
Wild Earth 10, no. 2
Wild Earth 10, no. 2
Cover art: “The Grand Cañon of the Yellowstone,” 1872, oil on canvas by Thomas Moran. Background: Map of Yellowstone National Park from Hayden survey data, 1871.
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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 10, no. 2 (Summer 2000). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6095.
Issue Theme: History and Opportunity: American Parks and Protected Areas
This issue includes:
- Anthropocentrism and Predation by John Muir
- Charting American Environmentalism’s Early (Intellectual) Geography, 1890-1920
by James Morton Turner - Creating Tradition: The Roots of National Park Management by Richard West Sellars
- Walk Softly and Carry a Big Map: Historical Roots of Wildlands Network Planning by Ed Zahniser
- Reformation Through Amputation: Expanding National Parks by Shrinking National Forests
by David Carle - The Sonoran Desert National Park: A Modest Proposal of Extraordinary Scope
by Carlos Martines del Rio and Bill Broyles - Maine Woods National Park: The Best Way to Restore the Wild by Michael Kellett
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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.
- Manes, Christopher. Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
- Sellars, Richard West. Preserving Nature in the National Parks: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.
- Sundin, Bosse. “Environmental Protection and the National Parks.” In Science in Sweden: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 1739–1989, edited by Tore Frängsmyr, 199–226. Canton: Science History Publications, 1989.