Show-Me Senator Hawley Call Out 'Lying' Over Alleged Ecoterrorism

This story resonated in conservative circles this week but we wanted to share the best write-up we've seen so far . . . Here are the basics:

On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., accused  Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning of lying to Congress about her role with a radical environmental group that “spiked” trees in the Clearwater National Forest near the Montana-Idaho border. Tree spiking consists of inserting metal rods into trees and is a form of ecoterrorism used by far-left activists in the 1980s and 1990s. The rods then become deadly projectiles when the trees are processed for logging. While they are intended to intimidate workers in the timber industry, metal mines planted in trees have also injured firefighters hastily working to extinguish massive blazes.

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Hawley Confronts Public Lands Chief For Lying About Ecoterrorism

Hawley accused BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning of lying to Congress about her role with an ecoterrorist group that "spiked" trees in 1989.

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