Index
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Abbey, Edward, 185–88; anarchism of, 160–61, 188, 189fig; anti-immigration stance, 196, 204; and Black Mesa, 211, 212; vs. Bookchin, 192, 197, 234; on the breakdown of representative democracy, 222; on cowboy life, 172; Desert Solitaire, 187, 234; and Earth First!, 121–22, 124, 185, 189fig, 204; and the Glen Canyon Dam, 123; Hayduke Lives!, 185, 234; The Journey Home, 123; The Monkey Wrench Gang, 121–22, 129, 141, 185, 269; on patriotism, 281; on terrorism vs. sabotage, 142
Adams, Ansel, 15, 17–18, 26, 38
Adams, Brock, 246
AIDS epidemic, 196
air quality, xi, 24, 84. See also Clean Air Act; pollution
Alaska: Alaska Natives, 109, 127, 212–13; atomic bombs tested in, 130–31; battle over public lands, 108–10, 114, 116, 117, 127, 149, 324–25n23; highlighted in 1969 wilderness conference, 39–40; trans-Alaska pipeline, 58
Alaska Coalition, 109–10, 116
Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), 109–10, 316n45. See also Alaska: battle over public lands
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971), 109
Alexander, George, 223
Alien-Nation (anarchist group), 204–5, 233, 335n51
Alliance for the Wild Rockies, 266
Allison, James Robert, III, 336n67
All-Species Projects, 100
Alternatives (journal), 103
Amchitka atomic testing ground (Alaska), 130–31
America and the New Era (SDS), 32
American Indian Movement (AIM), 211–12
anarchism, 188–92; as critique of democratic principles, 310n65; deep ecology criticized by anarchists, 204–8; Earth First! and, 144–45, 159, 160–61, 164, 188, 189fig, 204–6 (see also Earth First!); Fifth Estate editors’ views, 197–98 (see also Fifth Estate); radical environmentalism and, 7, 144–45, 160–61, 188–92, 189fig, 233 (see also radical environmentalism); Rousseau and, 188, 331n15
Anarchy (magazine), 206. See also Chernyi, Lev
Ancient Forest Alliance, 243, 244
ancient forests. See forest protection; old-growth forests; Pacific Coast forests; redwoods; timber industry
Anderson, Eugene, 43, 44, 50
Anderson, Harold, 13
Andrus, Cecil, 140, 156
animal liberation movement, 105–6, 315n32
the Anthropocene, xii–xiii
anthropocentrism: vs. biocentrism/ecocentrism, xi, 97, 99–105, 313–14n21 (see also ecocentrism); Western grasslands neglected through, 171–72. See also conservation movement; human beings; nonhuman world (nature)
antiwar protests, 29–30
apocalyptic environmentalism. See crisis environmentalism
Argus (newspaper), 129
Arizona: EMETIC activities in (Arizona Five), 214–17, 229, 262; environmental threats to the Grand Canyon, 23–24, 57, 150, 213, 214, 298n31; fight over Black Mesa coal, 24, 209–13; uranium mining in, 213–15. See also Lake Powell
Arizona Five, 214–17, 229, 262. See also Davis, Mark; EMETIC
Army Corps of Engineers, 133
The Arrogance of Humanism (Ehrenfeld), 104–5, 314n30
Aspinall, Wayne, 21
Asplund, Ilse, 215, 216
Association of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, 178, 240
Association of Sierra Club Members for Environmental Ethics, 264. See also John Muir Sierrans
Atomic Energy Commission, 130–31
Audubon Society. See National Audubon Society
Austin Rag, 50
authoritarianism, 76, 77, 309n63, 310n65
Babbitt, Bruce, 269
Baden, John, 169, 171, 176–77
Bailey, Kathy, 256
Bailey, Ric, 137, 180, 243
Baker, Marc, 215–16, 262
Bald Mountain (Ore.), 136–37, 140, 163
Barber, David, 299n47
Bardacke, Frank, 47
Bari, Judi, 7, 219–21, 220fig, 339n116; alliance with loggers attempted, 219, 225–26, 228, 338n111; bombed and arrested, 229–30, 262, 339n121; on Foreman’s departure, 231; Redwood Summer event, 228–30, 233, 254; on sabotaging bulldozers, 232; and tree spiking, 221, 225–28
Barron, David, 176
Beezley, Julie, 268, 274
Berkeley, Calif., 44–48, 44fig. See also Ecology Action; People’s Park; University of California; wilderness conferences: of 1969
Berkeley Barb, 45, 45
Berkeley Tribe, 35, 47, 48
Berry, James, 234
Berry, Phil, 64–65, 72, 165, 285, 308n55
Berry, Wendell, 186
Biehl, Janet, 200
Big Green (Calif. Proposition 128), 253
Bikales, Gerda, 90–91
biocentrism: anthropocentrism vs., 97, 99–105, 313–14n21; defined, 2, 293n2. See also deep ecology; ecocentrism
biodiversity, 240–42, 254–55
bioregionalism, 161, 332n20
birth control, 78–80, 86, 88. See also population policy and politics
The Birth Control Handbook, 87
Black Mesa (Ariz.), 24, 209–13, 298n31
Black Mesa Defense Fund, 210–11
The Black Panther (newsletter/newspaper), 47
Black Panthers, 50–51, 87–88
BLM. See Bureau of Land Management
blockades: of Forest Service offices, 138–39; of mining equipment, 211–12; of Salt Creek oil drilling location, 161–62; of timber roads and logging equipment, 136–38, 140, 158, 221–22, 254; useless in rangeland activism, 173
Blueprint for Survival (Goldsmith, et al.), 68
Bonnie Abzug Feminist Garden Club, 222–23
Bookchin, Murray, 7, 51, 192–93, 332n21; on anthropocentric vs. non-anthropocentric environmentalism, 313n21; and Earth First!, 192–93, 195–98, 217, 233; humanism of, 200–202; on overpopulation as a social problem, 92; social ecology of, 51, 192–95, 200–203, 332–33n23, 333n27
Booth, Paul, 30
Bowden, Charles, 160
Bowers, Richard, 62, 80. See also Zero Population Growth
Boxer, Barbara, 255
BP Deepwater Horizon spill, xi–xii
Bradford, George. See Watson, David
Bradley, Harold, 17–18
Brand, Stewart, 64
Brandborg, Stewart, 65, 112, 116
Brooks, Paul, 36
Brothers, W. Robert (“Bobcat”), 176–78
Brower, David: and the Arizona Five, 217; as bridge between mainstream and radical environmental groups, 267; and Clinton, 267–68; on combining human self-interest with the interests of wildlife, 40–41; and dams, 20–25, 22fig, 123, 150, 268–69; development of wilderness areas opposed, 15–17, 20–25; Earth First! deemed vital, 280; and Eiseley, 39; essential points made by, 187–88; on freedom within limits of the natural world, 286; and the Headwaters Forest, 256; holism of, 63; on human beings as part of nature, 184; on the importance of wilderness, 125; Lampe’s letters to, 262; and Mineral King Valley, 97, 150; need to restrain human action espoused, 53; Newhall quoted, 180; and population policy and immigration, 64, 67, 276; progress, economic growth questioned, 24–26; as Sierra Club board member, 266, 267–69; as Sierra Club executive director, 11, 20, 26–27, 57, 58, 115; on Smokey Bear, 38; and TWP, 258; and the wilderness conferences, 38; and zero cut, 265. See also Sierra Club
Buddhist economics, 69. See also Schumacher, E. F.
