Wild Earth 9, no. 3

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 9, no. 3

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. 3 (Fall 1999). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6092.

Issue Theme: Celebrating Leopold’s Legacy

This issue includes:

  • Aldo Leopold: On the Path toward Unity of Knowledge by Nina Leopold Bradley
  • Earth Stories by David Ehrenfeld
  • Forest Green: How Private Money Saved Loomis Forest Wildlands by Mitch Friedman
  • The Myth of the Humanized Landscape: An Example from Yosemite National Park by Thomas Vale
  • Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation Policy in Papua New Guinea by William Thomas
  • The End of the Earth: Threats to the Yamal Region’s Cultural and Biological Diversity by Bruce Forbes
  • Driving Sprawl—Population Growth & Consumption by Annie Faulkner

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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.
  • Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac. Illustrated edition. Introduction by Kenneth Brower and photographs by Michael Sewell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • Oelschlaeger, Max. The Idea of Wilderness: From Prehistory to the Age of Ecology. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
  • Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.