Boson's 'War in the Woods' - Hundred's Arrested In Logging Protest In East Blue Hills
Police escort a protester away after their arrest for blocking a logging road on southern Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Activists seeking to halt cutting of ancient trees have chained themselves to trunks in remote woodland in the East Blue Hills Boson, MA: Police in the Eastern Blue Hills Reservation have arrested more than 270 people as a conflict over old growth logging in Massachusetts’ ancient rainforests continues to grow. At the protest blockades in the remote woodland, hundreds of activists have been chaining themselves to giant tripods made from the trunks of felled trees, suspending themselves in trees for days or more at a time, and even securing their arms inside devices called “sleeping dragons” cemented into the roadway. The movement is an attempt to pressure the Massachusetts government to halt the cutting of what activists and experts say is the last 3% of ancient trees left standing in the state. A series of clearcuts are seen on a mountain side ne
