The Lower Kootenay Band has sent a letter to B.C.’s forests ministry and to a timber company telling them to stop logging in an area known as the Argenta-Johnsons Landing Face on the east shore of Kootenay Lake. “We demand that the forest company, Cooper Creek Cedar, stop logging on the Argenta-Johnsons Landing Face and benches immediately”. It is signed by Nasuʔkin Jason Louie, the chief of the band that is located near Creston. …The Argenta-Johnsons Landing Face is a forested mountainside bordered on three sides by the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park and on the west by Kootenay Lake. …For several years a local group has been unsuccessfully attempting to persuade the province to protect the area from logging. …To clear the way for the logging, the RCMP arrested 17 people on May 17. Another two were arrested this month.