Earth First! 2, no. 5

from Multimedia Library Collection:
Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume Two

Dustrud, Pete, et al., eds., Earth First! 2, no. 5 (1 May 1982). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6832.


This issue of Earth First! is filled with news of various environmental issues such as the planned oil rig at Little Granite Creek in northwestern Wyoming, and letters to Earth First! from avid readers who want to advance the movement. Different opinions are featured.

This is an outrage! They’ll put an oil rig in Little Granit over my dead body!

— Howie Wolke 


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Further readings: 
  • Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. New York: Lippincott, 1975.
  • Foreman, Dave. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.
  • Lee, Martha. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.