Chief Norman Drynock of the Nicomen Indian Band unloads food and basic necessities from volunteer pilot Liam Wright's helicopter Friday. Photo by Jesse Winter/Canada's National Observer
A contingent of 30 "elders for old-growth" travelled down pitch black logging roads Thursday to stall road-building and the clear-cutting of forest giants near the Fairy Creek blockades.
For decades, the Ontario government suspected a pulp and paper mill in Dryden was polluting the English-Wabigoon river system. The contamination became public knowledge in 1970, but First Nations communities in the area are still living with the impacts today.
