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...History's costliest ecoterrorist strike was carried out on behalf of the (a) spotted owl (b) lynx (c) snail darter (d) grizzly bear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 1998 TIME Current Events Quiz | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...ecoterrorist strike on Vail Mountain, Colo. [CRIME, Nov. 2], was the first ever on behalf of saving the lynx. Although environmentalists believe lynxes live in the area, 20 years of study failed to turn up a single lynx anywhere in the state. People need to make the connection between radicals and the money given to animal-rights groups and left-wing environmental organizations, or we'll see more fires and worse by an emboldened network of ecoterrorists. BURT CAREY, EDITOR Rocky Mountain Game & Fish Marietta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1998 | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

Investigators were stumped until midweek, when something called the Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility. A fax purporting to be from the ELF said the group had sponsored what was probably history's costliest ecoterrorist strike "on behalf of the lynx," a spike-eared wildcat all but gone from the state. It went on, "This action is just a warning...For your safety and convenience, we strongly advise skiers to choose other destinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fire on the Mountain | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

...adamantly rejects. "The opposition so far is just a small dose of what's coming," warns David Bunn, a local leader of the environmental group Pesticide Watch. The most bizarre protest of all has been a letter to Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and local newspapers, sent by an ecoterrorist organization calling itself the Breeders, which claimed to be breeding and releasing its own medflies. The organization's alleged purpose: to render the medfly problem "unmanageable" and Malathion spraying "financially intolerable." Last week attorneys for the antispraying coalition filed a legal challenge against the state with the Environmental Protection Agency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medfly Madness | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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