This issue of Earth First! focuses in the NO-GO ROAD movement, in which people assemble to blockade roads in order to stop road constructions through wilderness areas in the US.
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Dave Foreman begins this EF! issue’s editorial by discussing to the arrest of Earth First! members Neil Cobb and Bob Seeley at the Salt Creek Wilderness, New Mexico.
In this issue of Earth First! stories about the road construction in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness area in Oregon continue. A special section in this issue discusses Earth First! and non-violence in light of the behavior of some EF! members during the Bald Mountain Road blockade.
Should Trees Have Standing? continues to serve as the definitive statement as to why trees, oceans, animals, and the environment as a whole should be bestowed with legal rights.
Latin America’s first national park derived from private and public ideas and became a template for regional conservation.
This Arcadia article by environmental historian Wilko von Hardenberg shows how after almost a century on the brink of extinction, bears are once again roaming the eastern Italian Alps.
In 1932, the Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin enacts policies in Ukraine that seek to decimate nationalist aspirations for independence and force collectivization on the peasantry. These measures amplified into a grand famine and led to the death of an estimated 3.5 million people.
In this issue, Dave Foreman expresses his amazement at the positive responses to EF! and Howie Wolke discusses how to preserve real wilderness.
In January 1990, four oil spills occured in New York’s Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull waterways, popularizing the heavily traversed channel.
After decades of precious metal recovery and recycling on the Evor-Phillips Leasing site, the EPA tested and found high levels of volatile organic compounds and heavy metals in the site’s soil, surface water, and groundwater, including the nearby marsh and wetlands.