Earth First! Journal 17, no. 1 [misprinted as 16, no. 8]

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Earth First! Fist, Volume 17

Shapiro, Natalie, Tim Haugen, Craig Beneville, Jim Flynn, and Leslie Hemstreet, eds., Earth First! Journal 17, no. 1 [misprinted as 16, no. 8] (1 November 1996). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7021.


In this issue of Earth First! Journal Hugh Morose gives an update on the protests against salvage logging of Redwood groves in the Headwaters forest. In addition, Ken Wu discusses Earth First! and its shift towards protecting biodiversity instead of wilderness preservation, and Angela Schmitz reports about the new truce over the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska.  

In a drawn-out battle involving Alaska’s powerful congressional delegation, a violently antigreen Congress, a greedy multinational corporation and a well-funded wise use effort, no one would have predicted a conservation victory. For Tongass-watchers in Alaska and across the country, it’s a sudden end to a long and quixotic struggle that was supposed to be finished six years ago.

— Angela Schmitz


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Further readings: 
  • Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. New York: Lippincott, 1975.
  • Bari, Judi. Revolutionary Ecology: Biocentrism & Deep Ecology. Melville: Trees Foundation, 1998.
  • Foreman, Dave. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Harmony Books, 1991.
  • 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.
  • Lee, Martha. Earth First!: Environmental Apocalypse. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
  • Merchant, Carolyn. Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World. London: Routledge, 1992.