Wild Earth 12, no. 3

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Wild Earth 12, no. 3

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. 3 (Fall 2002). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6103. 

This issue includes:

  • Commerce and Wilderness by Paul Hawken
  • Wilderness and Energy: The Battle Against Domination by David Johns
  • Activism, Taste, and Conscience: Literary Intellectuals and Their Role in Conservation by Jay Kardan
  • Darkness and Memory by John Elder
  • Mike Fay interviewed by Joshua Brown and Jennifer Esser
  • Smokey and Mirrors: The War Between Science and Pseudoscience in Grizzly Bear Conservation
    by Stephen F. Stringham
  • Conserving Wildlands in Mexico by Rurik List and Patricia Manzano-Fischer
  • First Steps Along the Appalachian Trail: Benton MacKaye’s Progressive Vision by Larry Anderson
  • The Impossible Race: Population Growth and the Fallacies of Agricultural Hope by Hugh Iltis

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Further readings: 
  • Nash, Roderick. Wilderness and the American Mind. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967.
  • Wakild, Emily. Revolutionary Parks: Conservation, Social Justice, and Mexico’s National Parks, 1910–1940. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2011.
  • Bryson, Bill. "A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail.". New York: Random House LLC, 2006.
  • Davoll, John. “Population Growth and Conservation Organizations, with Particular Reference to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).” Population and Environment 10, no. 2 (1988): 107-14.
  • Runge, Carlisle Ford. "Energy Exploration on Wilderness: 'Privatization' and Public Lands Management." Land Economics 60, no. 1 (1984): 56-68.