Bombs and Biodiversity: A Case Study of Military Environmentalism in Australia
The history of Puckapunyal Military Training Area illustrates how war and the environment interact in sometimes unexpected ways.
The history of Puckapunyal Military Training Area illustrates how war and the environment interact in sometimes unexpected ways.
This special Ecotopia Earth First! Special Baby Treesus issue sets forth campaigns named after seasons: Redwood Summer, Corporate Fall, and Nuclear Winter. It focuses on the Corporate Fall protests and other cases that required EF! demonstrations on the problem of “logging to infinity.” Ecotopia announces its secession from the United States. The issue also includes letters to the editor, a quiz, and a call for donations.
Beschädigte Vegetation und sterbender Wald traces the history of the environmental problem of air pollution and its damaging effects on forests in Germany.
This Ecotopia Earth First! newsletter includes Judi Bari’s call for action in the endangered Headwaters Forest, the EF! blockade of MAXXAM redwoods logging in Redway, and helicopter logging in Albion. The issue of tree spiking is discussed, as well as Assata Shakur’s autobiography and the harmful effects of a landfill in an Indian reservoir. Demonstrators against logging operations “confess” their trespassing “sins.”
The Forest History Society is a nonprofit library and archive for forest-related literature and photography.
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt visiting the Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina, 1913.
This Earth First! tabloid offers a citizen’s primer to the U.S. Forest Service and its negative impact on national forests, written by Howie Wolke.
This four-page newsletter describes the ongoing battles between Earth First! and the logging industry, as well as the variety of tactics they employed against the destruction Sanctuary Forest and the Albion River watershed.
The author examines the role of plantation forestry through the shift within the New Zealand State Forest Service from an orthodox state forestry model to one favoring large-scale exotic plantations.
The author examines the advent of native forest conservation in New Zealand’s Colony and the role of Thomas Potts in advocating exotic tree-planting as a response to timber shortage.