The Earth Liberation Front later issues a communique saying it doused an office with gasoline and set it ablaze because the university financed development of genetically modified crops. The Earth Liberation Front later issues a communique saying it torched the home because it was in the Lake Monroe Watershed, which provides drinking water to the city of Bloomington. Ind. At least six pieces of logging and heavy construction equipment are sabotaged and a trailer full of wood chips is set ablaze at a road construction site just outside the city. Wis. Vandals hack down thousands of experimental trees, mostly poplars, and spray-paint vehicles at a U.S. Forest Service research station. The Earth Liberation Front claims the attack was against bioengineering, although researchers say the trees were bred naturally to grow faster and resist diseases.
Investigators say a flammable liquid was poured on the building and ignited.
The arson was a reminder, according to the Earth Liberation Front communique, that it would not sit quietly as politicians pushed for plans to extend an interstate highway. Ind. Vandals find four pieces of heavy logging equipment in the Martin State Forest and cut hoses, slash seats, destroy gauges and pour sand in the engines, fuel tanks and radiators. Colo. Arson hits one of the first luxury homes going up in a new subdivision. The Boulder ELF burned the Legend Ridge mansion on Nov. 27th. The underground group explains in a follow-up communique that the arson was driven by defeat of a statewide ballot measure to control growth.