Earlier that same year, Montana Senator Conrad Burns, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman and Montana Governor Mark Racicot were attacked at a public meeting and pelted with rotten bison entrails. Since July of 1998, the American Farm Bureau Federation, based in Chicago, has received at least eight bomb threats. Behind the letters and threatening phone calls is an environmental group which wants the Farm Bureau to drop its court challenge to the wolf-recovery program at Yellowstone National Park. Experts suggest the threats could be coming from the Animal Liberation Front. The targets of eco-terrorists are not just U.S. companies and property owners.
Activists move back and forth across the Canadian border.
As a direct result of environmentalists' intimidation and legal assaults, Price Waterhouse has estimated that the Canadian timber industry has lost about a billion dollars. One Canadian company has decided to speak out about the attacks. In it the company details the effect the green terrorism is having on its community and its citizens. From Mexico to Canada and throughout the United States millions of dollars of property is being destroyed. Businesses are attacked.