Bullard, Robert, 271
Bunnell, Fred, 43, 44
Bureau of Land Management (BLM): authority, mandate and holdings, 148; Earth First!’s criticism of, 181; grazing fees/permits, 173; injunction against logging old growth on BLM lands, 245; jurisdiction over, 175; oil and gas drilling rights auction, 283; and the sagebrush rebellion, 143, 149–51 (see also sagebrush rebellion); and tree spiking, 224; wilderness review, 114
Bureau of Reclamation, 20–21, 23, 211, 344n98. See also dams; Department of the Interior
Bush administration, 279, 283
business. See capitalism; economic growth; industry; and specific corporations and industries
California: coastal commission, 36; Earth First! in, 134–36, 218, 219–22, 226, 228–29, 238, 247–57 (see also Bari, Judi; Earth First!); environmental ballot initiatives, 253; Hetch Hetchy Valley, 14, 123; immigration politics in, 274–76; Mineral King Valley, 97–100, 98fig, 150; Mount San Gorgonio resort, 15–16, 97, 99; New Melones Dam, 133; People’s Park, 44–48, 50–51, 303n108; power line tower sabotaged, 129; Proposition 128, 253; and RARE II (California v. Block), 119–20, 163; redwoods in, 236–39 (see also redwoods); Redwood Summer event, 228–30, 254; timber wars in, 247–58 (see also forest protection); tree spiking in, 222–23; Yosemite National Park, 14–15, 17–18, 257. See also Pacific Coast forests; University of California; and specific locations, organizations, and individuals
California Redwood Park, 238
California v. Block, 119–20, 163
Callicott, J. Baird, 105–6
Campbell, John, 250
Campbell, Molly, 137
Campus, Michael, 79
Canyon Under Siege, 213
capitalism: anarchists skeptical about, 197–98; in Bookchin’s thought, 193, 195, 197 (see also Bookchin, Murray); and climate change, 287; critiques of, 69–70; and environmentalism, 164–69; Lampe on phasing out, 85; ranchers and, 173 (see also ranchers and cattle ranching). See also consumption; economic growth; industry; the market; oil and gas drilling; private property; timber industry; and specific companies
Carson, Rachel, 27, 32, 193
Carter, Dick, 115
Carter, Jimmy, 109–10, 118, 156; Carter administration, 109–10, 117–18, 148, 167
Cathedral Forest Action Group (CFAG), 138, 225, 284
cattle. See grasslands; ranchers and cattle ranching
Catton, William, 198, 334n37, 334n37
Cellarius, Richard, 71–72
Central Arizona Project (CAP), 23–24, 210, 215, 216, 298n31. See also Black Mesa
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 287
Chavis, Benjamin, Rev., 273
Cherney, Darryl, 219, 229–30, 251, 255, 262, 339n121
Chernyi, Lev, 206–8
Chicago Tribune, 133
Christie, LaRue, 181
Citizens’ Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, 271
civil disobedience: activists arrested/prosecuted for, 138–39, 140–41, 284 (see also under radical environmentalism); blockades, 136–40, 158, 161–62, 173, 211–12, 221–22, 254; vs. ecotage, 221–22, 225–27 (see also sabotage, environmental); limits of, 161–62, 227; tree sitting, 139, 140, 221, 251–52, 256. See also direct action; and specific protests, organizations, and individuals
civilization: development of, in Bookchin’s thought, 194–95; and environmental damage/destruction (see crisis environmentalism; economic growth; human beings; progress)
Civil Rights Movement, 30–31, 154
Clark, John, 161
Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, 58
Clear Creek, 166
clear-cutting, 178, 240, 241–42, 246, 248, 249–50, 253. See also forest protection; timber industry
Cleaver, Eldridge, 50–51
climate change, xii, 8, 287–89
Climate Ground Zero, 289
Clinton, Bill, 247, 254, 264, 267–68, 279; Clinton administration, 255–56
Club of Rome, 68–69, 74
Clusen, Chuck, 110, 118
coal-fired power plants, 23–24, 209–10, 298n31. See also Black Mesa
coal mines, 209–11. See also Black Mesa
Cockburn, Alexander, 218–19
coercion, and environmental issues, 76–81, 87, 102, 309n63
Cohen, Lizabeth, 83
Cohen, Michael, 12, 38, 97, 165, 297n1, 301n80
Collins, Robert, 82–83, 93
Colorado River. See Colorado River Storage Project; Glen Canyon Dam; Grand Canyon; Lake Powell
Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP), 19–21. See also Glen Canyon Dam
Commentary, 147–48, 167
Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, 102
Committee for Nuclear Responsibility, 131
Commoner, Barry, 81–82, 103, 307n41
commons, tragedy of the, 40, 75–76, 92, 169. See also grasslands
compromise: dangers of, 187; and the Glen Canyon Dam, 21–23, 123; mainstream organizations’ acceptance of, 1, 61, 67, 93, 120 (see also lobbying, environmental; RARE II); politics as art of, 32; radical environmentalists’ rejection of, 6, 95, 120, 121, 124 (see also radical environmentalism)
Congress: 1970 campaigns, 54; and Alaskan public lands, 109–10; and ancient (old-growth) forests, 243; and the BLM, 149; environmental lobby and, 28, 56–58, 116; and forest roads, 176; Koehler on working with, 281; and the NREPA, 267; Oregon wilderness bill passed, 138; and population policy, 65, 86; and RARE II, 116–20; salvage logging rider passed, 254, 264; “superfund” toxic cleanup act weakened, 167; temporary ban overturned, 162; and the Wilderness Act, 111. See also specific acts and individuals
conservation biology, 235, 239–47, 252, 255, 259–61, 266, 279. See also forest protection: timber wars; NREPA; old-growth forests; spotted owls; the Wildlands Project
conservation movement: amateur/philanthropic tradition in, 12–13; anthropocentrism of, 104 (see also anthropocentrism); balancing public appeal vs. public impact, 16–17, 18, 19; Brower on, 25–26; conservatism and, 146–47; democracy and, 25–26; ecological/evolutionary turn, 38–41; environmentalism and, 27 (see also environmentalism: emergence of); limits of, 24; and the New Left in the San Francisco Bay Area, 42–44; and overpopulation, 38, 63, 64–65 (see also population policy and politics); Sierra Club at center of, 11 (see also Sierra Club); working within the system, 36–37
conservatism (political), 143–49, 181. See also New Right; Republican Party; and specific administrations and individuals
consumption, 15, 69–70, 82–85, 93, 275, 277, 287–88, 311n80. See also economic growth
cooperation, 191, 331n18. See also natural order
Cope, Janet, 251–52
Coppelman, Peter, 124
Council on Environmental Quality, 58
Council on Population & Environment, 88–89
cowboy, myth of, 172–73
crisis environmentalism: and authoritarianism, 76–77, 169, 309n63, 310n65; crisis and survival, 71–74, 77, 87–88, 308n55; critiques of, 102–3; and democracy, 74–77, 190; ecocentrism and, 100–101 (see also ecocentrism); economic growth criticized by, 70–71, 84 (see also economic growth); ideas and history of, x–xi, 66–71, 92–94, 307nn40–41; overlap between radical environmentalism and, 196–97; and population fears/policy, 68, 70–71, 84–92, 196–97 (see also population policy and politics; Zero Population Growth); as term, 307n41; wilderness degradation as sign/cause of environmental disaster, 125. See also ecocentrism; radical environmentalism
Cronon, William, viii, xi, xiii–xiv, 126, 183, 185, 198, 278-279
Crowder, George, 161, 191
Cunningham, Bill, 127
Dahl, Robert, 310n65
Daly, Herman, 69, 70, 168, 307n41
Daly, Mary, 200
dams, 123; dam removal, 268–69; Glen Canyon Dam, 20, 21–23, 24–25, 123–24, 268–69; New Melones Dam, 133; proposed for Grand Canyon, 23–24, 57, 298n31; proposed in Dinosaur National Monument (Echo Park), 19–21, 57; Tuolumne River (Hetch Hetchy Valley), 14, 123. See also water
Davies, Jeremy, 288
Davis, John, 258, 262, 278
Davis, Kingsley, 78
Davis, Mark, 215–17, 262, 267
DeBell, Garrett, 84–85
DeBonis, Jeff, 240, 280
DeChristopher, Tim, 283–84
deep ecology: Bookchin vs., 192, 195–96, 198–203; conflated with mainstream environmentalism, 165; criticisms and responses, 102–4, 195–96, 198, 199–201, 204–9; defined, and core principles, 2, 96–97, 101–2; ethical dilemmas of, 102–6, 202–9; reason for rise of, 313–14n21. See also ecocentrism
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered (Devall and Sessions), 102
Delacour, Mike, 45
