Wild Earth 10, no. 1, presents essays on the mission, vision, and purpose of “The Wildlands Project,” which aims “to design and implement systems of protected natural areas/wildlands networks across the continent.”
Wild Earth 14, no. 1/2 features essays on protecting the national forest wilderness after the Wilderness Act, natural history going extinct, carnivore conservation in the Rocky Mountains, and questions of fertility.
Wild Earth 11, no. 1, features stories about New England’s wilderness: primeval forests, the Northwoods, large mammals, old growth forests, as well as conservation history and biodiversity of the eastern United States.
A Tuesday Discussion with Lena Köhn.
This Ecotopia Earth First! newsletter includes Judi Bari’s call for action in the endangered Headwaters Forest, the EF! blockade of MAXXAM redwoods logging in Redway, and helicopter logging in Albion. The issue of tree spiking is discussed, as well as Assata Shakur’s autobiography and the harmful effects of a landfill in an Indian reservoir. Demonstrators against logging operations “confess” their trespassing “sins.”
This introductory guide to the Earth First! movement was produced by The Earth First! Journal for Earth First! local groups. It outlines the purpose, philosophy, and tasks of the Earth First! movement, as well as information about its foundation, journal, wilderness preservation, local groups, monkeywrenching, and direct action.
Sherry Johnson, Carson Fellow from January 2010 until July 2010, talks about her research on the history of disasters and climatology and the related environmental, social, and political changes.
Martin Knoll, Carson Fellow from October to March 2009, talks about his research concerning perceptions of nature and the creation of environmental knowledge in early modern topographical literature.
Pedro Brancalion is a professor of forest restoration at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. In this presentation, he discusses the results of his research conducted in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. He applies these results to other tropical forests across the globe, stressing the importance of global restoration implementation.
Katharine Suding, plant ecologist and professor at the University of Michigan, outlines the scaling of ecosystem restoration and how scaling is affecting the very notion of restoration in this presentation at the Latsis Symposium 2018.
