Bureau of Land Management Director under the Biden junta and an ecoterrorist who demanded (in her graduate thesis) Americans undergo population control in the name of environmental stewardship. She lied under oath in her nomination hearing about her involvement in an eco-terror group, Earth First, who spiked trees with the deliberate intent to cause death or serious physical harm to logging personnel in order to protect trees being legally cut down.
According to the Daily Caller, Stone-Manning featured a shirtless American baby in an ad for her graduate thesis declaring the child an “environmental hazard.” A photo of Manning’s advertisement published in the Caller is shown below:
“Can you spot the environmental hazard in this photo?” the ad’s headline asked. “That’s right, it’s the cute baby. Americans believe that overpopulation is only a problem somewhere else in the world. But it’s a problem here too.”
Stone-Manning’s ad continues, urging Americans adopt a Chinese-style limited child policy. “The earth is only so big, and we can tap into it only so often. In America, we tap in often and hard,” Stone-Manning wrote. “When we overpopulate, the earth notices it more. Stop at two. It could be the best thing you do for the planet.”
Her thesis also included a script for a television ad set in a “Yuppie” home focused on a woman contemplating a third child over a cup of coffee. “I know it would be my third baby, but there’s not a population problem here like in Africa or India… and besides, smart people like Bob and me should be the people having kids,” the script reads. The ad is then written to cut to a montage of polluted scenes as a voiceover raises hysteria over too many children.
“Do the truly smart thing, stop at one or two kids,” the ad finishes.
“The point is a simple one,” Stone-Manning explained in her thesis. “Harshly, the ads say that the earth can’t afford Americans. More softly, they ask people to think about how their family planning choices affect the planet.”
Other ads raised issue with overgrazing on public lands. “It is overgrazed. Most likely, the grasses won’t grow back, because the topsoil took flight,” Stone-Manning wrote. “Worse still, the government encourages this destruction. It charges ranchers under $2 a month to graze each cow and its calf on public land — your land.” Stone-Manning now oversees 155 million acres of grazing land for livestock nationwide, about the size of Arizona and New Mexico.
Eco-terrorist and Attempted Murderer
In 1993, Biden’s nominee accepted legal immunity in exchange for testimony that she aided in a 1989 tree-spiking incident, wherein left-wing environmental terrorists jam metal spikes into trees which turn into projectiles when processed for logging. Stone-Manning testified she retyped and sent an anonymous letter to the U.S. Forest Service for her friend and former roommate, John T. Blount, warning 500 pounds of “spikes measuring 8 to 10 inches in length” were driven into trees of Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest targeted for harvest. “P.S., You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt,” the letter finished, a copy of which was obtained by The Federalist.
Tree-spiking is the hammering of a nail or metal rod into a tree trunk, with the deliberate intent to cause death or serious physical harm to logging personnel. When the blade hits the spike, the spike fragments like shrapnel. Stone-Manning admitted to writing the letter. The immunity deal required Stone-Manning to rat out her fellow terrorists and co-conspirators. Investigators testified Stone-Manning was involved in planning the tree-spiking incident in the Clearwater National Forest in 1989.[158] Stone-Manning lied on her Senate questionnaire denying that she had never been involved in, or under criminal investigation for, tree-spiking. Sen. John Risch said at Stone-Manning’s confirmation hearing:
She perjured herself in two ways. One is when she denied having been investigated as the record is absolutely clear she was investigated. And the second, when she said she did not participate in this tree spiking. This was one of the questions that was asked, ‘Did you have personal knowledge of, participate in, or in any way directly or indirectly, support activities associated with the spiking of trees in any forest during your lifetime?’ “No.” Under oath, “no”, “no.” Under oath.
You know, I’ve prosecuted, I don’t know how many cases. This, for a prosecutor, is shooting fish in a barrel. She shouldn’t be in front of this committee for confirmation to a major position in this administration. She should be in front of a jury explaining to them why she committed perjury, and why she lied to Congress.
My friends, if you want to confirm her, you absolutely can. But believe me, this stain on this administration will last for the next three and a half years. If the Biden administration wants to have the face and the character of their administration represented by this individual, this attempted murderer, this perjuror, this liar, this conspirator if that’s what you want in the administration and that’s what you want for the face of the administration, here’s your person. Confirm her.
Circumstances of the investigation into the Idaho tree-spiking case show Stone-Manning had been a primary subject which contradicts her testimony to Senate lawmakers that she had never been the target of a federal investigation. Stone-Manning had even complained to the local press several decades ago about being investigated.
“It was degrading,” she told the local press. “It changed my awareness of the power of the government. Yes, this is happening to me and not someone in Panama. And yes, the government does do bad things sometimes.”
President Barack Obama’s first BLM Director Bob Abbey however, has called for Stone-Manning’s nomination to be pulled, labeling the tree-spiking incident disqualifying. “BLM needs a really strong leader,” Abbey told the Daily Montanan. “To put someone in that position that has this type of resume will just bring needless controversy that is not good for the agency or for the public lands.”
Stone-Manning’s nomination saw robust opposition from conservatives in Congress and outside the halls, with Adam Brandon, president of conservative and libertarian advocacy group FreedomWorks, saying it “should come as no surprise” Biden’s nominee holds her views “seeing as she collaborated with eco-terrorist groups with ties to Ted Kaczynski.”
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