7 Logging Foes Chained to Equipment Arrested
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Seven Greenpeace activists were arrested in the Tongass National Forest where they had chained themselves to road-building equipment in an attempt to hamper logging operations.
U.S. Forest Service enforcement officers cut the seven out of a logging chain they had used to attach themselves to a large backhoe and a rock-drilling machine at a timber sale site, said Forest Service spokesman Ray Massey.
The activists were cited for violating a forest closure order and blocking a public road.
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