Environmental terror group says Forest Service facilities are targets for terrorism (9/5/2002)

As the nation prepares to honor the one year anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks, an environmental terror group is bragging about its involvement in the destruction of a U.S. Forest Service research station and calling other Forest Service facilities “likely targets” for future terror acts.

The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), one of the nation’s most active domestic terrorist organizations, according to the FBI, claimed responsibility for an August 11 arson that caused $700,000 damage to a U.S. Forest Service research office in Irvine, Pennsylvania.  It targeted the facility in response to timber sales, oil drilling and “greed driven manipulation of nature” in the Allegheny National Forest.

“This facility was strategically targeted, and if rebuilt, will be targeted again for complete destruction,” the group said in an anonymous communiqué.  “Furthermore, all other U.S. Forest Service administration and research facilities…should now be considered likely targets.”

Eco-terrorism occurs across the nation.  Special Agent Bill Fox with the Forest Service’s Northern Region office in Missoula, Montana said the Service has seen changes in protestors over the years. Increasingly, he said, there is violence or at least the threat of violence associated with environmental protests.

To help combat environmental terrorism, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has drafted model legislation to help the states prosecute eco-terror and animal rights terror organizations as well as more “mainstream” groups that support terror tactics. For more information about the model legislation, contact the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance at (614) 888-4868.

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