Blockade halts company logging

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2002

Weyerhaeuser Corp. is promising to meet with the Penticton First Nation of British Columbia in response to a blockade that has halted logging around a mountain.

The band wants certain parts of the forest protected. Chief Stewart Phillip also wants some proceeds from timber sales.

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Logging halted by native protest in Okanagan (CBC 6/17)