Tracy Stone-Manning/PHOTO: University of Montana A former investigator with the U.S. Forest Service, who helped prosecute eco-terrorists in an 1989 case, has alleged that Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden ’s nominee to oversee the Bureau of Land Management, was a target of a federal probe before she negotiated an immunity deal for her cooperation.
In a letter to Wyoming Republican Senator John Barrasso , retired investigator Michael Merkley said that Stone-Manning was an active member of a radical environmental group, Earth First!, which planted trees with spikes to make it dangerous or deadly to harvest the trees for lumber. NEW: Biden’s BLM nominee was directly involved in a 1989 eco-terrorism incident, according to the lead investigator of the case. He said Tracy Stone-Manning “was the nastiest of the suspects…She was vulgar, antagonistic and extremely anti-government.” https://t.co/xjf9zmDpTU — Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) July 15, 2021 Tree spiking was implicated in a 1987 […]
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