~NEW EPISODE~ The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises. 🎙️: bit.ly/4uOg22i

Thank to Willamette Week for running, with such care, an excerpt of my book!

Dudes in ski masks cuddling fuzzy animals: a thread (Found these mostly in old animal rights zines while researching my book -- buy it! link in bio!)

Admiring Dave Foreman's incredible 1980s radical environmentalist drip

Much thank for @podcastgreenred.bsky.social for a great conversation!

Trump is removing limits on “forever chemicals,” opening our national parks for logging and drilling, and stripping the EPA for parts. If that makes you want to burn something down (figuratively), this is the book for you. Huge thanks to @nytimesbooks for recommending FITN!

It’s been largely forgotten but, in the 1970s, basically EVERYONE was an environmentalist, Democrat and Republican. Starting in the 1960s, Americans became aware we were facing a dire ecological crisis. Smog in L.A. was so bad, visibility sometimes dropped down to almost zero.

Photo I found in court documents while researching my book on the Earth Liberation Front: A downed 1,000,000-volt electrical tower just southeast of Bend, Oregon, which the ELF successfully pulled down on the night December 30, 2000, by unscrewing its guy wires.

On October 19, 1998, the Earth Liberation Front burned down the Two Elk Lodge, a $20 million ski resort in Vail, Colorado. This required torching not just one structure but ELEVEN structures, including a ski lift. It was the most expensive act of eco-sabotage in U.S. history.

On March 30, 2001, members of the Earth Liberation Front set fire to 35 brand new SUVs at the Joe Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon, as a protest against global warming. Photo © Paul Carter of the Eugene Register Guard, via Imagn Images.

In the days leading up to my book dropping, I'm posting some rare Earth Liberation Front-related photos. This is the Superior Lumber Company, in Glendale, Oregon, which the ELF torched on January 2, 2001. In a communique, they referred to Superior as "a typical earth raper."

Hey all, just sharing the beautiful cover for my forthcoming book, "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage," coming out June 23, 2026, from Viking! Pre-orders available!