By Ashley Oliver
https://www.breitbart.com/author/ashley-oliver/
President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requested last year that the University of Montana restrict access to her controversial master’s thesis, which advocated for the creation of population control propaganda for environmental reasons.
The university’s digital initiatives librarian confirmed to Breitbart News on Friday that the embattled nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, asked the school in June 2020 to limit access to the thesis, titled Into the heart of the beast | A case for environmental advertising, which Stone-Manning authored in 1992 for her master’s degree in Environmental Studies.
The restricted thesis itself made headlines on June 23, 2021, after the Daily Caller obtained a copy of it, which showed Stone-Manning advocating for U.S. population control propaganda through a series of advertisements intended to “tug at the root of many of our environmental horrors, overpopulation.”
The thesis on “environmental advertising” highlighted population control propaganda Stone-Manning created as a means to alleviate perceived stresses to the environment caused by humans. Stone-Manning wrote that her movement “desperately needs to use advertising’s ubiquitous power if it is to capture mainstream America.”
One advertisement stated, “When we have children, the planet feels it more. Do the truly smart thing. Stop at one or two kids,” while another read, “Stop at two. It could be the best thing you do for the planet.” The latter advertisement, which identified “overpopulation” as a “problem” in America, featured a photo of a child with the caption, “Can you find the environmental hazard in this photo?”
Breitbart News reached out to the University of Montana to obtain a copy of Stone-Manning’s thesis and discover why this document, in which the Biden nominee called a human child an “environmental hazard,” was restricted.
The university librarian sent an email back stating, “I am not able to provide you with a copy of this thesis because in June 2020 the author requested that we restrict access to current University of Montana campus members only.”
Internet archives show Stone-Manning’s thesis access page was updated on June 9, 2020, but that the thesis remained accessible to the public on that day. The next day that the Internet archive picked up activity on the thesis page does not come again until June 24, 2021 — the day after the Daily Caller report was published — at which point the page appeared with a new message on the righthand side of it stating, “This record is only available to users affiliated with the University of Montana.”
Asked about this discrepancy, the librarian said her “notes indicate that access was restricted on June 11, 2020.”
Amid her nomination, Stone-Manning has come under intense scrutiny over how she spent her graduate school days in Missoula, Montana, which was a hub for environmental activism in the 1980s and 1990s. During her time there, Stone-Manning belonged to the extremist group Earth First!, members of which committed acts of ecoterrorism such as tree spiking and property destruction. Stone-Manning herself became involved in a tree spiking case at the time.
https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2021/07/09/cover-up-bidens-ecoterrorist-linked-nominee-locked-access-to-her-masters-thesis-advocating-anti-child-population-control-propaganda/