Matthew Wolfe
@matthew-wolfe.bsky.social
Author of "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and A Secret History of Eco-Sabotage," coming June 23 from Viking
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Tonight the Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social will be hosting a fascinating conversation with author Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his book, "Fires in the Night"@vikingbooks.bsky.social
Copies will be available for purchase starting at 5:30pm.
Copies will be available for purchase starting at 5:30pm.
September 16, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Tonight the Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social will be hosting a fascinating conversation with author Matthew Wolfe @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his book, "Fires in the Night"@vikingbooks.bsky.social
Copies will be available for purchase starting at 5:30pm.
Copies will be available for purchase starting at 5:30pm.
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Join IPK and NYU Journalism on September 16 for a talk with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social. He will discuss his new book, Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage with @jerolmack.bsky.social and @alexvitale.bsky.social.
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ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
September 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Join IPK and NYU Journalism on September 16 for a talk with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social. He will discuss his new book, Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage with @jerolmack.bsky.social and @alexvitale.bsky.social.
ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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New review on EcoLit Books: @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social's amazing FIRES IN THE NIGHT. Check it out here: ecolitbooks.com/2026/08/06/b...
Book Review: Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe : EcoLit Books
Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage is a compelling work of narrative nonfiction, meticulously researched and written with the...
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August 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
New review on EcoLit Books: @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social's amazing FIRES IN THE NIGHT. Check it out here: ecolitbooks.com/2026/08/06/b...
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~E342: Elves Against the Machine~
An interview with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
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An interview with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
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E342: Elves Against the Machine w/ Matthew Wolfe | This Wreckage
An interview with Matthew Wolfe about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabo
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July 22, 2026 at 4:38 PM
~E342: Elves Against the Machine~
An interview with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...
An interview with @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about his new book Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage
www.patreon.com/thiswreckage...
Hugely thoughtful review of my book on eco-saboteurs The Earth Liberation Front from @adamfederman.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com zooming in on its central moral conundrum: at what point is it OK to break the laws of a system that is already horribly broken?
newrepublic.com/article/2130...
newrepublic.com/article/2130...
July 15, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Hugely thoughtful review of my book on eco-saboteurs The Earth Liberation Front from @adamfederman.bsky.social in @newrepublic.com zooming in on its central moral conundrum: at what point is it OK to break the laws of a system that is already horribly broken?
newrepublic.com/article/2130...
newrepublic.com/article/2130...
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How Earth Liberation Front was labeled the most dangerous terrorist organization in the United States (even though they never actually hurt anyone).
Elves Against Capitalism: How the Earth Liberation Front Came to America
The fires began with a gentle Midwestern boy who loved animals. Kevin Tubbs grew up in a comfortable suburb outside Omaha, Nebraska, in a canary-yellow ranch house filled with dogs. Tubbs’s mother,…
buff.ly
July 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
How Earth Liberation Front was labeled the most dangerous terrorist organization in the United States (even though they never actually hurt anyone).
Much thanks to @redpeppermag.bsky.social and Gareth Thompson for their very kind review of my book on the Earth Liberation Front, “Fires in the Night,” which he dubs a “nail-biting page-turner” www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Fires in the Night - review - Red Pepper
In his review of Fires in the Night by Matthew Wolfe, Gareth Thompson reviews a nail-biting history of environmentalist direct action
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July 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Much thanks to @redpeppermag.bsky.social and Gareth Thompson for their very kind review of my book on the Earth Liberation Front, “Fires in the Night,” which he dubs a “nail-biting page-turner” www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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What Eugene’s ’90s-era eco-sabotage movement means today: Q&A with author of new book By Ashli Blow
What Eugene's ’90s-era eco-sabotage movement means today: Q&A with author of new book
“Fires in the Night” digs into the radical environmental movement ELF. Environmental and public health correspondent Ashli Blow discusses the group’s legacy with the book's author, Matthew Wolfe.
lookouteugene-springfield.com
July 3, 2026 at 2:52 PM
What Eugene’s ’90s-era eco-sabotage movement means today: Q&A with author of new book By Ashli Blow
Thanks so much to Seattle’s NPR affiliate @kuow.org for having me on to talk about the secret history of the Earth Liberation Front and my new book “Fires In The Night” from @vikingbooks.bsky.social!
www.kuow.org/stories/the-...
www.kuow.org/stories/the-...
The secret history of the Earth Liberation Front
Arson by the ELF was the butt of a joke on "The West Wing." The real story is far more complicated.
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July 2, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Thanks so much to Seattle’s NPR affiliate @kuow.org for having me on to talk about the secret history of the Earth Liberation Front and my new book “Fires In The Night” from @vikingbooks.bsky.social!
www.kuow.org/stories/the-...
www.kuow.org/stories/the-...
Thanks to @eugeneweekly.com for a terrific interview about my new book, “Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage.”
