In the middle of the woods, 20 kilometres from a police barricade, sits a man in a boat in a tree.

He is one of hundreds of activists who have returned to the camps the RCMP has spent weeks trying to clear in their enforcement of a B.C. Supreme Court injunction that allowed a forestry company to continue old-growth logging activities in the area near Port Renfrew, B.C.

“It’s an old wooden sailing dory,” said Lou, describing his vessel. “There’s lots of