A woodlot belonging to the Klahoose First Nation on Cortes Island was vandalized multiple times over the last week.
Tactics right out of writer Edward AbbeyB次元官网网址檚 novel The Monkey Wrench Gang were used on the Klahoose wood lot since the First Nation put up ribbons marking a road into the site.
B次元官网网址淎bout three weeks ago we had it all ribboned off for a road to go back. After about four or five days someone went in there and ripped all of the ribbons out. We had to hire somebody to come back and engineer it again,B次元官网网址� said Klahoose Chief Kevin Peacey. B次元官网网址淎 few nights ago, one of the guys went to jump into his machine and it wouldnB次元官网网址檛 start. He looked through his whole machine and somebody had put a bunch of dirt in the gas tank.B次元官网网址�
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The plans are to log the land in question, but Peacey suspects some Cortes Islanders disagree with those plans.
B次元官网网址淭hereB次元官网网址檚 a handful of people on the island who donB次元官网网址檛 support logging, but I just donB次元官网网址檛 think they have a right trespassing on Klahoose and doing that damage to us,B次元官网网址� he said. B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 what level do they come to right? Spiking the trees or who knows what they could do. ItB次元官网网址檚 a sad situation that somebody on the island could do something like that.B次元官网网址�
Peacey said the First Nation has hired a watchman to be on site through the night, and has set up cameras in and around the cutblock.
B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 pretty good friends with the RCMP. He usually pops in once a week,B次元官网网址� Peacey said. B次元官网网址淚B次元官网网址檓 going to have a chat with him and if we find out who it is that is trespassing we will charge them.B次元官网网址�
The damage was limited to one excavator. After a day and a half of work cleaning out the gas tank and the lines it was up and running again. They also replaced all of the ribbons marking the area.
Peacey has received a lot of messages from people in the community after he posted the pictures to Facebook.
B次元官网网址淚 got a lot of messages with people saying whose truck it is, itB次元官网网址檚 nice to have the community reach out to me,B次元官网网址� he said.
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