Jailed Logging Foe Continues Fast

Tue., March 9, 1999

Jailed on Feb. 26 for her logging protests last summer, Moscow activist Lori Graves entered her second week of a hunger strike Monday.

Graves, 29, who is serving 20 days in the Latah County jail for sitting in a tripod in the middle of a Forest Service road, has not eaten solid food since she was imprisoned, jail officials said Monday.

The jail is providing Graves vitamins and extra juice because she isn’t eating the solid food served three times a day, officials said.

In a statement issued Monday, Graves said her hunger strike is a plea to U.S. Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck to stop the destruction of the largest roadless area in the 48 contiguous states.

Activists also want the Otter-Wing timber sale included in the recently enacted road-building moratorium and say the Forest Service violated environmental regulations last year while building roads.

“The strike is also in protest of the injustice of the sentences incurred by concerned citizens exercising freedom of speech and public protest in order to protect our natural heritage from irreparable damage,” Graves said.

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