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Abbey, Edward, 109
Acadia National Park, 201, 217–18
Adbusters, 103
addiction, oil, 225–27
adventure films, 26–30
advertising, environmental, 47
AEA Investors, 200
agriculture
industrial, 11–12
sustainable, 61, 66, 73, 78
Agriculture Department, 121
AIDS awareness, 44
Air Resources Board, California, 235, 237, 242
alerce trees, 2, 72, 78
Allen, Carole, 265–79
as eco baron, 8, 304
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle and HEART campaign by, 265–69
lobbying of, for turtle excluder devices, 270–79
all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), 137, 306
alternative energy, 253–64. See also geothermal energy; hydrogen fuel cell vehicles; plug-in hybrid vehicles; solar energy; wind energy
American bison, 288–89
Americans for a Maine Woods National Park, 204
America Online (AOL), 281–84, 291
Ancient Forests International, 58
antibiotics, 69
antimalaria program, 284
Antiquities Act of 1906, 183–84, 218
ants, 219
Appalachian Mountain Club, 186
Arab oil embargo, 255
araucaria trees, 3, 58
architecture, Doug Tompkins’s, 25–26, 36–37, 42, 54, 66
arctic ice pack melting, 151–58
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 252–53
Argentina, 52–53, 58–60, 87–88. See also Patagonia
Arizona, global warming and, 261
ATVs (all-terrain vehicles), 137, 306
Audubon California, 158, 164, 166
Austin Electric company, 243
automobile industry, 221–38, 254. See also plug-in hybrid vehicles
Bahouth, Peter, 138, 289–91
Bailey Electric vehicle, 231–32
Baker Electric vehicle, 230
Baldacci, John, 188
bald eagles, 118, 124, 126
Banff National Park, 22
Bartley, Elaine and Pinkie, 213–14
batteries, 228–31, 235–38, 240, 244
battery-electric vehicles, 219, 227–38. See also plug-in hybrid vehicles
Baxter, Percival, 182, 204–5
Baxter State Park, 182, 203–4, 207
Beale, Edward Fitzgerald, 159
Beale, Truxtun, 159
beef, 288–89, 304
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 142
Benetton, Luciano, 67
biocentric worldview, 46
biodiversity hot spots, 96, 161, 167
biodiversity protection, 101–4. See also Center for Biological Diversity
bioengineering, 103
biological opinions, 131–33
birds, 88, 117–19, 124, 142, 148. See also endangered species; Mexican spotted owl case
bison, 288–89
Black Bench development, 162–63
black-footed ferret, 287
BluSkye company, 63
books, Doug Tompkins’s, 44, 75–77, 80, 102, 306
Braungart, Michael, 219
Brazilian rain forest, 288
Brokaw, Tom, 23, 63
Brower, David, 47
Brown, Helen Gurley, 34–35
Brown, Jerry, 163–64
Buckley, Peter, 37–39, 86–87
Burger, Warren, 123–24
Burt’s Bees company, 8–9, 192–200, 217, 302. See also Quimby, Roxanne
buses, fossil-fuel, 233
Bush, George H. W., 129, 256, 274–75
Bush, George W., 11, 75, 98, 118, 138–41, 144–58, 161, 225–26, 252–53, 257, 262–64, 277–78
Cable News Network, 282–83
Cabo Leon Preserve, 87
cabs, electric, 228
CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards, 255
Caleta ecotourism complex, 66, 81–82
California
Air Resources Board of, 235, 237, 242
Environmental Quality Act of, 162
Global Warming Solutions Act of, 260–64
Terry Tamminen as secretary of Environmental Protection Agency of, 8, 245–46, 249–53, 257–64 (see also Tamminen, Terry)
Tejon Ranch development in, 9–10, 95–101
zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate of, 234–38, 242
California condor, 96, 159–60
California Floristic Province, 161
California Mountaineering Service company, 19
camping issues, 177–78
camping gear, 24–26, 31
Canada lynx, 187–89
cancer, 254
Cani Araucaria Sanctuary, 3, 47, 57–58
cannibal controversy, Ted Turner and, 280–81, 291–93
capitalism, 55–57, 74, 234–38, 254, 259–60
