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.
Davis, John, ed., Wild Earth 4, no. 4 (Winter 1994/95). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/5687.
Issue Theme: A Critique and Defense of the Wilderness Idea
This issue includes:
- Peregrine Falcons in Urban Environments by Allison Jones and Peter Stacey
- State Complicity in Wildlife Losses by George Wuerthner
- Lebanon Situation Improves by Fareed Abouhaidar
- Forest Defenders Target Wisconsin Timber Law by Richard H. Chamberlin
- Recovery of the Common Lands by Brad Meiklejohn
- A Critique of and an Alternative to the Wilderness Idea by J. Baird Callicott
- Wilderness—Now More Than Ever by Reed Noss
- Wilderness Areas Are Vital by Dave Foreman
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- Butler, Tom, ed. Wild Earth: Wild Ideas for a World Out of Balance. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2002.
- 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.
- Keeling, Paul M. "Does the Idea of Wilderness Need a Defence?" Environmental Values 17, no. 4 (2008): 505–19.
- Callicott, J. Baird. "The Pragmatic Power and Promise of Theoretical Environmental Ethics: Forging a New Discourse." Environmental Values 11, no. 1 (2002): 3–25.