LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. – The Mounties in British Columbia say protesters breaching an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island cut 18 trees.
In a news release late Saturday, police say RCMP Chief Supt. John Brewer found the trees had been cut with chainsaws and laid across a road to block vehicle access.
It says one person was also found to be smoking a cigarette surrounded by dry and tinder forest.