carbon footprint campaign, 303–4
carbon offsets, 199, 258
Carl Moyer Program, 251
Carretera Austral, 62
cars. See automobile industry; plug-in hybrid vehicles
Carter, Jimmy, 146, 182, 253–57
Cartwright, Chip, 133–34
Catholic church, 71, 75–76, 81–84
Catholic University of Valparaiso, 81–84
Cat Survival Trust, 58–59
cattle industry, 287–89
Centennial development. See Tejon Ranch Company
Center for Biological Diversity, 93–168. See also Cummings, Brendan; Galvin, Peter; Siegel, Kassie; Silver, Robin; Suckling, Kieran
California greenhouse gas emissions and, 258, 263
Climate, Air, and Energy Program of, 144–46
campaign of, against all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), 306
eco barons of, 100, 145
Endangered Species Act of 1973 and, 117, 123–30
Peter Galvin and, 106, 109–15, 141
growth and current status of, 135–39, 302
Julie MacDonald scandal and, 139–41, 188
Mexican spotted owl case of, 130–35
opposition to Tejon Ranch by, 95–101, 158–68
owl survey crews and start of, 104–6
research and endangered-species petitions of, 116–23
Kassie Siegel, Brendan Cummings, and polar bear case of, 144–58, 302
Robin Silver and, 113–15, 117
Kieran Suckling and, 106–9, 115, 141–43
Doug Tompkins’s Foundation for
Deep Ecology and, 101–4
Ted Turner’s Turner Foundation and, 289
Center for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research, 241
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, 75
Chacabuco ranch, 88–89
Challenge X competition, 239
Chandler, Harry, 159
charging stations, electric vehicle, 231
Chevy Equinox vehicle, 225
Chile. See also Patagonia
Yvon Chouinard’s nature preserve in, 3, 47, 57–58
national parks, 56–57, 85–90
opposition to Doug Tompkins in, 54–57, 66–85
Chilton, James, 138
China, 234, 257
Chouinard, Yvon
nature preserve of, in Chile, 3, 47, 57–58
Doug Tompkins and, 21–30, 63, 89
Kris Tompkins and, 51–53
Chouinard Equipment company, 24–25, 29–30
civil disobedience, 176
Clean Air Act, 126
clean climbing, 30
Clean Water Act, 126
clear-cut forestry, 46–47, 204–5
Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry (book), 75–77, 80, 102
climate action plans, 257–64
climate change. See global warming issue
Climate Project, 147
climbing, 18–19, 24–31
Clinton, Bill, 129, 257
Clorox Company, 217, 302
clothing companies. See Esprit clothing company; Patagonia clothing company
CNN, 282–83
Collapse (book), 292–93
Collins, Susan, 188
colonies, extraterrestrial, 294–95
Commerce Department, 270–71, 274–75
compact fluorescent lightbulbs, 303
compromise strategy, 208–12, 216
concept plans, Maine Woods, 185–86
condors, California, 95, 159–60
Conlogue, Gene, 211
Conservación Patagonica, 89
conservation
Forest Service, 121
Maine Woods, 208
philanthropy (see eco-philanthropy)
Conservation Land Trust, 57, 87
consumerism, 45
continuously variable transmission, 222–23, 241
Corcoran, Bill, 167
Corcovado nature preserve, 86
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, 255
corridors. See wildlife corridors
Cosmopolitan magazine, 34–35
Coulomb vehicle, 242
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (book), 219
Crist, Charlie, 262
Cummings, Brendan, 146–58. See also Center for Biological Diversity
Cummings, Jeff, 213
cypress trees, 86
dams, Chilean, 91, 305
Davis, Paul, 205–6
deadlines, Endangered Species Act, 152
dead zones, ocean, 69, 271
Death Valley National Park, 180
Deep Ecology: Living As If Nature Mattered (book), 45
deep ecology philosophy, 45–46, 65, 69, 73–85
defamation suit, 138
Defenders of Wildlife, 187
DeLay, Tom, 125
departments, U. S. government. See
Agriculture Department; Commerce Department; Energy
Department; Fish and Wildlife
Service; Forest Service; Interior
