April 2006
Members of the St'at'imc Nation at the N'Quatqua reserve in British Columbia set up a blockade of Portage Road on Monday, April 24th, to stop the planned logging of more than 85 hectares of forest in traditional territory by CRB Logging and the N'Quatqua Logging Company.
The sole shareholder of the N'Quatqua Logging Company is band council Chief Harry O'Donaghey. More than 80 percent of the N'Quatqua band voted no to the planned logging.
Deer, spotted owls, wolves, grizzly bears, lynx, water, medicinal plants, ceremonial sites and the St'at'imc cycle of life are threatened by the logging, say the blockaders.
St'at'imc elders from the Mount Currie reserve have been showing up at the N'Quatqua blockade to show their support.