Wild Earth 6, no. 4

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 6, no. 4

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.


Davis, John, ed., Wild Earth 6, no. 4 (Winter 1996/97). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5700.

Issue Theme: Opposing Wilderness Deconstruction

This issue includes:

  • Nature as Seen from Kitkitdizze Is no “Social Construction” by Gary Snyder 
  • All Kinds of Wilderness Foes by Dave Foreman
  • Wilderness Redux by Donald Waller
  • Reinventing Nature? The End of Wilderness? by George Sessions
  • Green Confusion by Sarah Vonhof
  • Conservation Biologists Challenge Traditional Nature Protection Organizations by Michael McCloskey
  • An Annotated Table of Contents of “The Great New Wilderness Debate” by Michael Nelson

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Further readings: 
  • 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.
  • Butler, Tom, ed. Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
  • Taylor, Bron. “The Tributaries of Radical Environmentalism.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism 2, no. 1 (2008): 27-61.