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The report contains another 61 incidents that have occurred since 1989; They include: death threats, assault and battery, property damage, and rape threats, among others. Try our The Western States Center estimates that hundreds of other, similar cases have gone unreported. “Environmentalists have new the become APPETIZERS bogey man in many western towns,” the report states, “scapegoats for eco- from nomic hardship.” denounce advocacy of clean air, land and water,” said John Lunsford, research associIe GRLoAT UN SHAG DR DISCO SNS Ea A REC S NIEtele NU SATURDAY JUNE 21 P A P. A KEG,~A x g ROCK, REGGAE& ROLL. OS epee FRE-SAT JUNE 27-28 1,LA RRY L FF FUNK HORNS & sa - ate BOBKAT BLUES FROM THE HARP eS 7 = ee uw ES = a < oO < for ioe Jammin lower level of ey 1S er Z Place AB at 497 Main Ee Street the Park City Call for Info 658-FISH 2 violence also has been directed against the families of public employees as well. According to its report, “Rising Tide of Violence,” Forest Service employees are the target of violence or intimidation on the average of once a day. Out of every five Fish & Wildlife Service refuge managers reports that his or her staff or their family have been subject to threats or harassment because of decisions related to the refuge. “The rising tide of violence against public employees is a silent epidemic that the agencies dont want to admit. These attacks should be regarded not only as assault but environmental crimes,” said Rob Perks, national field director for PEER. But most of the crimes go uninvestigated and unsolved. “There are numerous unsolved crimes including the serious injury of a public agency employee and his wife as States Center “The $7 million against a agency and What is in damage from arson directed federal resource management its employees,” Perks said. more surprising perhaps is the attitude apparently adopted by the Interior. rhetoric focuses on a climate of hate and Department. Until 1995, the BLM, Forest intolerance, where the use of violence and Service, Fish and Wildlife and Park Service intimidation become acceptable.” were very forthcoming with reports of Incidents include the November 1996 threats and attacks against employees. But sabotage of Nevada activist Grace Bukowski’s recent Freedom of Information requests and car, whose brakes failed while her teenage interviews reveal that few records are now daughter was at the wheel; and a January being kept on such incidences. 1996 death threat against Wayne Weihing, of Perks said that employees of the agencies Ketchikan, Alaska, on the day his letter to the have told PEER that the attitude now. is: editor concerning forest issues was published. A second group, the Washington D.C.The the victims of bombings, death threats, assault and arson at the hands of anti-environmental extremists. In many cases, the PEER reports says, the a result of a car bomb. Also unsolved is the “Leaders of the anti-environmental lobby have used inflammatory rhetoric - DINERS CHOICE! in effigy at a “wise use” conference in Joseph, Oregon. Don't bother to report these things. You'll only be seen as a whiner and these reports based Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) reports that in the don’t go anywhere, anyway. PEER reported that Stet last two years, employees of the US Forest Service, the US Fish & Wildlife Service, the National Park Service and the Bureau of violence and threats at the Interior Department to US Attorney General Janet Reno, Perks said. “The response is, no Land response.” @ Management have increasingly been attitude of |