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Activists hit roof to protest logging

March 14, 2007 Activists hit roof to protest logging

BOTHELL, Wash. – Two protestors chained themselves to the top of a roof to protest a developer's building practices.

Wednesday afternoon in Bothell, two activists from the Rainforest Action Network climbed atop a Quadrant model home to protest clearcutting in Canada.

They unfurled a large banner that read "Weyerhaeuser: We'll Leave Your Home When You Leave Ours."

The protestors want Quadrant and Weyerhaeuser to use more environmentally friendly logging practices.

The rooftop protest came after a meeting between members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation and top Weyerhaeuser executives failed to resolve differences over logging operations within the community's ancestral territory.

The protestors were arrested after firefighters helped them off the roof.