Editing Earth First! (section)

== Sabotage ==
=== Fairfield Snowbowl Ski Resort ===
Earth First member Mark Davis was sentenced in Federal court to six years in prison for malicious destruction of property at the [[Arizona Snowbowl|Fairfield Snowbowl Ski Resort]] near [[Flagstaff, Arizona]], in concert with David Foreman, Ilse Asplund, Margaret Millett, and Mark Baker.<ref name=NYT080891>{{cite news |title=Man Gets 6 Years in Plot to Damage A-Plants |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/08/us/man-gets-6-years-in-plot-to-damage-a-plants.html |work=The New York Times |date=September 8, 1991 |access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref> Davis had been charged with "using a torch to cut around the base of the top pylon of the main chair lift at Snowbowl on October 25, 1988."<ref name=AP122190>{{cite news |title=JUDGE REJECTS SEPARATE TRIAL FOR EARTH FIRST 3/8 CO-FOUNDER |url=https://apnews.com/9621c2cd6ffffb36264f912be1ddfdb4 |work=Associated Press News |date=December 21, 1990 |access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref>

The resort attack, sabotage at Energy Fuels' Canyon uranium mine (6 miles southeast of [[Tusayan, Arizona]]), and attempting to cut down power-line towers leading to the [[Central Arizona Project]] aqueduct, were characterized as dress rehearsals for attacks on nuclear plants.<ref name=NYT080891/>

=== Telluride Ski Resort ===
On August 10, 1991, vandals identifying themselves as members of Earth First forced the closing of the [[Telluride Ski Resort]] in [[Mountain Village, Colorado]] using a chemical to write messages on 11 greens, such as "Earth First!", "Hayduke lives" and "Ron you pig".<ref name="NYT081191">{{cite news|date=August 11, 1991|title=Vandals Force Closing of New Golf Course|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/11/us/vandals-force-closing-of-new-golf-course.html|access-date=June 16, 2013}}</ref> In relation to the incident, the ''[[Telluride Daily Planet|Telluride Times Journal]]'' received a letter signed "Earth First" stating that the ski lift had been sabotaged with a welding gas applied to the lift cable that weakens the metal.<ref name="NYT081191" />

=== Aspen Pipeline Sabotage ===
A gas pipeline in Aspen Colorado was sabotaged turning off heat to 3,500 people on December 29, 2020. The perpetrators wrote "Earth First!" on the pipeline.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-12-29|title=FBI aids in investigation of gas pipeline sabotage that turned heat off in Aspen|url=https://coloradosun.com/2020/12/28/aspen-gas-pipeline-ecoterrorism-sabotage/|access-date=2021-04-17|website=The Colorado Sun|language=en}}</ref>