Burning Activism eugeneweekly.com/2026/06/25/b...
Burning Activism eugeneweekly.com/2026/06/25/b...
Burning Activism
Burning the Forest Service ranger stations in Oakridge and Detroit, torching a ski resort, releasing wild horses, sabotaging powerlines and burning SUVs at what was a Joe Romania’s dealership on…
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June 25, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Thanks to @eugeneweekly.com for a terrific interview about my new book, “Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage.”
Burning Activism eugeneweekly.com/2026/06/25/b...
Burning Activism eugeneweekly.com/2026/06/25/b...
Let's do this!
Pacific Northwest mini-tour for my new true crime/radical politics book "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and A Secret History of Eco-Sabotage"!
We're hitting @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Eugene, Corvallis!
Pacific Northwest mini-tour for my new true crime/radical politics book "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and A Secret History of Eco-Sabotage"!
We're hitting @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Eugene, Corvallis!
June 24, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Let's do this!
Pacific Northwest mini-tour for my new true crime/radical politics book "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and A Secret History of Eco-Sabotage"!
We're hitting @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Eugene, Corvallis!
Pacific Northwest mini-tour for my new true crime/radical politics book "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and A Secret History of Eco-Sabotage"!
We're hitting @powells.bsky.social in Portland, Seattle, Olympia, Eugene, Corvallis!
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Just got my copy of “Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage” by @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social.
Highly recommend it!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725669...
Highly recommend it!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725669...
June 23, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Just got my copy of “Fires in the Night: The Earth Liberation Front, the FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage” by @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social.
Highly recommend it!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725669...
Highly recommend it!
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725669...
If you want to know what an undercover cop looks like, here’s a good example.
While researching my book on the ELF, I interviewed detective Greg Harvey, who spent years infiltrating the environmental movement.
His disguise, pictured on the right, included a wig from a Halloween costume of Jesus.
While researching my book on the ELF, I interviewed detective Greg Harvey, who spent years infiltrating the environmental movement.
His disguise, pictured on the right, included a wig from a Halloween costume of Jesus.
June 11, 2026 at 1:50 PM
If you want to know what an undercover cop looks like, here’s a good example.
While researching my book on the ELF, I interviewed detective Greg Harvey, who spent years infiltrating the environmental movement.
His disguise, pictured on the right, included a wig from a Halloween costume of Jesus.
While researching my book on the ELF, I interviewed detective Greg Harvey, who spent years infiltrating the environmental movement.
His disguise, pictured on the right, included a wig from a Halloween costume of Jesus.
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~NEW EPISODE~
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front
We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises.
🎙️: bit.ly/4uOg22i
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front
We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises.
🎙️: bit.ly/4uOg22i
June 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM
~NEW EPISODE~
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front
We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises.
🎙️: bit.ly/4uOg22i
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front
We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises.
🎙️: bit.ly/4uOg22i
Thank to Willamette Week for running, with such care, an excerpt of my book!
‘Property destruction, they would explain, was a way of levying a fine on desecrating nature—of, in effect, removing a financial incentive from killing the planet. And arson was merely the simplest, cheapest method of extracting this tax.’
A New Book Revisits the Oregon Saboteurs Who Set Fires to Save the Planet
Matthew Wolfe
www.wweek.com
June 3, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Thank to Willamette Week for running, with such care, an excerpt of my book!
Dudes in ski masks cuddling fuzzy animals: a thread
(Found these mostly in old animal rights zines while researching my book -- buy it! link in bio!)
(Found these mostly in old animal rights zines while researching my book -- buy it! link in bio!)
June 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Dudes in ski masks cuddling fuzzy animals: a thread
(Found these mostly in old animal rights zines while researching my book -- buy it! link in bio!)
(Found these mostly in old animal rights zines while researching my book -- buy it! link in bio!)
Admiring Dave Foreman's incredible 1980s radical environmentalist drip
June 2, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Admiring Dave Foreman's incredible 1980s radical environmentalist drip
Much thank for @podcastgreenred.bsky.social for a great conversation!
~NEW EPISODE~
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front
We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises.
www.patreon.com/posts/rise-a...
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front
We talk with author and journalist @matthew-wolfe.bsky.social about the origins of the ELF and the current reassessment of them amidst today’s climate and political crises.
www.patreon.com/posts/rise-a...
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front w/ author Matthew Wolfe | Green and Red: Media for Scrappy Radicals
The Rise and Fall of the Earth Liberation Front w/ author Matthew Wolfe by Green and Red: Media for Scrappy Radicals on Patreon. Join Green and Red: Media for Scrappy Radicals 's community for exclus...
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June 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Much thank for @podcastgreenred.bsky.social for a great conversation!
Trump is removing limits on “forever chemicals,” opening our national parks for logging and drilling, and stripping the EPA for parts.