democracy: Abbey on the breakdown of, 222; anarchist critique of, 188–90; antidemocratic “coercion,” 76–81, 87, 102; Brower on democracy, development, and wilderness, 16–17, 25–26; crisis environmentalism’s critique of, 74–77, 92–93, 309n63, 309–10n65 (see also crisis environmentalism); environmentalists’ questioning of, 55, 190; limits of, 7, 74–75, 92–93; need for compromise in, 61; New Left and, 31–32, 299n47; Sierra Club’s democratic goals, 13, 15–17
Democratic National Convention (1968), 34
Department of the Interior: and Alaskan public lands, 109 (see also Alaska); and the Central Arizona Project, 23–24, 210; and dam construction, 19–21, 23 (see also dams); environmentalists’ criticism of, 150; during the Nixon administration, 59; Salt Creek opened to oil drilling, 162 (see also Salt Creek Wilderness); Watt as head of, 154–56, 157fig, 174–75. See also Bureau of Land Management; Bureau of Reclamation; National Park Service
desert, American, 122–23
Desert Solitaire (Abbey), 187, 234. See also Abbey, Edward
Despite Everything (magazine), 50, 303n121
Devall, Bill, 102, 124, 140, 196, 197, 286
Dinosaur National Monument, 19–21, 57
direct action: activists arrested/prosecuted for, 138–39, 140–41, 214–17, 284 (see also under radical environmentalism); anarchism and, 190; blockades, 136–40, 158, 161–62, 173, 211–12, 221–22, 254; by Earth First!, 128, 134–42, 158–59, 161–62, 164, 176, 213–15, 221–28, 248, 252–56 (see also Earth First!); by EMETIC, 215–17 (see also EMETIC); environmental sabotage, before Earth Day, 129, 319n107 (see also sabotage, environmental); by Greenpeace, 130–32; preferred by radical environmentalists, 2, 95, 96, 128–42, 190; tree sitting, 139, 140, 221, 251–52, 256; tree spiking, 1–2, 221–28, 338nn98, 101. See also specific organizations, locations, and individuals
Disney corporation (Walt Disney, Inc.), 97–98. See also Mineral King Valley
Dombeck, Mike, 279
Don’t Make a Wave Committee, 130–32. See also Greenpeace
Douglas, William O., 100
Drake, Brian, 168
Drengson, Alan, 102
Drury, Newton, 20
Dubois, Mark, 133
Dugelby, Barbara, 258
Dumping in Dixie (Bullard), 271
Dwyer, William (Judge), 246
Earth Day, 28, 35; and environment lobbying, 56–57, 60, 62, 66; New Left’s criticism of, 35; Sierra Club and, 36; tenth-anniversary stock-taking, 152–53. See also Nelson, Gaylord
Earth First!: Abbey and, 121–22, 124, 185 (see also Abbey, Edward); and anarchism, 144–45, 159, 160–61, 188, 189fig, 204–6 (see also anarchism); Arizona Five arrests and trial, 214–17, 229; Bookchin vs., 192–93, 195–98, 201–3; and the California timber wars, 247–56; coexistence of wildness and human civilization advocated, 260; and conservation biology, 235, 252 (see also conservation biology); contradictory approaches of, 162–64, 173–74, 181; core principles, 6–7, 107, 120–22, 125–26, 139, 141, 183, 199; criticism of, 7, 126, 139–42, 185, 200, 204–5; direct action by, 128, 134–42, 158–59, 161–62, 164, 176, 213–15, 221–28, 248, 252–56; divisions within, 183, 185, 203–6, 218–28, 230–33; ecocentrism of, 6–7, 124–26, 174, 183–85, 232, 235, 314n21 (see also ecocentrism); and EMETIC, 214–17; vs. the Forest Service, 107, 174–79, 181, 245, 247 (see also forest protection; and specific protest locations); and Glen Canyon Dam, 123–24; government criticized, 152; on the human-nonhuman relationship, 107, 125–26, 139, 184–85, 199, 202, 233–34; importance and legacy of, 261–64; influence of, 96, 262–64, 279–81 (see also specific organizations); and James Watt, 156; mainstream organizations criticized, 6, 124, 156–58, 162, 247; and market relationships, 145; membership (following), 203; and Native peoples, 211, 212–13; and the New Right, 145; Nomadic Action Group formed, 140; origins of, 6, 120–22, 122fig, 141; and the purchase of private lands, 248–49, 257 (see also Sally Bell Grove); rangeland activism, 169–74; on Republicans’ attempts to discredit them, 165; rewilding advocated, 127–28; Round River Rendezvous, 158, 180, 204, 215, 216, 234; on the sagebrush rebellion, 151; and social issues, 7, 183, 196, 202–5, 219, 231, 232 (see also Bari, Judi); state-by-state strategy criticized, 163; supporters’ zeal, 95; traditional and radical strategies both used, 163–65; and tree spiking, 221–28, 338n98; wilderness politics before, 106–20 (see also wilderness preservation); wilderness preservation the primary goal of, 124–26; women in, 221. See also crisis environmentalism; direct action; radical environmentalism; and specific individuals
Earth First! Journal, 312n1; Bookchin’s criticism of articles in, 196; on carrying on the fight, 217; on dissension within the Forest Service, 240; on divisions within Earth First!, 230; Forest Service critiqued, 177; on grazing on public lands, 171; mainstream organizations criticized, 247, 264; one reader’s enthusiasm, 95; responses to Alien-Nation, 204–5; on the sagebrush rebellion, 151; sample appeals form published, 163; Schmookler on government as paradox, 159; scientific research reported, 241; and zero cut, 265
Earth First! v. Block, 163. See also Bald Mountain
Earth Island Institute, 254
Earth Liberation Front (ELF), 228
Earth Read-Out (Lampe newsletter/column), 42. See also Lampe, Keith
Eber, Ron, 36
Eckersley, Robyn, 201
ecocentrism, 96–106; alternate terms for, 2, 96, 293n2; anthropocentrism vs., 97, 99–105, 313–14n21; and crisis environmentalism, 100–101; critiques of, 103–4, 314n28; defined, and core principles, x–xi, 2, 6, 96–97, 101–2, 278, 288–89, 293n2; of Earth First!, 6–7, 124–26, 174, 183–85, 232, 235, 314n21 (see also Earth First!); embraced by radical environmentalists, 151 (see also radical environmentalism); history of ecocentric thought, 101–6, 313–14n21; holism a risk of, 6–7, 183–85, 232–33 (see also holism); Sierra Club and, 97–99, 102; wilderness and ecocentric thought, 125. See also biocentrism; deep ecology
Eco-Commando Force ’70, 129, 319n107
Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching (Foreman and Haywood), 222
ecofeminism, 199–200, 221. See also women’s movement
eco-guerrilla movement, 129. See also direct action
Eco-Liberation Front, 48
ecology. See conservation biology; conservation movement; deep ecology; environmentalism; social ecology
Ecology Action, 43–44, 48–50, 66, 85, 193. See also People’s Park
Ecology Action East, 193
“Ecology and Revolutionary Thought” (Bookchin), 192. See also Bookchin, Murray
The Ecology of Freedom (Bookchin), 193–94, 201
economic growth: critiqued/questioned, 25, 55, 68–70, 83–84, 93, 165; growth liberalism, 4, 82–83, 93, 287, 311n80; as imperative, 82–83, 167; steady-state economy as alternative to, 69, 307n41. See also capitalism; consumption; industrialization; industry; the market
ecosystem management, 246–47. See also Forest Service, U.S.
ecosystem protection. See also forest protection; wilderness preservation
ecotage. See sabotage, environmental
Ecotopia Earth First!, 219–21, 225–30. See also Bari, Judi
ecotopianism, of Lampe, 49, 85. See also Lampe, Keith
Edge, Rosalie, 13
Ehrenfeld, David, 104–5, 125, 241, 314n30
Ehrlich, Anne, 67–68, 276. See also The Population Bomb
Ehrlich, Paul: at the biodiversity forum, 241; critiques of, 81, 84, 88, 103, 197, 307n41, 310n77; and immigration and population politics, 91, 276; ’“Nature bats last,” 180; on overpopulation and crisis, 40, 41, 67–68; The Population Bomb, 63, 67–68, 73, 87, 309n58, 310n77; and race and population politics, 87, 88, 89; and Stanford, 72–73, 309n60; and ZPG, 78, 78
Eiseley, Loren, 39
EMETIC (Evan Mecham Eco-Terrorist International Conspiracy), 214–17, 267. See also Arizona Five
Endangered Species Act (ESA), 58, 246–47, 256
Energy Fuels Nuclear, 213, 214, 215
Environmental Action (organization), 55, 319n107
environmental crisis. See crisis environmentalism
The Environmental Handbook (DeBell, ed.), 84–85
environmental impact statements (EIS), 58, 98–99, 111, 131
