Roy L Hales/ CKTZ News - Using interviews, video footage and written accounts, CKTZ News has drawn up a Fairy Creek chronology. “We don’t have a lot of old growth to lose. We’re down to about 2% of our productive old growth, of what we once had. Vancouver was once covered in trees that had the girth of a good third of my house. Those forests are gone. We’re now down to forests with large trees and forests with very large trees,” Rainforest Flying Squad spokesperson Carol Tootle told CKTZ News. She and about 30 activists from Victoria assembled at Fairy Creek on August 9th, 2020, after hearing it was the last intact watershed on Vancouver Island. They informed the Pacheedaht First Nation before throwing up the first logging blockade. “It’s about stopping the logging in the tree farm license that Teal Jones owns and is licensed to log that area. They are currently taking legal action to stop us from protecting the old growth that they want to destroy,” explained Pacheedaht Elder Bill Jones, in a video.He spoke of the ancient forests like Fairy Creek as holy places, where his people used to go for prayer and meditation. The day that video was released, Teal Jones obtained an injunction requiring the protestors to step aside at Fairy Creek.On April 12th, 2021 alleged Hereditary Chief Frank Queesto Jones and Chief Coun. Jeff Jones of the Pacheedaht First Nation issued a joint press release asking the protesters to leave. “We do not welcome or support unsolicited involvement or interference by others in our territory, including third-party activism. Pacheedaht needs to be left in peace to engage in our community-led stewardship planning process, so that we can determine our own way forward as a strong and independent Nation.” The Hereditary Chief’s involvement was significant, as the Chief Counsellor’s legal authority is limited to the reserve.Elder Jones responded, “Frank Jones claiming himself as a heredity chief is false. He is not eligible to make the claim for the Jones family line, and is not informed by the hereditary system amongst our peoples. In fact, the Jones family is not originally from the territory, and have no chief rights to the San Juan valley.” He said the Peter(s) family are the governing authority responsible for this valley and 18-year-old Victor Peter, who wants to preserve the forests, is the Hereditary Chief of the Pacheedaht Nation.” Peter confirmed this. On May 18th, the RCMP moved in to enforce the injunction. In what would soon become an almost daily routine, they arrested five protesters. There is more in the podcast.