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FS> GM> Now, here's your chance to be factual, Frank.  Where's the evidence
FS> GM> that environmentalists LOVE spiking trees?  Give the facts, Frank.
FS> GM> Name the people involved.  Show that they did what you claim.
FS> GM> Show that they're environmentalists and not someone trying to
FS> GM> discredit environmentalists.  Show that all environmentalists are
FS> GM> involved in this activity, or most of them, or even more than a few
FS> GM> and that they LOVE to do this.  Be careful with the facts, Frank.

FS>All of that has been shown in the papers long ago, Gary.  It's
FS>obvious that someone must love to do something if he's willing to
FS>climb trees to drive spikes into them.  That's not an action
FS>anyone would do if he didn't really want to do it.

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS CONVICTED

Many environmentalists have been convicted in a court of law on diverse
criminal and civil charges.

October 3 1996. Helena, Montana. Earth Firster Ronald J. Constable, 27,
was sentenced in federal court to one year in a federal penitentiary,
$200 in restitution, one year of supervised probation and 500 hours of
community service for tree spiking in an October 1993 incident near
Essex, Montana (see 1993). Constable was permanently prohibited from
entering any state or federal public lands. In June 1996 he became the
first person to be convicted under a 1988 federal law against tree
spiking. An undercover agent found Earth First literature in his
possession. Constable admitted affiliation with Earth First.
"Tree-spiking conviction a first," Helena Independent Record, Saturday,
October 5, 1996, by Mark Goldstein, p. 1A.

April 1, 1994. Kalispell, Montana. District Court Judge Michael Keedy
sentenced two brothers, Earth Firsters Daniel Sean Carter and Michael
Thomas Carter, for spiking trees, cutting down billboards and
vandalizing logging equipment. Daniel pleaded guilty to 2 of 4 counts of
felony criminal mischief, received nine years in prison, suspended,
ordered to pay $5,884 in restitution and 200 hours community service.
Two charges of cutting down signs were dismissed. Michael pleaded guilty
to 3 of 12 counts of felony criminal mischief, was given 19 years prison
with all but 90 days in county jail suspended, ordered to pay $34,473 in
restitution and 200 hours community service. Other charges of cutting
down billboards were dismissed. Michael was also convicted of
vandalizing equipment belonging to Schellinger Construction Company. The
crimes were committed between December 1989 and July 1991. The brothers
worked as carpenters. "Carter brothers to pay $40,000 for spiking
trees," Hungry Horse News, Thursday, April 7, 1994, by Becky Shay, p.
25.

8/11/93. Spokane, Washington. Earth Firsters John P. Blount, 32, of
Masonville, Colorado, and Jeffrey C. Fairchild, 27, Ashland, Wisconsin,
were sentenced for convictions on two counts of tree spiking the Post
Office Creek timber sale in Idaho in March 1989, two counts of
destruction of federal property and two counts of conspiracy. Blount was
handed a 17-month jail term and fined $1,000. Fairchild was given 60
days in jail and a $1,000 fine. Both were ordered to pay a one-quarter
share of the $19,639 in damage to spiked trees. A third defendant,
Daniel A. LaCrosse, 36, Salem, New Hampshire, was charged with
conspiracy to spike trees and conspiracy to destroy government property.
Two other defendants, Arvid Hartley and Neil McClain were both sentenced
to 90 days home detention and ordered to pay their share of the $19,639.
"Clearwater Forest Trial Opens In Idaho Tree-Spiking Case - Lawyer
Denies Intent To Harm Anyone," Lewiston Tribune, June 8, 1993, by The
Associated Press, p. 5A. See also, "U.S. tree-spiker sentences
`surprisingly' stiff," Vancouver Sun (British Columbia), August 17,
1993, by Neal Hall, p. C1.

6/4/93. Missoula, Montana. Arvid E. Hartley and Neil K. McLain pleaded
guilty in federal court to misdemeanor charges of spiking trees in
Idaho. They agreed to testify against three others accused in a
tree-spiking March 29, 1989. Accused were John Blount, Jeffrey C.
Fairchild and Daniel A. LaCrosse. Hartley and McLain both admitted that
they put metal spikes in trees with the intent to hinder a timber sale
in the Post Office Creek area of the Clearwater National Forest near
Powell, Idaho. "Two Plead Guilty To Spiking Trees To Stop Sales In
Idaho," Portland Oregonian, Saturday, June 5, 1993, from correspondent
and wire reports, p. B8.

8/13/92. Cove/Mallard, Idaho. Three Earth First activists pleaded guilty
to criminal trespass and spent 9 days in jail for locking themselves to
road-construction equipment in Nez Perce National Forest. Tree-spiking
discovered in old-growth timber stand nearby. The three had been charged
with resisting arrest, obstructing justice and injury to a vehicle. Each
was fined $100 and sentenced to 60 days in jail. "Earth First! Activists
Get Out of Jail - Trio Had Chained Selves To Road Construction Gear In
Idaho; Spiked Tree Found Nearby," Rocky Mountain News, Thursday August
13, 1992, by Associated Press, p. 1.
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Copyright 2001 Associated Press
July 27, 2001

VANCOUVER, Wash. - The Earth Liberation Front's press office in
Portland, Ore., has released a statement from a group claiming
responsibility for spiking hundreds of trees in the Gifford Pinchot
National Forest.

A statement faxed from the anonymous group Friday said the spikes were
designed to block logging on 99 acres of old-growth forest in the Upper
Greenhorn timber sale. The forest is home to spotted owls, bear, lynx,
wolf, goshawk and other wildlife, the statement said.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Reuter - A radical U.S. environmental group
said Tuesday it will send trained saboteurs to disrupt the logging of an
ancient rain forest off Canada's west coast.

The California-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said it will
dispatch a crew of ``trained ecotage agents'' by boat to drive long
nails into trees and sabotage logging equipment in Clayoquot Sound on
Vancouver Island.
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