ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1970 Marc Gaede, a Marine Corps veteran, was working as a photo curator at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. One Sunday morning, seething with anger over federal efforts to build a strip mine on Navaho and Hopi land near the Utah border, Gaede drove out to the rail line under construction between Lake Powell and Black Mesa. In Tucson another group calling itself "Eco Raiders" was exercising its creative capacity for chaos against real estate developers who were busy "Los Angelesizing" the Southwest. Carrying a two-person saw with them wherever they went, they were always looking for targets of opportunity. Soon the Eco Raiders had Tucson lawmen foaming at the mouth. The sheriff's department assigned nine men fulltime to a newly created Special Problems Task Force and finally caught a guy named Chris Morrison, who ratted on his comrades, putting them out of business.
