In California, a thirty-year-old environmental activist has been sentenced to nearly twenty years in prison after being convicted of planning to disrupt government and commercial installations. Eric McDavid was accused of plotting to sabotage three sites in California: the US Forest Service genetics lab in Placerville, the Nimbus Dam and a fish hatchery in Rancho Cordova. Supporters of McDavid have accused the FBI of entrapment. A key figure in the alleged plot was a Florida college student who was recruited by the FBI to penetrate the protest movement. McDavid’s lawyers said the conspiracy would have never developed if not for the actions of the informant who helped bring the other activists together.