Anti-loggers locked in behind pickets
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26/01/1999
An anti-logging group is considering legal action against Otway timber workers using a picket line to block its members from leaving a logging site near Apollo Bay (Australia). An Otway Ranges Environmental Network spokesman, Mr Adrian Whitehead, said four protesters had escaped the enclosed site by trekking through the bush yesterday, but eight protesters were still trapped behind the picket lines with limited food. Mr Whitehead said the logging protesters had set up a camp in the coupe on Sunday to protest against the logging of hardwood in regrowth areas of state forest.