Ashley Oliver 15 Jul 2021
One of the men convicted in a 1989 ecoterrorism crime has stated that Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was an active accomplice in his crime who knew about it “far in advance.”
John P. Blount, who spiked trees in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest in 1989 and was later sentenced to 17 months in prison for it, said Stone-Manning was complicit in his act of ecoterrorism, E&E News reported Thursday.
“She knew about it far in advance, a couple of months before we headed out,” Blount said, according to the outlet.
Stone-Manning belonged to the environmental extremist group Earth First! — members of which committed acts of ecoterrorism during the 1980s and 1990s — while she was a graduate student at the University of Montana in Missoula.
In 1989, while in graduate school, Stone-Manning mailed a
profane letter to the U.S. Forest Service on behalf of Blount, alerting
authorities that trees in the Idaho forest that were scheduled to be
cut down had been sabotaged with metal spikes to prevent them from being
harvested. Tree spiking, as this form of sabotage is called, is both a
crime, and according to the FBI’s definition, an act of ecoterrorism
that can damage or destroy expensive logging equipment and injure or
kill loggers or millworkers processing the spiked trees.........To Read More......
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