Department; Transportation
Department
desert bighorn sheep, 286
Detroit Electric vehicle, 231–32
Devall, Bill, 45
development, leapfrog, 161–64. See also Plum Creek Company; Tejon Ranch Company
DeWolf, Bart, 204, 207–8
Diamond, Jared, 292–93
diesel buses, 233
Do Boys outdoorsmen group, 63
documentary films, 12, 26–31, 147
Dorworth, Dick, 27–29
Earth Day, 126, 253
Earth First! organization, 44, 102–3, 106, 109, 112–13
earth-friendly products, 195, 198
Earth Island Institute, 102
EarthLaw firm, 131
eco barons
Carole Allen (see Allen, Carole)
Center for Biological Diversity (see Center for Biological Diversity; Cummings, Brendan; Galvin, Peter; Siegel, Kassie; Silver, Robin; Suckling, Kieran)
current activities of, 302–7
Andy Frank (see Frank, Andy)
overview of, 7–13
Roxanne Quimby (see Quimby, Roxanne)
sustainability, time issues, and, 294–302
Terry Tamminen (see Tamminen, Terry)
Douglas Tompkins (see Tompkins, Douglas)
Ted Turner (see Turner, Ted [Robert Edward, III])
eco-philanthropy
historic opposition to, 55–57
Roxanne Quimby’s, 8–9, 201–12, 216–18, 302
Doug Tompkins’s, 1–7, 15, 54–55, 57–70, 85–91, 305–7
Ted Turner’s, 280–82, 289–91
ecotourism, 66, 88–89
Edison, Thomas Alva, 219, 228, 230–32
Edwards, Edwin, 274
Efficient Drivetrains, Inc., 244
egg poaching, sea turtle, 265–70
electricant charging stations, 231
electricity usage, 261, 303–4
Electric Storage Battery Company, 228
electric trolleys, 232–33
electric vehicles, 219, 227–38. See also plug-in hybrid vehicles; zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate
electronics, vampire, 303–4
Elgueta, Sergio, 82
Elliotsville Plantation, 204
Ellison, Jib, 63, 296
El Piñalito Provincial Park, 58–60
El Rincon nature preserve, 88
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 93
Endangered Habitats League, 164
endangered species. See also Endangered Species Act of 1973
George W. Bush and warranted but precluded list, 139, 148
Canada lynx case, 187–89
Center for Biological Diversity and, 97–101, 116–23 (see also Center for Biological Diversity)
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle case, 265–79, 304
Mexican spotted owl case, 104–6, 130–35
in Patagonia, 59, 67–68, 87–88, 90
polar bear case, 98, 144–58
Roxanne Quimby and, 207–8
at Tejon Ranch, 96, 159–61
Ted Turner and, 281, 284–91
Endangered Species Act of 1973, 56, 99, 105, 117, 123–30, 145, 148–58, 266, 271–78, 302. See also endangered species
Endesa company, 84–85, 89, 91
Energy Department, 150, 239–42, 253–54
energy efficiency, 253–57. See also fuel efficiency
environmental issues. See also eco-philanthropy
George W. Bush and, 138–41, 144–47, 161
lobbying and public appeals vs. litigation on, 128, 129–30 (see also Center for Biological Diversity)
Patagonia’s, 5–67
Plum Creek Company and, 186–87
Roxanne Quimby and, 198–200
Restore advocacy group and, 180–89, 203–12
Arnold Schwarzenegger and, 245–50
Terry Tamminen and, 245–53, 257–64
Tejon Ranch Company and, 164–68
Doug Tompkins and, 3, 36–37, 43–50, 56–57, 71–85, 101–4
Ted Turner and, 8, 67, 280–91, 304–5
Environmental Protection Agency, California, 245–46, 249–53, 257–64. See also Tamminen, Terry
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S., 126, 260, 263–64
Environment Now foundation, 248
Equinox vehicle, 225
Eshel, Gidon, 288
Esprit clothing company. See also
Tompkins, Douglas; Tompkins, Susie Russell
environmental issues at, 43–48, 104
management of, 35–43
selling of, 48–50
starting of, 31–33
Doug Tompkins as image director of, 2–5, 17, 34–35, 41–43, 45
essays, Doug Tompkins’s, 4, 44
Estancia Valle Chacabuco, 88–90
Estero del Ibera nature preserve, 87–88
EV1 vehicle, 235–38, 241–42, 244
Evans, Brock, 129
Exide company, 228
Explorer hybrid SUV, 241
extinction, mass, 10, 110–12, 124
extraterrestrial colonies, 294–95
farming. See agriculture; organic
farms
fashion. See Esprit cothing company; Patagonia clothing company
Fatal Harvest (book), 102
Fifth Symphony, Beethoven’s, 142
films, documentary, 12, 26–31, 147
Fiordos Blancos salmon company, 68–70, 82–83
Firestone, Harvey, 219
Firestone Tire and Rubber, 233
First Roach Pond development, 179–80. See also Plum Creek Company
Fish and Wildlife Service, 113–14, 130–32, 140, 149–60, 187–88, 285
fishing issues, 177–78, 289. See also salmon farms; shrimping industry
Fitts, Stacy, 213
Flying D Ranch, 285–86
flywheels, vehicle, 240–41
Foley, David, 214
Fonda, Jane, 284, 290
Ford, Henry, 219, 228, 230, 231–32
Ford Motor Company, 235, 241, 244
foreign investment, Chile and, 66–67
Foreman, Dave, 44, 102–3
Forest Guardians, 102
forestry, industrial, 46–47, 75–77, 80, 102, 204–5. See also Forest Service; timber industry
forests, 86, 87. See also Maine Woods; old-growth forests
Forest Service, 104–9, 113–15, 119–23, 129, 131–35
Forest Society of Maine, 186–87
fossil-fuel vehicles, 224, 227–38. See also oil and gas industry; plug-in hybrid vehicles
Foundation for Deep Ecology, 57–58, 101–4, 306
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (book), 44
Frank, Andy, 221–44. See also plug-in hybrid vehicles
California’s zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate and, 234–38
development of plug-in hybrid vehicles by, 221–25, 238–44, 302–3
as eco baron, 8
on oil addiction, 225–27
free-market capitalism. See capitalism
Frei, Eduardo, 74, 83–88
Friends of the Earth, 102
Friends of the Owl, 119, 130
fuel efficiency, 150, 228–30, 234, 238–39, 241, 253–55, 303–4. See also plug-in hybrid vehicles
Fuller, Buckminster, 295
Funhogs, The (film), 30–31
Funhogs climbing group, 27–31
FutureCar and FutureTruck competitions, 242
Galvin, Peter, 8, 100, 106, 109–15, 141, 148–50, 164–68. See also Center for Biological Diversity
gas industry. See oil and gas industry
gasoline vehicles, 227–38. See also hybrid vehicles; plug-in hybrid vehicles
General Electric, 231
General Motors, 221–22, 226, 233–38, 241, 244
general standing (legal), 127
Geological Survey, U.S., 152
Georgia Pacific paper company, 177
geothermal energy, 256
Gephardt, Dick, 85
Gila National Forest, 104–6, 113–23, 287
globalization, 101–3
global warming issue
George W. Bush and, 139, 144–45
Center for Biological Diversity and, 98, 100–101, 137, 144–58, 302
oil addiction and, 225–27
Patagonia and, 5–6
presidential administrations and, 253–57
Arnold Schwartzenegger and, 162, 249–50
Terry Tamminen and, 245–46, 249–53, 257–64, 303–4
Ted Turner and, 280–82, 290–91, 304–5
Global Warming Solutions Act, 260–64
Gore, Al, 12, 147, 290
Grand Canyon National Park, 47, 182
Grand Teton National Park, 6, 182–84, 218
grants
Robin Silver’s, 114–15, 118
Doug Tompkins’s, 56–57, 80, 101–4, 136, 180, 305
Ted Turner’s, 136, 281–82, 289–91
grasslands
Argentina’s, 52–53, 89
U.S., 285
gray whales, 124
gray wolves, 285
Greater Gila Biodiversity Project, 117, 119, 130
Greater Good business model, 198–99
green corridors. See wildlife corridors
greenhouse gas emissions, 139, 145, 147, 162–64, 221–23, 226, 245, 257–64, 288. See also global warming issue
Greenpeace, 152, 289–90
Greenville, Maine, 177–80, 185–86, 212–16
Gregoire, Christine, 261
Hanks, Tom, 236
Hayes, Denis, 253–54
HEART (Help Endangered Animals—Ridley Turtles) campaign, 268–79. See also Allen, Carole
Hoffman, Adrianna, 58, 80–81, 87, 90
home power plants, 231–32, 242, 259
hooters (owl survey crews), 104–6
horse trading strategy, 207–12
Horvath, Antonio, 74
House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, 155–56
Hudson RiverKeeper group, 247–48
Hughes, Mark, 131, 134
Humane Society, 276–77
Hummer vehicle, 11, 226, 238, 241
Hundred-Mile Wilderness Area, 186
hunting issues, 177–78, 204–12, 289
hybrid vehicles, 223, 243. See also plug-in hybrid vehicles hydrogen economy, 103
hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, 224, 242, 249, 251
hydrolelectric projects, Chilean, 91, 305
Impact vehicle, 235, 238
incentives, 11–12, 225–26
incidental take permits, 161
Inconvenient Truth, An (documentary film), 12, 147
industrial agriculture, 11–12
industrial forestry, 75–77
in-holdings, Acadia National Park, 217–18
Interior Department, 139–41, 153–58, 188–89
internal combustion engines, 229–30. See also gasoline vehicles
International Conservation Caucus Foundation, 306–7
International Forum on Globalization, 103
International Paper company, 177
interurban light rail systems, 232–33
Johnson, Stephen, 263
Johnson-Rodriguez, Ron, 243
Jones, Chris, 27–29
Josephson, Matthew, 15
Joshua Tree National Park, 137, 144
karma, 203, 217
Katahdin Lake, 205
Kemp, Richard, 266
Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, 265–79, 304. See also Allen, Carole
Kempthorne, Dirk, 153–58, 188
Kennedy, Robert F., Jr., 247–48, 305
Kimbrell, Andrew, 103
Kittlitz’s murrelet, 148
Knock About Club in the Woods (book), 215
Kyoto Protocol, 257–58
Ladder Ranch, 286–87
Lagos, Ricardo, 84, 90
land swaps, Roxanne Quimby’s, 207–12
Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC), 180, 185–86, 212–16
laws, environmental, 126. See also Center for Biological Diversity; Endangered Species Act of 1973
lead-acid batteries, 229–30, 240
leapfrog development, 161–64
Lello, Jayne, 215–16
Leopold, Aldo, 104, 116
lightbulbs, compact fluorescent, 303
light rail systems, 232–33
linguistic diversity, 141–43
litigation. See Center for Biological Diversity
Living the Good Life: How to Live Simply and Sanely in a Troubled World (book), 190
logging. See forestry, industrial; timber industry
low-emission vehicles, 259. See also electric vehicles; plug-in hybrid vehicles
lung diseases, 254
MacDonald, Julie, 139–41, 188–89
Mack Truck, 233
Maine, 196–97, 204. See also Maine Woods
Maine Snowmobile Association, 209–12
Maine Woods
history of, 173–78
Plum Creek Company and, 178–80, 212–18
Roxanne Quimby and national park plan for, 8–9, 171–73, 201–12
Restore advocacy group and, 180–89
Maine Woods, The (book), 169, 175–76, 215
Mander, Jerry, 44–45, 47–48, 103
Marine Mammal Protection Act, 126, 157
market capitalism. See capitalism
Martin, Pamela A., 288
mass extinctions, 10, 110–12, 124
McCain, John, 290–91
McDivitt, Kris. See Tompkins, Kris McDivitt
McDonough, William, 219
media watchdog groups, 103
medical costs, 254
Melimoyu Preserve, 87
Mercury Sable hybrid vehicle, 242
Mexican spotted owl case, 104–6, 119–23, 130–35
Mexican wolves, 286–87
Mialjevich, Tee John, 273–74
milk vetch, 151
Millet, Lydia, 141
Millinocket, Maine, 209–12
Million Solar Roofs Plan, 259
Mixte vehicle, 240
Model T vehicle, 229–30
monkey puzzle trees, 3, 58
Monkey Wrench Gang, The (book), 109
Monte Leon national park, 88
Moosehead Lake, Maine, 177–79, 185, 189, 212–16
Mosbacher, Robert, 274–75
mountaineering, 18–19, 24–31
Mountain of Storms (film), 30–31
Mount Fitz Roy, 26–31
Mount Katahdin, 182, 205, 207
Muecke, Carl, 132–34
Naess, Arne, 46, 75–76
Napolitano, Janet, 261
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), 294–95
National Audubon Society, 159–60
National City Lines, 233
National Environmental Policy Act, 126
National Marine Fisheries Service, 267, 270–79
national monuments, U.S., 183–84, 218
national parks, Chilean, 56–57, 85–90
national parks, U.S.
Maine Woods as, 180–89, 218 (see also Maine Woods)
opposition to, 55, 182–84
private philanthropy and, 307
Ted Turner and, 291
National Park Service, U.S., 217–18. See also national parks
National Research Council, 124, 270
national security issues, 69–71, 73–74, 255
Natural Resources Defense Council, 152, 164, 167, 247
Nature Conservancy, 75, 186–87
nature preserves
Henry David Thoreau’s and, 175–76
Roxanne Quimby and, 201–12
Doug Tompkins and, 1–7, 54–55, 60–70, 85–91
Ted Turner and, 67, 284–91
Nearing, Helen and Scott, 190
New America Foundation, 303–4
nickel-iron alkaline batteries, 230–31
nickel metal hydride batteries, 235
Nixon, Richard, 126, 255
northern spotted owl case, 127–28
North Face company, 24–26, 31
North Woods. See Maine Woods nuclear disarmament, 282
oak tree species, California, 161
Obama, Barack, 303
oceans, 137, 146, 148, 251, 271
oil and gas industry, 11–12, 155–57, 223–27, 252–53, 254–55
old-growth forests
in Chile, 4, 72, 86
in Maine, 174, 207
One Percent for the Planet campaign, 52
Operation Head Start, 267–68, 270
optimism
Doug Tompkins’s, 13
Ted Turner’s, 293
organic farms, 61, 66, 73, 78
Orth, Maureen, 35
overpopulation, 75–76
Ovonics company, 236–37
owl survey crews, 104–6, 113–15, 119–23. See also Center for Biological Diversity
Ozone Action, 290
paper industry, 176–77
Passacantando, John, 290
Patagonia. See also Argentina; Chile; Pumalin Park
adventure of Doug Tompkins and Yvon Chouinard in, 19, 26–31
opposition to Doug Tompkins in, 54–57, 66–85
Doug Tompkins’s land purchases in, 1–7, 60–67, 85–91, 305–6
Kris Tompkins’s move to, 52–54
Patagonia clothing company, 3, 30, 51–53, 89
Patagonia National Park, 89–90
Paulson, Henry, 75, 306
Peacock, Doug, 63
Pentagon global warming preparedness, 146–47
Perkins, Stephen and Meredith, 214–15
Petersen Auto Museum, 224–25
philanthropy. See eco-philanthropy
Phillips, Mike, 281, 285
Phillips Petroleum, 233
Pinochet, Augusto, 5, 56, 62, 64, 69, 73–74, 83
pitons, Yvon Chouinard’s, 23–25, 29–30
Plain Jane Dress Company, 31–32, 39–40
Planning and Conservation League, 164
plug-in hybrid vehicles, 221–44
automotive history and, 227–34
California’s zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate and, 234–38
Andy Frank’s development of, 221–25, 238–44, 302–3
oil addiction and, 225–27
Plum Creek Company, 178–80, 184–89, 212–16, 302
polar bear case, 98, 144–58, 161, 302
pollinator corridors, 285. See also wildlife corridors
Pombo, Richard, 125, 139
portable home power plant, 231
prairie dogs, 287
precautionary principle, 124
predators, 57–58
Prius vehicle, 223, 243, 288
private property rights, 164–68, 206, 210
privatization, Maine Woods, 174–75
public access laws, Maine’s, 177–78
Public Media Center, 47, 103
pudu deer, 2
Pumalin Park. See also Patagonia; Reñihue Fjord
opposition to, 54–57, 67–85, 305–6
Doug Tompkins’s creation of, 51, 60–67, 90–91
pumas, 2, 90
Quilhot, Patricio, 69–70, 82–83
Quimby, Roxanne, 169–218. See also Maine Woods
Burt’s Bees company of, 192–200
as eco baron, 8–9, 302
life of, 171–73, 190–92
Maine Woods land purchases by, 201–12, 216–18
Quimby Family Foundation, 204
Rainforest Action Network, 102
rain forest ecosystem, 58–60, 288
ranching industry, 102, 287–89
Rancho Huinay, 84–85
range, vehicle, 223, 227–28, 230–32, 235, 237, 241
rate, extinction, 10. See also mass extinctions rate structure, electrical, 261
RAV4-EV vehicle, 235–38
Reagan, Ronald, 11, 54, 105, 113, 128–29, 146, 162, 253, 255–56, 268, 273
real estate investment trusts (REITs), 178–79
Recreation Unlimited company, 24
Redwood National Park, 182
Region X, Chile, 73
renewable energy. See alternative energy renewable portfolio standard, 259–60
Reñihue Fjord, 1–7, 54, 56, 60, 65–66. See also Patagonia; Pumalin Park restaurants, Ted Turner’s, 288–89
restoration, forest, 78
Restore: The North Woods (advocacy group), 180–89, 203–12
Reynolds, Joel, 167
Ridgeway, Rick, 63
Rifkin, Jeremy, 103
Riker electric vehicle, 228
robber barons, 8, 15
Robber Barons, The (book), 15
Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 6, 183, 217–18, 281
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 183–84, 217–18
Roosevelt, Teddy, 121, 182, 207
Russell, Susie. See Tompkins, Susie
Russell
Sable hybrid vehicle, 242
Sacramento Delta smelt case, 140
safety, automobile, 227
St. Clair, George, 191–92
St. Pierre, Jym, 181–82, 189, 212
salmon farms, 54–55, 67–70, 82–83
Santa Monica BayKeeper group, 248
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 162, 167, 245–50, 261
science, George W. Bush administration suppression of, 139–41, 153–54, 189–90
Scott Paper company, 177
sea lions, Chilean, 67–68, 82
Sea Shepard Conservancy, 102
Sea Turtle Restoration Project, 276–79. See also Allen, Carole; Kemp’s ridley sea turtles
Select Committee on Maine’s Future Prosperity, 213
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, 156
Sessions, George, 45, 75–76
Seven Sisters paper companies, 177–78
Seydel, Laura, 284
Shabashevich, Andrew, 239
Shaver, Donna, 276–78
Shavitz, Burt, 192–97
Shin Pond, Maine, 205–6, 212
Shrider, Marylee, 164
shrimping industry, 265, 269–79
Siegel, Kassie, 145–58, 302. See also Center for Biological Diversity
Sierra Club, 47, 158, 164–67
Sierra Nevada Conservancy, 251
Silver, Robin, 104–5, 113–15, 118, 130, 134
Sky Islands Wildlands Network, 286–87
Smith, Roger, 235–36, 238
snail darter case, 123–24, 127
Snake River Land Company, 183
Snowe, Olympia, 188
snowmobile issues, 186, 204–12
solar energy, 219, 242, 251, 253–56, 259, 304–5
Solar Energy Research Institute, 253
Soros, George, 67
Soule, Michael, 102
Southern California Edison, 237–38
Southern Highway, Chilean, 62
Southern Rocky Mountain wolves, 287–88
Southwest Center for Biological Diversity. See Center for Biological Diversity
Southwest willow flycatcher, 117
SpaceSet design contest, 294–95
speed, vehicle, 222, 227–28
spirituality, 202–3
sportsmen associations, 186. See also camping issues; fishing issues; hunting issues; snowmobile issues
Sportsmen’s Alliance, 209–12
sport utility vehicles (SUVs), 139, 221–23, 241
spotted owl. See Mexican spotted owl case
Standard Oil, 233–34
standing, general (legal), 127
Stanley, Steve, 205–6
Steiner, Todd, 276
Stephens, C. A., 215
subsidies, 11–12, 225–26
Suckling, Kieran, 8, 100, 106–9, 115, 141–43, 148–50, 248. See also Center for Biological Diversity
Suckling, Nola, 141–43
Supreme Court, 139
sustainability
eco barons and, 12, 294–302
Jib Ellison, Wal-Mart, and, 63
Endangered Species Act and, 150
Doug Tompkins and, 44–45, 61
SUVs (sport utility vehicles), 139, 221–23, 241
Symington, Fife, III, 133
Tamminen, Terry, 245–64
background of, 247–49
carbon footprint campaign of, 303–4
Arnold Schwarzenegger and, 246–49
as secretary of California Environmental Protection Agency, 245–46, 249–53, 257–64
tax credits, 11–12, 225–26
tax-exempt status, Doug Tompkins and, 72, 83–85
taxicabs, electric, 228
Team Fate, 239–44
Ted’s Montana Grill, 288
Tejada-Flores, Lito, 26–29
Tejon Ranch Company, 9–10, 95–102, 158–64
Tennessee Valley Authority, 123–24, 127
The North Face company, 24–26, 31
Think! vehicle, 235
Thoreau, Henry David, 9, 109, 169, 175–76, 215
Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act, 125
Thrillcraft (book), 306
Tic Toc nature preserve, 86
Tides Foundation, 102
Tierra del Fuego, 57, 62, 87
timber industry, 56–57, 75–79, 89, 100, 109, 119–23, 127–28, 133–35, 176–80, 187, 204–12
time issues, 297–302
Time-Warner, 283–84
tire inflation, 304
Tise, Jane, 31–33
Tompkins, Douglas, 1–7, 15–91
adventure companies of, 19, 24
adventure of, in Patagonia, 26–29
Yvon Chouinard and, 21–24, 26–30, 57–58
campaign of, against all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), 306
documentary films of, 30–31
early life of, 17–19
as eco baron, 9, 15, 296, 305–7
eco-philanthropy of, 57–70, 305–7
Esprit clothing company of, 31–50 (see also Esprit clothing company)
Foundation for Deep Ecology of, 57–58, 101–4, 136–37, 306
opposition to, in Chile, 54–57, 66–85
optimism of, 13
purchase of land in Patagonia by, 1–7, 60–67, 85–91
Restore advocacy group and, 180
Kris McDivitt Tompkins and, 51–54, 65–66, 75, 85–91, 305–7
Susie Russell Tompkins and, 19–21, 23, 26, 31–33, 35, 40, 43, 48–50
on Ted Turner, 281
The North Face company of, 24–26, 31
Tompkins, Kris McDivitt, 9, 51–54, 65–66, 75, 85–91, 305–7
Tompkins, Quincey and Summer, 26
Tompkins, Susie Russell, 19–21, 23, 26, 31–33, 35, 40, 43, 48–50. See also Esprit clothing company
Too Funny to Be President (book), 184
Toscani, Oliviero, 41
Toyota Prius vehicle, 223, 243, 288
Toyota RAV4-EV vehicle, 235–38
transmission, continuously variable, 222–23, 241
Transportation Department, 149–50, 240
Trento Film Festival, 30
Trillium logging company, 57
Trinity vehicle, 225
trolleys, electric, 232–33
Turner, Beau, 285
Turner, Ted (Robert Edward, III), 280–93
cannibal controversy of, 291–93
Center for Biological Diversity and, 136
as eco baron, 8, 280–81, 304–5
land purchases of, in Chile, 67
land purchases of, in U.S., 284–91
life of, 281–84
Turner Broadcasting System, 282–83
Turner Endangered Species Fund, 285
Turner Foundation, 282, 284, 289–91
Turning Point Project, 101–2
turtle excluder device (TED), 271–78
Udall, Morris K., 184
Ultimate Pool Maintenance Manual,
The (book), 247
United Nations, 96, 161, 167, 282
United Nations Foundation, 282
United States
Agriculture Department, 121
beef consumption in, 288–89
Commerce Department, 270–71, 274–75
Endangered Species Act, 56, 99, 105, 117, 123–30, 145, 148–58, 266, 271–78, 302
Energy Department, 150, 239–42, 253–54
energy efficiency policies of, 253–57
Environmental Protection
Agency, 126, 260, 263–64
Fish and Wildlife Service, 113–14, 130–32, 140, 149–60, 187–88, 285
Forest Service, 104–9, 113–15, 119–23, 129, 131–35
Geological Survey, 152
Interior Department, 139–41, 153–58, 188–89
Julie MacDonald scandal in, 139–41
national monuments, 183–84, 218
National Park Service, 217–18 (see also national parks, U.S.)
Pentagon global warming preparedness, 146–47
presidential administrations of, and global warming, 253–57 (see also Bush, George H. W.; Bush, George W.; Carter, Jimmy; Clinton, Bill; Obama, Barack; Reagan, Ronald)
Supreme Court, 139
Transportation Department, 149–50, 240
Ted Turner’s land purchases in, 284–91
wastefulness of, 11–12
Wildlands Project, 59–60
U.S. Climate Action Network, 289
University of California–Davis, 222–25, 241–44
Unorganized Territories, Maine’s, 172, 177, 185
unsustainability. See sustainability
Urban Car Contest, 240
Valley Cong climbing group, 22
vampire electronics, 303–4
vehicles. See automobile industry; plug-in hybrid vehicles
Ventura River restoration, 52
Vermijo Park Ranch, 287–89
VF Corporation, 31
volcanoes, Patagonia, 5, 305–6
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 294
Wal-Mart company, 63, 68, 302, 304–5
warranted but precluded list, 139, 148
Washington state, global warming and, 261
Wassatoquoik Stream, 205, 207–9, 211
Water Canyon timber sale, 120–23
water quality, 247
Watt, James, 128–29
welfare ranching, 102
Wells, Frank, 248
westslope cutthroat trout, 285–86
white-breasted wood wren, 142
whooping cranes, 124
wilderness, 175–76. See also national parks, Chilean; national parks, U.S.; nature preserves; wildlife corridors
Wildlands Philanthropy movement, 15. See also eco-philanthropy
Wildlands Project, 59–60, 102–3, 285–86
wildlife corridors, 59–60, 87, 102–3, 285–87
wildlife protection. See Endangered Species Act of 1973
Williams, Harrison, 126–27
wind energy, 231, 256
Wise Use Movement, 46, 122, 128
Wohlforth, Noel, 214
wolves, 285–88
wood pulp industry, 176–77
World Trade Organization (WTO), 102
Wyss, Hansjörg, 137
Yellowstone National Park, 285
Yellowstone-to-Yukon Conservation Initiative, 285–86
Yendegaia Foundation, 87
Yosemite National Park, 21–23, 25
Ysern, Monsignor Juan Luis, 83
Yuraszek, José, 84
zero emissions vehicle (ZEV) mandate, 226, 234–38, 259
zero population growth, 81–82
Zwally, Jay, 155