Vail Resort Arson, October 1998 October 19,1998: arson destroyed and damaged $12 million worth of chairlifts and mountain buildings, in the name of the lynx Was a calculated attack because it was the same day a controversial construction project was about to begin into old growth forest on federally owned land Email received days later from ELF claiming credit for the fire to protect a rare species whose habitat was disappearing All of the buildings destroyed have been rebuilt.
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