environmentalism: and the 1970 Congressional campaigns, 54; anarchism and, 161 (see also anarchism); in the Anthropocene, xii–xiii; anthropocentrism of mainstream environmentalism, 102–5, 171–72 (see also anthropocentrism); anti-environmentalists criticized, 149–50; anti-Watt campaign, 154–56; backlash against (see sagebrush rebellion); Bookchin’s criticism of, 195 (see also Bookchin, Murray); call for humility, restraint, and connectedness at heart of, 286; capitalism and, 164–69; concept of collective humanity in, 80–82; connections between mainstream and radical environmentalism, 236, 262–69, 279–81, 284–86 (see also specific organizations and topics); conservation and, 27, 52 (see also Sierra Club); conservatism and, 145–48, 165; and the “cultural turn,” viii–x; as distraction from social problems, 28; and economic growth, consumption, and capitalism, 55, 83–85, 93, 165–69 (see also capitalism; consumption; economic growth); emergence of, 52–53; and Forest Service reform, 178–79 (see also Forest Service, U.S.); fundamental philosophical debates within, 7 (see also democracy: limits of; individual freedom: limits of; the market); and holism (see holism); humanism vs., 2–3; ignored/disparaged by New Left and SDS, 29, 32–33, 34–35, 43, 300n53; and immigration, 90–91, 236, 273–77 (see also immigration); and laissez-faire economics, 179–80, 329n107; and Left/Right politics, 143–45; limits as central concern of, 3, 55–56; lobbying by environmental organizations, 56–58, 60–61, 95, 109–10, 113, 115–16; mainstream groups criticized by radicals, 6, 95–96, 119, 124, 142, 156–58, 162, 247; mainstream groups criticized from within, 263–64; modern society questioned by, 55–56, 262–63; momentum declining, in 1980, 152–53, 324–25n23; and Native sovereignty in the Southwest, 209–14, 215; and the New Left, 28–29, 42–44, 48–49 (see also New Left; People’s Park); optimism, 7–8; organizations’ relationship with the federal government, 58–62, 150–53, 159–60, 182; and population issues/politics, 62–66, 80–81, 83–84 (see also population policy and politics); primary concerns of, 27; professionalization of environmental groups, 57, 60–61, 115–16, 151; and the sagebrush rebellion, 149–51; skepticism central to, 7–8; and social ecology, 51–52 (see also social ecology); and social justice, 29, 34–35, 103, 203, 236, 271, 307n41 (see also social justice); state power’s effectiveness questioned, 144; tensions between liberalism and, 3–5, 293–94n3, 294n4 (see also growth liberalism; individual freedom; liberal humanism); traditional cultures esteemed, 191–92, 209, 212 (see also Native Americans). See also crisis environmentalism; radical environmentalism; Sierra Club
environmental justice movement, 271–73. See also social justice
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 36, 58, 167
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), 248–49, 252–55
environmental regulation: Endangered Species Act (ESA), 58, 246–47, 256; environmental impact statements (EIS), 58, 98–99, 111, 131; EPA, 36, 58, 167; Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), 148, 150 (see also Bureau of Land Management); industry opposition to, 55, 165–67 (see also industry); National Forest Management Act (NFMA), 243–44; during the Nixon administration, 58–60, 167–68, 305n13; during the Reagan administration, 154; salvage logging rider and, 254, 264, 268. See also lobbying, environmental; National Environmental Policy Act; and specific agencies and federal laws
Environmental Study Conference, 117
EPA. See Environmental Protection Agency
EPIC. See Environmental Protection Information Center
Evans, Brock: on the benefits of compromise, 61; on Earth First!, 224, 280, 280; on the failure of the regulatory approach, 153, 165; and the RARE II campaign, 116; and the sagebrush rebellion, 172; on the Sierra Club’s influence, 56; on the environmental movement at the end of the 1970s, 153, 154; on the spiritual and aesthetic aspects of forests, 261; on whether environmentalists should be revolutionaries, 41
evolution, 39, 200–201
Fain, Mike (“Mike Tait”), 216
Farmer, Jared, 238
Farquhar, Marjory, 13
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 214, 216, 223, 229–30, 339n121
Featherstone, Roger, 122fig, 161, 213
federal government: and Alaskan public lands, 109–10; conservative views on federal power, 147–48; corporate influences, 165–66; EMETIC and Earth First! activists arrested and prosecuted, 216–17 (see also Arizona Five); environmental organizations’ relationship with, 58–62, 150–53, 159–60, 181–82 (see also lobbying, environmental); and the purchase of private lands for conservation, 256–57; skepticism and distrust of, 144, 151–52, 158–61 (see also anarchism); Westerners’ relationship with, 143, 145, 148, 323n12 (see also sagebrush rebellion). See also Congress; environmental regulations; Supreme Court; and specific departments, agencies, administrations, and individuals
Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), 148, 150. See also Bureau of Land Management
Federal Lobbying Act (1946), 57
Feinstein, Dianne, 255, 256
feminism. See gender equality; women’s movement
Ferguson, Denzel and Nancy, 171, 172, 173, 280
Fifth Estate (anarchist newspaper), 34–35, 197–98, 206, 217, 232, 233
fire, and forest health, 38
Fish & Wildlife Service, U.S., 162, 175, 245
Flateboe, Connie, 35–36
Flippen, J. Brooks, 305n13
FOE. See Friends of the Earth
FOR (Friends of the River), 133
foreign aid, 196, 285
Foreman, Dave, 135fig, 189fig, 220fig; in Abbey’s Hayduke Lives!, 234; arrested by FBI, 216–17; on biodiversity, 241; on bioreligionism, 332n20; and Black Mesa, 211; Bookchin vs., 192, 195–96; on Clinton-era roadless area management reform, 279; departure from Earth First!, 231; direct action defended, 142, 151; Earth First! founded, 120, 122fig, 185; on the effectiveness of traditional methods, 163–64; on the Glen Canyon Dam, 124; on green anarchists, 208; on human limits, 180; on the human-nonhuman relationship, 199; on immigration and foreign aid, 196, 276, 285; interviewed by author, xvi; on James Watt, 156; on mainstream environmental groups, 162, 164; on the need for criticism, 183; on O’Toole’s critique of the Forest Service, 177; on radicalizing the environmental movement, 133–34; on ranching, 172, 173; on relations with Native Americans, 213; and the rifts within Earth First!, 205–6; on Russell Means, 192; as Sierra Club board member, 266; ’on tree spiking, 222, 227; and TWP, 258, 260–261; violence against, 137; on wilderness preservation, 125; and the Wilderness Society, 115–16, 119, 120; and zero cut, 265
forest protection: ancient (old-growth) forests, 236–39, 242–57, 265; salvage logging rider detrimental to, 254, 264; science and, 239–44; spotted owls and, 243–47, 252; zero cut policy, 263–66. See also litigation; Pacific Coast forests; wilderness preservation
forestry practices: clear-cutting, 178, 240–42, 246, 248–50, 253; fire and forest health, 38; forest reform, 178; selective cut and sustained yield, 249–50, 252; traditional, 239–40. See also Forest Service, U.S.; timber industry
forests. See forest protection; forestry practices; Forest Service, U.S.; Pacific Coast forests; redwoods; timber industry; wilderness; wilderness preservation
Forest Service, U.S.: author’s experience with, vii–viii; dissension within, 175, 178, 240; Earth First! vs., 107, 174–79, 181, 245, 247 (see also specific protest locations); ecosystem management, 246–47; grazing fees, 127, 173; jurisdiction over, 175; and Mineral King Valley, 98–99 (see also Mineral King Valley); and mining, 213; multiple-use mandate, 99, 111, 150, 177–78; studied, 242; and Oregon lands, 136–38, 140; and “purity policies,” 127; and RARE I, 111; and RARE II, 107, 110–12, 116–19, 316n49 (see also RARE II); roadbuilding “binge,” 175; roadless area management, vii–viii, 279; Sierra Club and, 17–18, 176; slow reform of, 178–79; Smokey Bear mascot, 38, 41, 302n92; and spotted owls, 243–47; and the timber industry, 111–12, 120, 136, 138, 177–78, 240, 242 (see also timber industry); traditional vs. ecological forestry, 239–40; and tree spiking, 222, 223, 225
Forests Forever (Calif. Proposition 130), 253
Forrester, Jay, 73–74
fossil fuels, 25, 287–88. See also Black Mesa (Arizona); coal-fired power plants; oil and gas drilling
the Fox (ecoguerilla), 129
Fox, Stephen, 12, 13, 20, 23–24, 313–14n21
Frampton, George, 244, 338n101
Franklin, Jerry, 240, 253
freedom. See individual freedom
free-market environmentalism, 167–74, 176–77, 179–80, 249–50
free trade, 267–68, 276
