Oddly, we probably agree on environmental preservation, at least the basic principals of it. My Dad and I are super proactive about preserving old growth trees, and absolute cleanliness of rivers and forests. But there are plenty of people who lump ranchers together with oil companies and strip mining firms as ecological villains.
Our family is somewhat atypical. But a car full of hippies from Santa Fe who get lost looking for the pot dispensary might not know that. So we take sensible precautions to protect ourselves and our property.
It is important to read their own accounts of what motivates members of groups like Earth First!. Like many movements, the bleeding edge extremists are not always very rational people. What that means for us, is that we cannot always anticipate their actions.
