Feb 20, 008 - Link to orginal Story
First Nations landowners started a blockade of forestry operations on February 9th when the logging contractor employed by Canfor began cutting a road right of way onto the keyoh (a forested region near the headwaters of the Salmon River in British Columbia).
Yesterday the loggers fought back by dumping logs across the only road leading into and out of the Maiyoo Keyoh blockade.
“We asked them how we can get out if we have a medical emergency” Maiyoo Keyoh spokesperson Jim Munroe reported from the site about 100 kilometers by road east of Fort St James.
“They told us that’s our problem.”
He said the loggers also said that if anything happens to the logs piled across the road “we’ll bring our big guns out.”