Tracy Stone-Manning, US President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), was an active accomplice in an ecoterrorism crime who knew about it "far in advance", one of the men convicted in the crime has argued.

The claim was made by John P. Blount, who spiked trees in Idaho's Clearwater National Forest in 1989 and was later sentenced to 17 months in prison.

Tree-spiking, a form of sabotage used to prevent logging, is seen by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an act of ecoterrorism and a federal crime. A process, in which a metal rod is hammered into a tree trunk, can damage or destroy expensive logging equipment and injure or kill workers.