Friedman, Mitch, 205, 241, 243, 258, 259, 261
Friends of the Earth (FOE): and the Alaskan wilderness, 109, 114, 127; and the Bari investigation, 230; criticized by Earth First!, 124; Friends of the Earth-Canada, 103; growth of, 60; newsletter name, 286; and RARE II, 114, 118; and ZPG, 64
Friends of the River (FOR), 133
Futrell, William, 61
future, predictions of, 40, 67–68, 72–74, 309n58. See also crisis environmentalism; The Population Bomb; population policy and politics
Gadsden Flag, 189fig
Gasquet-Orleans (G-O) Road (Calif.), 136
GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), 267–68
gender equality, 85–86, 199–200. See also women’s movement
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. See GATT
Georgia-Pacific (G-P), 228, 248
Getty Oil, 158–59, 159fig
Ghosh, Amitav, 287–88
Ginsberg, Alan, 49
Gitlin, Todd, 29, 33, 49, 300n52
Glen Canyon Dam, 20, 21–23, 22fig, 24–25, 123–24, 268–69
Godwin, William, 331n18
Gold, Lou, 140
Goldwater, Barry, 144, 146
Gulf Coast Tenant Leadership Development Project, 272
Goodtimes, Art, 209
Gossage, Howard, 23
Gosse, Van, 299n47
Gould, Stephen Jay, 234, 241
government (generally): anarchist view of, 188–89, 191 (see also anarchism); Schmookler on, 159, 160–61, 163. See also Congress; democracy; federal government; and specific federal departments and agencies, administrations, and states
Grand Canyon, threats to, 23–24, 57, 150, 213, 214, 298n31
grasslands: grazing permits and fees, 127, 170, 173–74; overgrazing and protection of, 150, 169–74; zero cud initiative, 266. See also ranchers and cattle ranching
grassroots activism: appeal of, 190; and California ballot initiatives, 253; and environmental justice, 272; environmental movement’s shift to professionalism from, 60–61, 115–16 (see also professionalization of environmental groups); fervor/dedication of activists, 96; limits of, 161–62; as one of two strains of environmentalism, 102; SDS and, 32; and the Sierra Club, 236, 243, 262, 266–67; and Watt’s agenda, 154–55, 162; Wilderness Society and, 112, 113–14, 120, 243, 280–81; and zero cut, 264. See also civil disobedience; direct action; radical environmentalism; and specific groups and individuals
Gray, John, 180
The Greening of America (Reich), 28–29
Greenpeace, 129–32, 138, 230, 289, 312n3. See also Hunter, Robert
growth liberalism, 4, 82–83, 93, 287, 311n80. See also consumption; economic growth
Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), 256
habitat destruction. See Habitat Conservation Plans; spotted owls
Hanson, Chad, 264–65
Hardin, Garrett, 40, 75–76, 80, 92, 169, 273, 307n41
Hargrove, Eugene, 141–42
Harpers Ferry conference, 153, 154, 165
Harry (newspaper), 129
Hatch, Orrin, 149
Hatfield, Mark, 136, 180, 246
Havasupai people, 213
Hayden, Tom, 30, 31, 47, 101
Hayduke Lives! (Abbey), 185, 234. See also Abbey, Edward
Hayek, Friedrich, 180, 329n108
Hays, Samuel, 87, 240, 295n9
Haywood, Bill, 222
Headwaters Forest (Calif.), 251–57. See also forest protection: timber wars
Heartwood (organization), 263
Heath, Brian, 225
Heilbroner, Robert, 77, 310n65
Herber, Lewis. See Bookchin, Murray
Hermach, Tim, 263, 265, 268
Herrick, Chuck, 42–44
Herschler, Ed, 158
Hetch Hetchy Valley, 14, 123
Heyns, Roger, 46
Hickel, Walter, 59
hierarchy, Bookchin on, 193–95
Hill, Gladwin, 54
Hirt, Paul, 240
Hoagland, Edward, 186
Hobbes, Thomas, 76
Hoff, Derek, 68, 83, 88
holism, xi, 285; of crisis environmentalism, 80–81, 93, 196–97; defined, xi; ecocentrism and, 6–7, 183–85, 232–33; of Ecology Action, 44; human beings and nonhuman nature viewed as mutually exclusive, 183–85; in light of climate change, 286–88; and overpopulation concerns, 63, 196–97 (see also population policy and politics); social and cultural differences ignored by, xi, 34, 81–82, 184, 232; as strength and weakness of environmentalism, 34, 50, 232; of ZPG, 80, 197
Hoosier National Forest, 263
Hopi people, 191–92, 209–11, 215. See also Native Americans
How Deep Is Deep Ecology? (Bradford), 198
human beings: Abbey on relationship to nature of, 234 (see also Abbey, Edward); Bookchin on relationship to nature of, 193–95, 200–202 (see also social ecology); crisis environmentalism’s emphasis on, 72 (see also crisis environmentalism); debates over relationship to nonhuman world (generally), 7, 198–99, 202–9, 233–34; Earth First! on the human-nonhuman relationship, 107, 125–26, 139, 184–85, 199, 202, 233–34; nonhuman world (nature) valued equally with, x, 39, 96–97, 101, 104–5, 107; in opposition to the nonhuman world, xi, 40–41, 94, 103, 183–85, 198–99, 202, 208–9, 217, 233–34, 271 (see also crisis environmentalism; ecocentrism; holism); as part of/related to the nonhuman world, 103–4, 184–85, 200–202, 206–9, 233–34, 286; role of, in deep ecology, 103–4 (see also deep ecology); Sierra Club’s increasingly critical view of, 39–41, 301n80; women associated with nature, 194, 199–200. See also anthropocentrism; humanism; liberal humanism; misanthropy; social justice
Human Events, 147
humanism: of Bookchin, 200–202 (see also Bookchin, Murray); critiques of, 314–15n30; Ehrenfeld’s critique of, 104–5, 125, 314–15n30; environmentalism framed as, 102–3; environmentalism vs., 2–3; of the New Left, 32. See also anthropocentrism; liberal humanism
humility, 4, 286, 288–89
Humphrey, Cliff, 42–43, 44, 55, 66, 70–71
Humphrey, Mary, 43
Hunter, Celia, 113, 115, 116
Hunter, Robert, 132, 133
Hurwitz, Charles, 250–51, 255, 257. See also Pacific Lumber
hydroelectric power. See dams
immigration, 90–91, 196, 204, 236, 273–77. See also population policy and politics
individual freedom: anarchism and, 188–89, 332n18; cowboy myth, 172–73; crisis environmentalists’ questioning of, 40, 75–76, 309n63; culturally entrenched, 77; environmental activists’ questioning of, 55–56, 80; environmental concerns vs., 3, 55–56, 287 (see also coercion and environmental issues); Hayek’s questioning of, 180; limits of, 7; New Left and, 31–32, 33; ZPG’s questioning of, 78–80, 82. See also liberal individualism; liberalism; libertarianism
individualism. See liberal individualism
industrialism, Catton on, 334n37
industrialization: critiques of, 70, 187; industrial infrastructure, 122–23, 209–13, 214–15; industrial pollution, 210, 271–72 (see also pollution); Means on nature’s revolt against, 192; Western water infrastructure, 122–23 (see also dams). See also economic growth; industry; progress
industry, 55, 68, 155–56, 165–67. See also mining; oil and gas drilling; ranchers and cattle ranching; timber industry; and specific corporations
IRS (Internal Revenue Service), 57–58
Jackson, Henry, 58
Jacobs, Lynn, 172
Jacobs, Meg, 311n80
Jakubal, Mikal, 139, 205–8, 232
Jeffers, Robinson, 286, 301n80
John Muir Sierrans, 264–66. See also Association of Sierra Club Members for Environmental Ethics
Johns, David, 259, 276
Johnson, Huey, 119, 163
Johnson, Lewis, 212–13
Johnson, M. Bruce, 179
Joll, James, 331n15
The Journey Home (Abbey), 123. See also Abbey, Edward
Kalmiopsis Wilderness and Bald Mountain (Ore.), 136–37, 140
Katznelson, Ira, 309n61
Kazin, Michael, 300n53
Kent, William, 238
Kezar, Ron, 121–22, 122fig
King, Greg, 251–52
King, Ynestra, 199
Kirk, Andrew, 295n9
Klein, Naomi, 8
Koehler, Bart, 114–15, 121–22, 122fig, 135fig, 158, 280–81; interviewed by author, xv
Kornhauser, Anne, 309n61
Kropotkin, Peter, 331n18
Kunofsky, Judy, 65
Kuper, Alan, 275, 276
Kysar, Douglas, 293n3
laissez-faire economics, 179–80, 329n107
Lake Powell (Utah; Ariz.), 123, 268–69. See also Glen Canyon Dam
Lampe, Keith, 41, 47–49, 85, 89, 100–101, 262
land ethic: vs. animal liberation, 105–6, 315n32; calls for, 24, 99
land management, large-scale, 258–61. See also the Wildlands Project
land trusts, 257–58. See also private property
Langsenkamp, Bob, 114
Lanman, Cecelia, 252–53
Lappé, Frances Moore, 103
Lawhorn, Gene, 226
Leahy, Patrick, 246
Lease, Gary, 278
Lee, Katie, 268, 270fig
Leonard, Richard, 13, 15, 17–18, 19–20, 26
Leopold, Aldo: democratic justification for wilderness preservation, 108; and ecological thought, 62, 101; as hunter, 105, 315n32; on living in a wounded world, 128; on private property, 169; A Sand County Almanac, 24, 44
Lewis, Martin, 294n4
Li, Vivian, 274
