Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. This issue focuses on efforts to oppose clearcutting in the Allegheny National Forest and on the discovery of endangered Indiana bats in the forest.

Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. In this issue, Rachel Martin takes over as editor. The issue focuses on the Forest Service’s opening of the Allegheny National forest to clearcutting, the effects on local people in Lynch, Pennsylvania, and the response of activists.

Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. This issue focuses on the North Country National Scenic Trail, and the challenges of ending oil and gas drilling on the Allegheny.

Hellbender Journal is a voice for forest activists working towards the protection of the Allegheny Forests in Pennsylvania. In this issue, Sam Hays explains the many external forces and circumstances affecting the Allegheny National Forest, encouraging readers to regard them constructively and with an eye for opportunities.

This collection of essays maps the heterogeneous and asymmetrical ecologies within which we are enmeshed, a material world that makes the human possible but also offers difficulties and resistance.

Alok Amatya studies the depiction of indigenous struggles against the grab of minerals, crude oil, and other natural resources by private and government corporations in works such as Arundhati Roy’s travel essay Walking with the Comrades (2010). He suggests that narratives of conflict over the extraction of natural resources can be studied as the corpus of “resource conflict literature,” thus generating a global comparative framework for the study of contemporary indigenous struggles.