On 6/13/2024, Stone-Manning, appearing before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for the first time since she won confirmation in 2021, faced a rapid-fire barrage of criticism from Republicans on recent public lands and energy policy decisions that reinforced the deep partisan divide on mining, renewable energy and other uses of federal lands. She also faced fierce questioning over her involvement in tree-spiking case that nearly derailed her confirmation. Risch called out Director Stone-Manning for failing to comply with federal investigations into her involvement with tree-spiking after she falsely claimed to have never been under investigation at all.

In her written testimony, submitted to the committee as part of her confirmation proceedings three years ago, Stone-Manning said she had “never been arrested or charged and to my knowledge I have never been the target of such an investigation.” In 1989, however, Stone-Manning was the subject of an investigation into an Idaho tree-spiking ring that ultimately culminated in Stone-Manning receiving an immunity deal with prosecutors in 1993.

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