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Sentences Issued in Cove/Mallard Protest

From staff and wire reports
Spokesman-Review, IDAHO ED, P B3
Friday, October 27, 1995

MOSCOW, IDAHO - A dozen environmental activists will spend 7 to 20 days in jail for the way they protested logging and roadbuilding in a central Idaho forest area.

   U.S. District Judge Mikel Williams on Thursday sentenced 10 people who went into a closed area to protest a timber sale to 7 days in jail with fines of $500 each.  Sarah Wilner was fined $500 and sentenced to 20 days in jail and Jill Ondrey was sentenced to 15 days and a $1,000 fine.

   The protesters wanted to stop logging in the Cove-Mallard area.

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