Greenpeace Protesters Arrested in Alaska

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Seven Greenpeace activists were arrested Thursday at a logging protest site in the Tongass National Forest where they had chained themselves to road-building equipment.
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.


They were cited for violating a forest closure order issued Wednesday, and with interfering with the national forest system and blocking a public road. They were taken to Wrangell where they were going before a federal magistrate, Massey said.

The Greenpeace campaign calling for a moratorium on large-scale logging operations on public lands was launched in Oregon on June 1. Washington, Idaho and Montana also are part of the campaign.

Protester Jeremy Paster, who was cited Wednesday with more than a dozen others for violating the closure order, said a Greenpeace lawyer was with the seven arrested activists in Wrangell.

Greenpeace objects to a Bush administration proposal that would let governors decide whether to seek protection for roadless areas of national forest land. The proposal would replace Clinton-era rules that protected 58.5 million of the 191 million acres of national forest


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Logging-Protest.html

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1. I don't agree with Bush, either

His environmental policies are a joke. But on the whole, and that includes this little stunt, Greenpeace drives me nuts. They're in the news a lot, but they don't actually accomplish much for the environment. I'll bet their lawyers love them, though!

Sierra Club and National Wildlife Federation are the way to go.

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2. kick

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