Wild Earth 12, no. 2

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Earth First! Movement Writings

Wild Earth 12, no. 2

Intended as yet another instrument for attacking anthropocentric ideologies and voracious agricultural/industrial civilizations, the journal Wild Earth was published by the Earth First! movement between 1991–2004.


Butler, Tom, ed., Wild Earth 12, no. 2 (Summer 2002). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6102.

Issue Theme: Deep Time

This issue includes:

  • Finding Our Bearings by John McPhee
  • Evolution’s Second Chance by David Burney, David Steadman, and Paul Martin
  • Goodbye Eternal Frontier by Connie Barlow
  • Reuniting Pangaea by Yvonne Baskin
  • Wilderness Is Where My Genome Lives by Paul Shepard
  • Ecopsychology since 1992 by Theodore Roszak
  • Native Snails: Indicators of Ecosystem Health by Terrence Prest
  • Honoring a Wilderness Vision: A Proposal for Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest
    by Newkirk Johnson
  • National Forests or Amusement Parks? by Bethanie Walder

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Further readings: 
  • Foster, David R., and John D. Aber, eds. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
  • Butler, Tom, ed. Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
  • Borchers, Henning. Jurassic Wilderness: Ecotourism as a Conservation Strategy in Komodo National Park, Indonesia. Stuttgart: Ibiden, 2004.
  • Fisher, Andy, and David Abram. "Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life.". Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013.
  • Kahn, Peter H., and Patricia H. Hasbach, eds. Ecopsychology: Science, Totems, and the Technological Species. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012.