedly told the protesters to go home…
“They’re just starting to gain some economic footing”,
Huu-ay-aht Chief Robert Dennis said in that same article,
“and then – bang – somebody comes along and says ‘Oh, we don’t want you to be economically viable. We don’t want you to have an economy through old-growth forestry … and, by the way you dumb Indians, you don’t know how to manage your forest, so we’re going to say how to manage it for you’.
–‘Is Fairy Creek the Clayoquot Sound of the 2020s? Not quite – and activists need to know why before they can win’,
ARNO KOPECKY, TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL, SEPTEMBER 3, 2021
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