Clayoquot Sound is an old growth forest tract on the isolated west coast of Vancouver Island. In 1984 the first ever Canadian logging blockades occurred on Meares Island after the BC government announced that 90% of the island was to be logged. A legal injuction against logging on Meares island was soon after granted to the Nuu-chah-nulth. In 1993 a famous protest was staged over the government's decision to log 2/3 of the pristine old growth forest of Clayoquot Sound. Activists blockaded the only bridge to a logging site for 5 months. The logging giant, Macmillan Bloedel obtained a court injuction banning blockades. The RCMP arrested 859 people for criminal contempt, making it the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada to date.
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