If that makes you want to burn something down (figuratively), this is the book for you.
Huge thanks to @nytimesbooks for recommending FITN!
If that makes you want to burn something down (figuratively), this is the book for you.
Huge thanks to @nytimesbooks for recommending FITN!
June 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Trump is removing limits on “forever chemicals,” opening our national parks for logging and drilling, and stripping the EPA for parts.
If that makes you want to burn something down (figuratively), this is the book for you.
Huge thanks to @nytimesbooks for recommending FITN!
If that makes you want to burn something down (figuratively), this is the book for you.
Huge thanks to @nytimesbooks for recommending FITN!
It’s been largely forgotten but, in the 1970s, basically EVERYONE was an environmentalist, Democrat and Republican.
Starting in the 1960s, Americans became aware we were facing a dire ecological crisis. Smog in L.A. was so bad, visibility sometimes dropped down to almost zero.
Starting in the 1960s, Americans became aware we were facing a dire ecological crisis. Smog in L.A. was so bad, visibility sometimes dropped down to almost zero.
June 1, 2026 at 2:55 PM
It’s been largely forgotten but, in the 1970s, basically EVERYONE was an environmentalist, Democrat and Republican.
Starting in the 1960s, Americans became aware we were facing a dire ecological crisis. Smog in L.A. was so bad, visibility sometimes dropped down to almost zero.
Starting in the 1960s, Americans became aware we were facing a dire ecological crisis. Smog in L.A. was so bad, visibility sometimes dropped down to almost zero.
Photo I found in court documents while researching my book on the Earth Liberation Front:
A downed 1,000,000-volt electrical tower just southeast of Bend, Oregon, which the ELF successfully pulled down on the night December 30, 2000, by unscrewing its guy wires.
A downed 1,000,000-volt electrical tower just southeast of Bend, Oregon, which the ELF successfully pulled down on the night December 30, 2000, by unscrewing its guy wires.
May 30, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Photo I found in court documents while researching my book on the Earth Liberation Front:
A downed 1,000,000-volt electrical tower just southeast of Bend, Oregon, which the ELF successfully pulled down on the night December 30, 2000, by unscrewing its guy wires.
A downed 1,000,000-volt electrical tower just southeast of Bend, Oregon, which the ELF successfully pulled down on the night December 30, 2000, by unscrewing its guy wires.
On October 19, 1998, the Earth Liberation Front burned down the Two Elk Lodge, a $20 million ski resort in Vail, Colorado. This required torching not just one structure but ELEVEN structures, including a ski lift. It was the most expensive act of eco-sabotage in U.S. history.
May 29, 2026 at 12:04 PM
On October 19, 1998, the Earth Liberation Front burned down the Two Elk Lodge, a $20 million ski resort in Vail, Colorado. This required torching not just one structure but ELEVEN structures, including a ski lift. It was the most expensive act of eco-sabotage in U.S. history.
On March 30, 2001, members of the Earth Liberation Front set fire to 35 brand new SUVs at the Joe Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon, as a protest against global warming.
Photo © Paul Carter of the Eugene Register Guard, via Imagn Images.
Photo © Paul Carter of the Eugene Register Guard, via Imagn Images.
May 28, 2026 at 1:44 PM
On March 30, 2001, members of the Earth Liberation Front set fire to 35 brand new SUVs at the Joe Romania Chevrolet dealership in Eugene, Oregon, as a protest against global warming.
Photo © Paul Carter of the Eugene Register Guard, via Imagn Images.
Photo © Paul Carter of the Eugene Register Guard, via Imagn Images.
In the days leading up to my book dropping, I'm posting some rare Earth Liberation Front-related photos.
This is the Superior Lumber Company, in Glendale, Oregon, which the ELF torched on January 2, 2001.
In a communique, they referred to Superior as "a typical earth raper."
This is the Superior Lumber Company, in Glendale, Oregon, which the ELF torched on January 2, 2001.
In a communique, they referred to Superior as "a typical earth raper."
May 27, 2026 at 1:51 PM
In the days leading up to my book dropping, I'm posting some rare Earth Liberation Front-related photos.
This is the Superior Lumber Company, in Glendale, Oregon, which the ELF torched on January 2, 2001.
In a communique, they referred to Superior as "a typical earth raper."
This is the Superior Lumber Company, in Glendale, Oregon, which the ELF torched on January 2, 2001.
In a communique, they referred to Superior as "a typical earth raper."
Hey all, just sharing the beautiful cover for my forthcoming book, "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage," coming out June 23, 2026, from Viking! Pre-orders available!
May 26, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Hey all, just sharing the beautiful cover for my forthcoming book, "Fires In The Night: The Earth Liberation Front, The FBI, and a Secret History of Eco-Sabotage," coming out June 23, 2026, from Viking! Pre-orders available!