FEDERAL WAY, Wash. - Police arrested four protesters against logging in northern Ontario who had chained themselves to a flower pot in front of Weyerhaeuser Co. headquarters, as shareholders were streaming into an annual meeting.

The Rainforest Action Network says the one woman and three men went to the meeting Thursday morning with the expectation they would be arrested. The group wants to draw attention to logging in the Whiskey Jack forest, an area the Grassy Narrows First Nations, just north of Kenora, Ont., claims as its traditional lands.

One of the people arrested is from San Francisco, the others are from Washington state.

Brant Olson of Rainforest Action Network says the group had about 20 protesters in front of the building, including five shareholders who went inside to the meeting.

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