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11-03-2002, 08:00 AM
Got my new BRC mag and I thought I would share this (page 36.)
Eviro Pleads Guilty to Stealing Trees For Profit:
An enviromental extremist in Butte, Montana Has pleaded guilty in U.S. District court to stealing eight trees from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest and damaging a beaver pond in the process of dragging them to the site of his log-home building business.
Dale e Fredlund pleaded guilty to six misdemeaners before U.S. Magistrate Robert Holter in great Falls.
On tuesday, Holter fined Fredlund $725 and ordered he pay the Forest Service almost $363 restitution, sais Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lori Harper Sueck.
Fredlund was charged with taking down eight lodgepole pine trees in the Lime Kiln area near Blacktail Creek and Highland Road.
A Forest Service investigator said Fredlund used a tractor to drag the trees a half mile to his business site, skidding some of them through a beaver pond.
The investigator said Fredlund told him he took the trees for firewood because they were infected with beetles and would have dide soon anyway.
Fredlund sued the Forest Service in 1999 to stop a timber sale in the Lime Kiln area, near were he admitted taking the trees.
He and a group called highland Area Concerned Citizens clkaimed logging the area would endanger a population of cuthroat trout in Blacktail Creek and disrupt elk habitat.
The federal lawsuit was dismissed after th Forest Service dropped the sale, altough a new timber sale is being considered there.
Eviro Pleads Guilty to Stealing Trees For Profit:
An enviromental extremist in Butte, Montana Has pleaded guilty in U.S. District court to stealing eight trees from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest and damaging a beaver pond in the process of dragging them to the site of his log-home building business.
Dale e Fredlund pleaded guilty to six misdemeaners before U.S. Magistrate Robert Holter in great Falls.
On tuesday, Holter fined Fredlund $725 and ordered he pay the Forest Service almost $363 restitution, sais Assistant U.S. Attorney, Lori Harper Sueck.
Fredlund was charged with taking down eight lodgepole pine trees in the Lime Kiln area near Blacktail Creek and Highland Road.
A Forest Service investigator said Fredlund used a tractor to drag the trees a half mile to his business site, skidding some of them through a beaver pond.
The investigator said Fredlund told him he took the trees for firewood because they were infected with beetles and would have dide soon anyway.
Fredlund sued the Forest Service in 1999 to stop a timber sale in the Lime Kiln area, near were he admitted taking the trees.
He and a group called highland Area Concerned Citizens clkaimed logging the area would endanger a population of cuthroat trout in Blacktail Creek and disrupt elk habitat.
The federal lawsuit was dismissed after th Forest Service dropped the sale, altough a new timber sale is being considered there.