The summer of 1993 was a season of conflict in the ecological treasure chest that is the forests of Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island. Thousands of protesters blocked logging roads every day to stop loggers from cutting down old growth trees. When the forest industry decided it had lost too many battles to the environmentalists, it launched a sophisticated counter attack at the grassroots level. Trish Wood went behind the headlines at Clayoquot Sound to the industry's campaign for timber.
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