liberal humanism, 4, 31–34, 103–6, 294n4. See also humanism
liberal individualism, 3, 31–32, 105–6, 179–80, 293n3. See also individual freedom
liberalism, 3–5, 28–29, 80–91, 143–44, 191, 287. See also growth liberalism; liberal humanism; liberal individualism; New Left; Zero Population Growth
libertarianism, 168, 179–80, 181, 204, 329n107. See also free-market environmentalism
Libertarian Review, 168
The Limits to Growth (Meadows, et al.), 68, 101
litigation: administrative appeals, 163; Amchitka atomic bomb tests and, 130–31; environmental agenda advanced through, 55, 59–60; legal arguments used by sagebrush rebels, 323–24n13; over Pacific Coast forests, 137, 138, 243–47, 248, 252–53, 255; over RARE I and II, 111, 119–20; by the Sierra Club, 98–100, 111, 137
Little Granite Creek (Wyo.), 158–59, 159fig
Litton, Martin, 27, 268
Livermore, Norman, 37
Live Wild or Die (zine), 205–6, 207fig
Living Creatures Associates, 100
lobbying, environmental, 56–58, 60–61, 95, 109–10, 113, 115–16, 117. See also specific organizations and issues
local autonomy, as ecocentric principal, 101–2
Locke, Harvey, 260
Loeffler, Jack, 210–11, 214
“Lone Wolf Circles” (pseud.), 204–8
Loomis, Erik, 245
Los Angeles Times, 40, 152, 167, 224, 268
Louisiana-Pacific (L-P), 248
Luten, Daniel, 40, 43, 64
MacDougal, Philip, 50, 51, 303n121
MacPherson, C. B., 293n3
Mahler, Andy, 263
Mahoney, Tim, 115, 118
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge (Ore.), 171
Malthus, Thomas, 62, 67
Managing the Commons (Hardin and Baden), 169
Mander, Jerry, 23, 101, 166, 211
Manes, Christopher (“Miss Ann Thropy”), 196, 202, 333n30
the market: Earth First! and market relationships, 145; environmentalists’ skepticism toward, 164; free-market environmentalism, 167–74, 176–77, 179–80, 249–50; free-trade policies, 267–68, 276; as regulating force, 179–80, 329n108; solutions to environmental problems through, 7–8. See also private property
Marris, Emma, 126
Marshall, Robert, 108
materialism, critique of, 69–70. See also consumption; economic growth
Mather, Stephen, 17–18, 257
Maxxam, 250–51, 252. See also Pacific Lumber
McCloskey, Michael: on the environmental movement, 28, 52–53; and environmental politics, 28, 56, 61–62, 95, 305n22; on the industrial backlash, 166; refusal to talk about Earth First!, 140; on the shift to managerial executives, 115; and Sierra Club priorities, 27; on the value of natural environment, 99; and wilderness preservation, 107, 111
McComb, John, 298n31
McGirr, Lisa, 329n107
McKibben, Bill, 275
Meadows, Donella and Dennis, 68, 74, 309n60
Means, Russell, 192
Merritt, Clif, 112–13, 115
middle class, 15, 42, 84, 88, 89, 126, 295n9. See also consumption; economic growth; outdoor recreation
Middle Santiam Wilderness (Ore.), 138–39, 284
Miller, James, 299n47
Millet, Peg, 215–16, 262
Mills, Stephanie, 63–64, 180
Mineral King Valley (Calif.), 97–100, 98fig, 150
mining, 210, 212, 213, 289. See also Black Mesa
misanthropy: Earth First! and, 7, 141, 184, 196, 202, 204; and environmentalism generally, 106, 285–86. See also holism; human beings; immigration; population policy and politics; social justice
“Miss Ann Thropy,” 196, 333n30
Mobil Oil, 155, xi
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Abbey), 121–22, 129, 141, 185, 269. See also Abbey, Edward
monkeywrenching. See Earth First!; sabotage, environmental
Montana Earth First!, 224–25
Montana Wilderness Act (1984), 124
Moorman, James, 130–31
Morton, Nancy, 122fig, 231
Muir, John: Abbey contrasted with, 186; on Alaska, 108; battles with Pinchot, 13; death, 14; and ecocentric philosophy, 101; forest fires opposed, 38; on interconnectedness, 244; as Sierra Club’s first president, 12; and the Yosemite Valley, 15
Muir Woods National Monument (Calif.), 238–39, 257
Mumford, George, 84–85
Mumma, John, 240
Murie, Olaus, 108, 126
Muskie, Edmund, 55–56
Naess, Arne, 101–2, 103–4, 106, 313–14n21
NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), 267–68, 276
Nash, Roderick, 295n9
National Audubon Society: and the Alaskan wilderness, 109; and ancient forests and spotted owls, 243, 244–45; and the Bari investigation, 230; criticized by Earth First!, 124, 162; Echo Park dam opposed, 20; and immigration, 275; lobbying by, 58. See also Evans, Brock
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 1969), 27, 58; embraced by environmentalists, 58–59, 61, 93, 98; Forest Service and, 98, 111; industry concerns about, 166–67; and RARE II, 119; and spotted owls, 243, 245. See also environmental impact statements
National Forest Management Act (NFMA), 243–44
national forests. See forest protection; Forest Service, U.S.; public lands; wilderness preservation; and specific national forests and locations
National Green Gathering (Amherst, 1987), 195–96
National Industrial Pollution Control Council, 167–68
National Journal, 60–61
National Parks and Conservation Association, 20, 90–91, 109
National Park Service, 17–18, 20–21, 175, 187. See also specific parks and monuments
National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, 272
National Review, 146
Native Americans: and Alaskan lands, 109, 127; and ecocentric philosophy, 101; environmentalism and Native sovereignty, 209–14, 215, 336n67; esteemed/romanticized by environmentalists, 191–92, 209, 212; fire’s role in forest health recognized, 38; and Georgia-Pacific, 249; TWP and, 276–77
Native Forest Council, 263
natural order, 190–92, 200, 201, 331–32n18
natural resources, depletion of, 68, 70. See also mining; oil and gas drilling; timber industry; water
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 59, 60, 119, 124, 253
nature. See nonhuman world; wilderness
Nature’s Metropolis (Cronon), ix
Navajo people, 24, 209–12, 213, 215. See also Native Americans
Nearing, Mary Beth, 225
necessity defense, 283–84
Needham, Andrew, 211, 212
Nelson, Gaylord, 177, 275
neoconservatives, 147. See also conservatism; New Right; and specific administrations
NEPA. See National Environmental Policy Act
New Age (periodical), 133
Newhall, Nancy, 180
New Left, 29, 299n47; Bookchin and, 51, 192 (see also Bookchin, Murray); and the Civil Rights Movement, 30–31; and conservationism and environmentalism in the Bay area, 42–44, 48–49 (see also People’s Park); environmentalism ignored/disparaged, 29, 32–35, 43, 300n53; environmentalism supported, 28, 48–49; and population politics, 35, 81; radical, antiestablishment turn, 33–35; SDS and, 29–33. See also social justice; Students for a Democratic Society; and specific individuals
New Left Notes (SDS newsletter), 32–33, 47, 81, 310n77
New Melones Dam (Calif.), 133
New Right, 145, 146, 151, 168–69. See also conservatism; free-market environmentalism; neoconservatives
Newsweek, 155–56
New York Times, 46–47, 54, 217, 224
New York Times Magazine, 278
NFMA (National Forest Management Act), 243–44
Nichols, Louise, 65, 91
NIMBY (“not in my back yard”), 272–73
Nixon, Richard, 59, 305n13; Nixon administration, 58–59, 68, 166–67
Nixon, Rob, xi–xii, 5
Noah Principle, 104–5
nonhuman world (nature): Abbey on, 185–87 (see also Abbey, Edward); animal liberation movement, 105–6, 315n32; Bookchin on relationship of humans to, 193–95, 200–202; debates over relationship of humans and (generally), 7, 202–9, 233–34, 286; environmentalism’s critics’ claims re, xi–xii; humans as part of/related to, 103–4, 184–85, 200–202, 206–9, 233–34, 286; humans in opposition to/as cause of destruction, xi, 40–41, 103, 183–85, 198–99, 202, 208–9, 217, 233–34, 271 (see also anthropocentrism; crisis environmentalism; ecocentrism; holism); interests seen as aligned with human interests, 102; legal rights for, 99–100; markets and, 168 (see also free-market environmentalism); revered/valorized, 8, 125–26, 181, 206; symbols of, to environmentalists, 239 (see also redwoods; wilderness); valued equally with humans, x, 39, 96–97, 101, 104–5, 107; women associated with nature, 194, 199–200. See also natural order; wilderness
Nordhaus, Ted, 296n10
North American Free Trade Agreement. See NAFTA
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA), 266–67
Northwest Forest Plan (Forest Service), 247. See also Forest Service, U.S.
