The 15-foot wooden cougar sculpture erected this summer to block forestry workers from accessing the Upper Walbran Valley in Pacheedaht First Nations territory is a pile of cold ashes on the dirt road. …This new wave of arrests in the Walbran Valley near Port Renfrew follows the Fairy Creek blockades in Tree Farm Licence 46. …Mounties say they have arrested seven individuals since they started clearing the Cougar protest camp. …A contractor working with the RCMP to clear the road so Tsawak-qin can resume operations says the actions of the protestors, who refer to themselves as forest defenders, are creating a “substantial risk of severe injury or death”. The local contractor said it took the RCMP task force roughly four and a half hours to safely remove an individual with his arm down a 45-gallon barrel wrapped with steel cable and cemented, a tactic known as ‘sleeping dragon’.