British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protesters are sleeping in the road to stop it
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Logged trees lie in a section of the Prince of Wales Range near Campbell River, British Columbia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Land defender Steven "Shambu" Daniluk drives down a road used for logging near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Land defender Steven "Shambu" Daniluk peers up at an old growth tree near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Veronika Sitar, an outdoor enthusiast, sits on the stump of a yellow cedar in a recently logged area of the Prince of Wales Range, near Campbell River, British Columbia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Veronika Sitar, an outdoor enthusiast, shows an image on her phone of herself sitting at a yellow cedar just weeks before it was logged in the Prince of Wales Range, near Campbell River, British Columbia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Veronika Sitar, an outdoor enthusiast, lies on a yellow cedar stump within a logged area near Campbell River, British Columbia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Logging roads wind through mountains near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Bill Jones, a First Nations Pacheedaht elder, speaks to land defenders during a logging blockade near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Bill Jones, a First Nations Pacheedaht elder, prepares to join a blockade on a road used for logging before dawn near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Land defenders gather on a logging road before dawn as a logging vehicle approaches the blockade near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Logs float on the water in Jordan River, British Columbia, Wednesday, May 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)A bald eagle's nest sits atop a remaining tree within a logged area near Campbell River, British Columbia, Saturday, May 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Andy MacKinnon, a forest ecologist, stands beneath the forest canopy near Victoria, British Columbia, Friday, May 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Visitors walk through Cathedral Grove, an old growth forest in MacMillan Provincial Park near Port Alberni, British Columbia, Saturday, May 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)Moss drips from tree branches in a forest near Port Renfrew, British Columbia, Thursday, May 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)
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Logged trees lie in a section of the Prince of Wales Range near Campbell River, British Columbia, Sunday, May 31, 2026. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag)