28 Jul 2021 Republican senators leading the charge against Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), introduced a bill on Wednesday to combat tree spiking after new information surfaced about Stone-Manning’s involvement in a tree spiking plot 30 years ago. Energy and Natural Resources Committee ranking member Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) proposed the Tree Spiking Mitigation Act to help reduce the dangers of spiked trees. Tree spiking is both a form of sabotage and an act of ecoterrorism in which metal spikes are hammered into trees to prevent them from being harvested. Tree spikes, especially in the 1980s and 1990s, destroyed expensive logging equipment and can injure or kill loggers or millworkers processing the spiked trees.