Wild Earth 9, no. 2

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 9, no. 2

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 9, no. 2 (Summer 1999). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6091.

Issue Theme: Carnivore Ecology and Recovery

This issue includes:

  • Yellowstone Grizzlies Delisting Dilemma by Todd Wilkinson
  • Wolves for Oregon: Myths and Reality by George Wuerthner
  • Carnivores in the Caprock: Rewilding the High Plains of Texas by Andrew Kroll and Dwight Barry
  • The Role of Top Carnivores in Regulating Terrestrial Ecosystems by John Terborgh, James Estes, Paul Paquet, Katherine Ralls, Diane Boyd-Heger, Brian Miller, and Reed Noss
  • Learn from the Burn: Research Natural Areas for Habitat and Science by Timothy lngalsbee
  • State of the Ecosystem Reports: A Tool for Wildlands Advocacy
    by Andrew Holdsworth, John Talberth, and Bryan Bird

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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, and Howie Wolke. The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the United States. New York: Harmony Books, 1992.
  • Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
  • Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.