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Is Briana Waters a terrorist?
In an alarming case, U.S. attorneys exploited post-9/11 counterterrorism policies to pursue and prosecute an environmental activist.
By Tracy Tullis [2008-03-27]

  • Point of clarification on what otherwise may be a fine article.

    . . . and a luxurious Vail ski lodge built on mountain lynx habitat,. . .

    The Two Elks Lodge that ELF burned down may or may not be near or in lynx habitat. It sits at the top of Vail's Back Bowls, a part of the ski area that had been used for over 20 years prior to its construction. The new structure did not in any way alter the natural terrain or forest as that part of Vail has been without trees for about 100 years. The south facing Back Bowls, like most southern exposure slopes in the central Rockies, don't support much vegetation. The bowls were partially denuded of what trees there were by a wild fire in the late 19th Century.

    ELF was protesting Vail's expansion into the area named Blue Sky Basin, some two miles as the crow flies south of the Back Bowls, an area which may or may not be lynx habitat (no one seems to know for sure).

    If you didn't get this fact straight, what else did you get wrong?

    -- ikuiku
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    Thursday, March 27, 2008 08:56 AM
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