In this issue of Earth First! George Wuerthner and Reed Noss present designs for an ecosystem preserve in Montana and a vast forest wilderness in Ohio. Tom Stoddard contributes an essay on sacred cows in Ethiopia, Andrew Bard Schmookler questions whether anarchy should be a goal within the environmental movement, and Kevin Proescholdt discusses acid rain.
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In this issue the efforts to protect the Northwest in Alaska and British Columbia are featured, Tom Stoddard, George Wuerthner, and Stephanie Mills contribute provocative essays, and Christoph Manes problematizes the question of technology.
In this issue of Earth First! Mike Roselle and Randy Hayes discuss their work on rainforests, Ron Huber describes the events occurring near Pyramid Creek in Oregon, and America’s leading environmental journalist, Michael Frome, is featured.
The journal Earth First! celebrates its fifth anniversary and Dave Foreman reflects on the past five years in this issue’s editorial.
In this issue of Earth First! Ron Huber gives an update on the situation on the tree sitters attacked by a giant crane in Millennium Grove. Dave Foreman discusses the conservationists’ lack of vision, Arne Naess describes various lifestyle characteristics of the deep ecology movement in Scandinavia, and much more.
The Mafia Island Marine Park (MIMP) off the southeast coast of Tanzania is officially established by a resolution of the Tanzanian National Assembly. Its attempt at conserving marine resources creates problems for locals who rely on marine ecosystems for income.
The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea resulted from the third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS III) between 1973 and 1982 and reforms the Law of the Sea Treaty, which formally outlines modern international policy regarding the oceans and marine resources.
In 1971, the United Nations initiates the ratification of the Seabed Arms Control Treaty, which protects the world’s seabeds from the introduction of nuclear weapons and waste.
Matthew Kelly describes how national parks were a component of the social democratic transformation of post-war Britain, which quickly became a focus for anxiety about the rise of mass car ownership and agricultural intensification.
This issue of Earth First! discusses the rehabilitation of wilderness and visionary proposals for big wilderness.