Northwest Forest Resource Council, 242–43
Northwest Passage (newspaper), 35, 129
Noss, Reed, 128, 241, 254–55, 258, 261, 280
NRDC. See Natural Resources Defense Council
NREPA (Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act), 266–67
nuclear technology: power plants, 59, 216 (see also uranium mines); weapons, 32, 130–31
Nussbaum, Martha, 9
oil and gas drilling, xi–xii, 156–59, 159fig, 161–62, 283. See also fossil fuels; and specific companies
old-growth forests, 236–39, 242–57, 265. See also forest protection; Pacific Coast forests; redwoods; spotted owls; timber industry
The Old Mole (periodical), 52
Ophuls, William, 76, 77, 307n41, 309n63, 310n65
Oregon: Earth First! actions in, 136–40, 175, 222–23; Kalmiopsis Wilderness and Bald Mountain, 140; Oregon wilderness bill, 140; Siskiyou Mountains, 134–37, 175; and the spotted owl controversy, 244, 246 (see also spotted owls); wilderness bill, 136, 138; Willamette National Forest, 148–49, 175, 223, 254, 284. See also forest protection; Pacific Coast forests
Oregon Natural Resources Council, 137
O’Riordan, Timothy, 92, 313n21
Orr, David, 264
Osborn, Fairfield, 63
O’Shaughnessy Dam (Calif.), 14, 123
Ostrow, Cecilia, 284
O’Toole, Randal, 177–78, 179
Our Synthetic Environment (Bookchin), 193
outdoor recreation: as anthropocentric value, 104; BLM and, 148; Forest Service, national forests and, 99, 111, 177–78, 279; opposition to development for, 15–18, 97–100, 214–15, 228; Park Service and, 187; privileged over subsistence hunting and Native sovereignty, ix; and roads, 15–18, 188
overpopulation. See population policy and politics
Overshoot (Catton), 198, 334n37
Owl Creek (Calif.), 255, 256. See also Headwaters Forest
Pacific Coast forests, 134–36, 236–37; Bald Mountain and Little Santiam protests, 136–41; logging profitable in, 177, 219–21;old-growth forests, 236–39, 242–43 (see also old-growth forests); redwoods, 237–39, 248–51; spotted owls, 243–47, 252; timber wars, 247–57. See also forest protection; timber industry
Pacific Lumber, 225–26, 228, 249–53, 255–57. See also Headwaters Forest
partisan politics, and environmentalism, 143–45. See also conservatism (political); neoconservatives; New Left; New Right; Republican Party
Peabody Coal Company, 209–11. See also Black Mesa
Peace and Freedom Party, 43
People’s Park, 44–48, 50–51, 303n108
Perlstein, Rick, 305n13
Pickett, Karen, 137, 176, 256
Pinchot, Gifford, 12, 13
The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado (Porter), 24
Planned Parenthood, 64, 86
Podhoretz, Norman, 147, 167
Political Economy Research Center (PERC), 169, 179. See also Baden, John
Pollan, Michael, 179, 292n2
pollution: air pollution, 24, 84; as concern of environmentalism, 27–28, 54; conservative views on, xi–xii, 147; crisis environmentalism and, 73, 125; environmental justice movement and, 271–73; industrial pollution, 27, 28, 55, 166–67, 210, 271–72; markets in, 8; oil spills, xi–xii; regulation of, 35, 58–59, 62, 167–68 (see also Environmental Protection Agency); and wilderness, 125; YAF on, 147
Pope, Carl, 256–57, 265, 267, 275
The Population Bomb (Ehrlich), 63, 67–68, 87, 310n77. See also Ehrlich, Paul
population policy and politics: history of concern about overpopulation, 40, 41, 62–65, 67–68, 196–97 (see also crisis environmentalism); mainstream environmentalism and, 38, 63, 64–65, 83–84, 87, 90, 273–74, 285; New Left and, 35, 81; population and economic growth and consumption, 83–85; race and immigration and, 81, 87–92, 273–74 (see also immigration); tragedy of the commons and, 75–76; women and, 84, 85–87; ZPG (organization) and, 62–66, 78–82, 85–86 (see also Zero Population Growth). See also Ehrlich, Paul; immigration
Porter, Eliot, 21, 24, 27
Port Huron Statement (SDS), 30–32, 300nn50, 53
power generation. See coal-fired power plants; dams; mining
private property: activism difficult on, 254–55; and the concept of wilderness, 253; free-market environmentalism and, 168, 169–70; and grazing rights, 170–71, 327n70 (see also ranchers and cattle ranching); and large-scale wildlands management, 259–60 (see also the Wildlands Project); libertarian belief in property rights, 329n107; and logging (timber wars), 247–58, 264; People’s Park and private ownership, 46 (see also People’s Park); privatization of public lands, 164, 169, 181; purchasing lands/rights for conservation, 248–49, 253, 255–58; rise of, in Bookchin’s thought, 195
professionalization of environmental groups, 57, 60–61, 115–16, 151
progress, 25, 27, 187, 269. See also capitalism; economic growth; industrialization; industry
pronatalism, 66, 84, 85–86. See also population policy and politics
Protect Our Woods, 263
Proudhon, Pierre, 331n18
Providence Journal, 40
Public Grazing Lands: Use and Misuse by Industry and Government (Voigt), 150
public lands: competing views re use of, 143, 149, 150; grazing lands, 127, 150, 169–74, 266 (see also grasslands; ranchers and cattle ranching); hard vs. soft release, 120; privatization of, 164, 169, 181; public opposition to resource extraction on, 265; roadless areas (see under Forest Service, U.S.); state attempts to seize, 149 (see also sagebrush rebellion). See also Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Bureau of Reclamation; forest protection; Forest Service, U.S.; wilderness preservation; and specific states and lands
Purdy, Jedediah, xiii
race: anti-immigration sentiments, 90–91, 196, 204, 273–76 (see also immigration); Civil Rights Movement, 30–31; environmental movement predominantly white, 5, 42, 272; and outdoor recreation, 126, 215; and population policy/politics, 35, 81, 87–92, 273–77. See also Native Americans; social justice
radical environmentalism: activists arrested/prosecuted, 138–39, 140–41, 214–17, 229–30, 267, 283–84; and anarchism, 7, 144–45, 160–61, 188–92, 189fig, 233; belief in crisis as motivating force, 67 (see also crisis environmentalism); commitments demanded by, 5; connections between mainstream environmentalism and, 236, 262–69, 279–81, 284–86 (see also specific organizations and topics); and conservation biology, 235, 241–42, 247, 259; core principles/beliefs, x, xii–xiii, 1–3, 8–9, 151, 180, 235; democratic justifications abandoned, 108; direct action preferred, 2, 95, 96, 128–42 (see also direct action); vs. the Forest Service, 174–79 (see also Forest Service, U.S.; and specific actions); and free-market environmentalism, 169–70; frustrated with democracy’s gradualism, 74; government distrusted, 144; humans blamed for environmental harm, 183–85, 199, 233–34 (see also holism; nonhuman world: humans in opposition to); “in-betweenness” of, 181; and James Watt, 156; mainstream movement criticized by, 119, 124, 142, 156–58, 162, 247; and Native sovereignty in the Southwest, 209–14, 215; necessity defense employed, 283–84; overlap between crisis environmentalism and, 196–97 (see also crisis environmentalism); People’s Park as beginning of, 48, 51 (see also People’s Park); scholarship on, 5–6, 294n8, 294–96n9; shift toward, 95–96, 141, 284 (see also ecocentrism); and social justice, 7, 196–98, 202–5, 236, 271 (see also Bari, Judi; Bookchin, Murray; race; social justice); traditional cultures esteemed, 191–92, 209, 212; wilderness preservation the focus of, 2, 96, 106–7, 125–26 (see also wilderness preservation). See also crisis environmentalism; Earth First!; ecocentrism; and specific groups, tactics, incidents, and individuals
Radl, Shirley, 78
Ramparts, 46
ranchers and cattle ranching, 127, 148, 169–74, 266, 323n12. See also grasslands; sagebrush rebellion
rangeland activism, 169–74. See also grasslands; ranchers and cattle ranching
RARE I (Roadless Area Review and Evaluation), 111
RARE II (second Roadless Area Review and Evaluation), 107, 110–14, 116–20, 153, 163, 175–76, 316n49
Rat (New York periodical), 35, 50, 52
Reagan, Ronald: anti-environmentalism claims of, xi; as California governor, 37, 46, 47, 146; Reagan administration, 143–44, 152–55, 164, 169, 174 (see also Watt, James)
Reason (magazine), 168
reason, human, 4, 32–33, 179–80, 190, 191, 200–201. See also humanism; liberal humanism
Redwood National Park, 239
redwoods, 236–39; timber wars, 247–57. See also Pacific Coast forests; Redwood Summer; Save the Redwoods League
Redwood Summer, 226, 228–30, 233, 254
Reich, Charles, 28–29
“Reinventing Nature” project (Univ. of Calif.), 277–79
Reisner, Marc, 19
Remington, Charles, 62. See also Zero Population Growth
Republican Party, 165. See also conservatism; New Right; and specific individuals
rewilding, 127–28, 259, 260
Reynolds, Malvina, 64
Ritter, Alan, 332n18
roadless areas: Forest Service management of, vii–viii, 279; RARE I, 111; RARE II, 107, 110–14, 116–20, 153, 163, 175–76, 316n49. See also Forest Service, U.S.
roads: blockades of timber roads, 136–38, 140, 158, 221–22 (see also timber industry); Forest Service’s roadbuilding program, 175 (see also RARE II); outdoor recreation and, 15–18, 187. See also Forest Service, U.S.; and specific sites
Road to Survival (Vogt), 63
Robertson, Thomas, 65
Robinson, Bestor, 15, 40, 97
Rockwell, Llewellyn, xi, xii
Rome, Adam, 71, 295n9
Romney, Hugh, 49
Roosevelt, Theodore, 238
Roselle, Mike, 218, 337n89; on direct action, 128, 248; on Earth First!’s red tape, 181; and the founding of Earth First!, 121–22, 122fig; interviewed by author, xv–xvi; and the Kalmiopsis Wilderness protests, 140–41; and mountaintop removal mining, 289; Mt. Rushmore protest, 289; necessity defense employed, 284; and rifts within Earth First!, 218–19
Rossinow, Doug, 299n47
Round River Rendezvous (Earth First!), 158, 180, 204, 215, 216, 234. See also Little Granite Creek
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 188, 331n15
Ruckelshaus, William, 59
Runciman, David, 74–75, 309n61
Runkle, Gerald, 331n18, 331nn15, 18
Sabin, Paul, 144, 182, 295n9
sabotage, environmental, 207fig; Abbey on, 142 (see also The Monkey Wrench Gang); in Arizona, 213, 214–17; before Earth Day, 129; at Little Granite Creek, 158; mainstream groups’ opinions on, 224; tree spiking, 1–2, 221–28, 338nn98, 101. See also direct action; Earth First!
