{"id":42570,"date":"2019-01-11T07:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42570"},"modified":"2019-01-11T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:06:20","slug":"how-tre-arrow-became-americas-most-wanted-environmental-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42570","title":{"rendered":"How Tre Arrow Became America\u2019s Most Wanted Environmental \u201cTerrorist\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

How Tre Arrow Became America\u2019s Most Wanted Environmental \u201cTerrorist\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The following is an excerpt from the new book\u00a0The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink<\/a> by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank.<\/em><\/p>\n

That Tre Arrow, a tree-hugging vegan who espouses non-violence and lives by the airy and some nebulous philosophy of Gaia, would top the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted list, only reaffirms the notion that the Bureau\u2019s energy is being exerted in specious directions.<\/p>\n

On August 12, 2008, after a tumultuous seven-year investigation, Arrow was sentenced in Federal court to six-and-a-half years for lighting three cement haulers ablaze at the notorious Ross Island Sand and Gravel in Portland, Oregon, as well as firebombing two trucks and one front loader owned by Ray Schoppert Logging Company near the timber town of Estacada, Oregon. The acts were in protest of the Eagle Creek timber sale in Mt. Hood National Forest in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n

Located in a roadless area within Oregon\u2019s Clackamas River watershed, the streams that snake through the old growth groves of Eagle Creek provide drinking water for over 185,000 people in the greater Portland area. Critics of the plan to log Eagle Creek argued that the forest\u2019s steep slopes were in the \u201ctransient snow zone\u201d and would likely lead to future landslides and mass flooding, which would ultimately spoil water quality during the region\u2019s frequent rain-on-snow events. Arrow was one of the most creative and articulate activists opposing the sale.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A grim-faced, 34-year-old Arrow listened warily as Judge James Redden read his sentence. At the behest of his lawyers, Bruce Ellison and Paul Loney, Arrow earlier signed off on a plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice and accepted responsibility for his role in the arsons, even though for years he denied any involvement.<\/p>\n

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How Tre Arrow Became America\u2019s Most Wanted Environmental \u201cTerrorist\u201d Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair The following is an excerpt from the new book\u00a0The Big Heat: Earth on the Brink by Jeffrey St. Clair and Joshua Frank. That Tre Arrow, a tree-hugging vegan who espouses non-violence and lives by the airy and some nebulous philosophy of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[5493,23850,11912,17772,657,23011,23851],"class_list":["post-42570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-environmental-terrorist","tag-jeffrey-st-clair","tag-joshua-frank","tag-protests","tag-the-big-heat","tag-tre-arrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42571,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42570\/revisions\/42571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}