Wild Earth 8, no. 1

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 8, no. 1

Intended as yet another instrument for attacking anthropocentric ideologies and voracious agricultural/industrial civilizations, the journal Wild Earth was published by the Earth First! movement between 1991–2004.


Butler, Tom, ed., Wild Earth 8, no. 1 (Spring 1998). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6086.

This issue includes:

  • The Splendor of the Eastern Forest by Robert Leverett
  • The Archipelago Idea by Bill Willers
  • The Exotic Species Problem and Freshwater Conservation by Anthony Ricciardi
  • Boundary Waters Wilderness Attacked in Congress by Kevin Proescholdt
  • Earth in the Balance Sheet by Mitch Friedman
  • Successfully Using Ballot Measures by Sally Cross and Andy Kerr
  • Direct Democracy in Defense of Nature by Bill Marlett

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Further readings: 
  • Butler, Tom, ed. Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
  • Foreman, Dave. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.
  • Foreman, Dave, and Howie Wolke. The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States. New York: Harmony Books, 1992.