Logging Protested

About 100 protesters jammed the foyer of the head office of International Forest Products on Monday, demanding it stop logging on lands claimed by native groups.

Members of the Nuxalt nation from the Bella Coola area on British Columbia’s north coast beat drums and were joined by supporters of the environmental group Forest Action Network as more than a dozen police officers watched.

The protesters finally left the building, escorted by police, at about 5 p.m. There were no arrests.

The demonstration began in the afternoon as about two dozen Nuxalt members and supporters appeared in B.C. Supreme Court charged with violating an injunction.

They had been arrested Sept. 26 after trying to stop International Forest from building a logging road into old-growth forest in the Fogg Creek watershed on King Island, on the B.C. coast.