Sacred Cows at The Public Trough (Ferguson and Ferguson), 171
Sacred Mountain Defense Fund, 215
sagebrush rebellion, 143, 145, 149–51, 153, 168, 170, 323–24n13, 324n20. See also grasslands; ranchers and cattle ranching
Sale, Kirkpatrick, 161
Salleh, Ariel Kay, 199
Sally Bell Grove (Calif.), 248–49, 257
Salt Creek Wilderness (N.M.), 161–62
salvage logging rider, 254, 264, 268
A Sand County Almanac (Leopold), 24, 44
San Francisco Ecology Center, 100
San Francisco Examiner, 40, 152
San Gorgonio, Mount, 15–16, 97, 99
Save the Redwoods League, 12, 239, 248, 257, 257
Sayen, Jamie, 184, 258, 280
Schabas, Margaret, 329n107
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 31–32, 300n52
Schlesinger, James, 131
Schmookler, Andrew Bard, 159, 160–61, 163
Schrepfer, Susan, 15, 38, 39, 201–2, 297n8
Schulman, Bruce, 305n13
Schumacher, E. F., 69–70, 307n41
Schwarzenegger, Don, 171, 173, 174
Science (journal), 152
Scott, Doug, 153, 154–55, 224
SDS. See Students for Democratic Society
Seale, Bobby, 51, 88
Sears, Paul, 13
Sease, Debbie, 115, 150, 172
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, 132–33. See also Watson, Paul
Seiberling, John, 118
Sellers, Christopher, 295n9
Sequoia National Forest (Calif.). See Forest Service, U.S.; Mineral King Valley
Sessions, George, 102, 140, 286
Shand, Alexander, 329n108
Shawnee National Forest (Ill.), 263
Shellenberger, Michael, 296n10
Shepard, Thomas, Jr., 166, 167, 201
Sherwin, Raymond, 41, 284–85
“Should Trees Have Standing?: Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects” (Stone), 99–100
Sielstad, Hal, 79, 89
Sierra Club, 11–12; and the Alaskan wilderness, 109; amateur tradition within, 12–14, 57; and the Amchitka atomic bomb test, 130–31; and ancient forests and spotted owls, 238–39, 243–47; anti-Watt campaign, 154–56 (see also Watt, James); and the Bald Mountain road, 137; and the Bari investigation, 230; battles over the parks (1940s–1960s), 19–26, 212, 257; Brower as executive director, 11, 20, 26–27, 57, 58, 115 (see also Brower, David); and Clinton, 267–68; criticized by Earth First!, 124, 162; at a crossroads (1940s–1950s), 14–18; division within, 263–68, 274–76; Earth First! criticized, 139–40; and ecocentrism, 97–99, 102; and economic growth questions, 84, 165; expansion into environmental concerns, 27–28, 52–53; on the FBI investigation of Earth First!, 217; Forest Service roadbuilding opposed, 176; founding and early years, 12–14; and Glen Canyon Dam, 21–23, 24–25, 268–69; growth (membership and donations), 57–58, 60, 155; and immigration, 91, 236, 273–77; increasingly critical view of humankind, 39–41, 301n80; Legal Defense Fund, 59, 137, 247; lobbying by, 56–58, 60, 95, 109–10; and Mineral King Valley, 97–100; mission and goals, 12, 14, 18–19, 27–28; and the Park Service and Forest Service, 17–18; population concerns, 64–65, 84, 87, 90, 273–74, 285; and private land purchases, 256–57; Proclamation on Wilderness, 125; professionalization of, 57, 115–16; radical environmentalists’ influence on, 236, 262–69; and RARE I and II, 111, 116–20; on the sagebrush rebellion, 150; scenic locations privileged over “working” landscapes, 212; state-by-state strategy, 120, 163; survival committee, 71–72, 84, 308n55; tax-deductible status lost, 57–58; and the timber wars, 249, 252, 253, 256–57; on tree spiking, 224; uranium mining protested, 213; wilderness conferences (1949–1969), 37–42, 63, 125, 126, 284–85; and the Yosemite Valley, 14–15, 17–18; and young activists (campus program, 1960s–1970s), 35–37; and zero cut, 263, 269. See also specific individuals
Sierra Club Bulletin, 15, 16–17, 36, 61
Sierra Club v. Morton, 97–100
Sierra magazine, 217, 247, 269
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 14, 18. See also Sierra Club; Yosemite National Park
Sierrans for U.S. Popularization Stabilization (SUSPS), 275, 276
Silent Spring (Carson), 27, 32, 193
Simberloff, Daniel, 261
Simon, Julian, 81–82
Sinkyone Wilderness State Park (Calif.), 248–49. See also Sally Bell Grove
Siskiyou Country (journal), 127
Siskiyou Mountains (Calif. and Ore.), 134–37, 175
skepticism: of anarchists, about capitalism, 197–98; Brower’s growing skepticism of progress, economic growth, 24–26; and distrust toward federal government, 144, 151–52, 158–61 (see also anarchism; sagebrush rebellion); environmentalism and, 7–8, 164; radical environmentalism and, 3–5, 7
Skillen, James, 150
ski resorts, 15–16, 97–100, 214–15
Sky Islands/Greater Gila Nature Reserve Network, 259, 261
Smokey Bear, 38, 41, 302n92
SNCC, 31, 33
Snoeyenbos, Milton, 314–15n30
Snowbowl ski resort (Ariz.), 214–15
Snyder, Gary, 41–42, 49, 92, 217, 278, 302n92
social ecology, 51–52, 72–73, 192–95, 197, 332–33n23, 333n27. See also Bookchin, Murray
social justice: Bari and, 219–21; Civil Rights Movement, 30–31; climate change and inequality, 287–88; Earth First! and, 7, 183, 196, 202–5, 219, 231, 232; environmentalism and (generally), 29, 34–35, 103, 203, 236, 271, 307n41 (see also Bookchin, Murray; social ecology); environmentalism and Native sovereignty in the Southwest, 209–14, 215, 336n67; environmental justice movement, 271–73; New Left and, 29–31, 299n47; population policy and, 85–92; radical environmentalism’s disregard for, 7, 196–98, 202–5, 236, 271; SDS and, 30, 32–33. See also immigration; Native Americans; women’s movement
social order: in anarchist thought, 191, 331–32n18; Bookchin on, 193–95. See also natural order
“Song of the San Francisco Bay” (Reynolds), 64
Soulé, Michael, 241, 258, 278, 280
Southeast Alaska Conservation Council (SEACC), 280
Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project, 261
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, 261, 283
Southwest Organizing Project, 272
species thinking, 287
Speece, Darren, 250, 253
SPK (stable population Keynesianism), 83
spotted owls, 243–47, 252
stable population Keynesianism (SPK), 83
Stanford University, 72–73, 74, 309n60
Stanislaus River (Calif.), 133
Starhawk, 200
“Statement Concerning the Need for National Population Policy” (Wilderness Society), 65
steady-state economy, 69, 307n41, 307n41, 309n63
Steele, Gary, 224–25
Stockman, David, 173
Stone, Christopher, 99–100
Stroup, Richard, 171, 176–77
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 31, 33
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 29–35, 81, 82, 299n47, 300n53. See also New Left Notes; Port Huron Statement
suburbs, 84, 89. See also middle class
Supreme Court, U.S., 57, 98, 99–100
survival, 71–74, 77, 87–88, 308n55. See also crisis environmentalism
Sutherland, Robert (“Woods”), 252–53
Sutter, Paul, ix–x, xi, 16–17, 108, 293n14, 315n38
Sweetwater River, 319n93
system dynamics, 73–74
Tanton, John, 65, 90–91, 102, 274–75
technology, 7–8, 201, 314–15n30. See also industrialization; nuclear technology
This Is Dinosaur: Echo Park Country and its Magic Rivers (Sierra Club), 21
Thomas, Jack Ward, 246–47
Thoreau, Henry David, 101, 186
timber industry (logging industry): Bari’s desire to build alliance with loggers, 219–21, 225–26, 228, 338n111; complaints against the Forest Service, 112; efforts to protect Midwest forests from, 263; efforts to protect Pacific Coast forests from, 134–41, 238–39, 243–57; Forest Service bias toward, 175; Forest Service timber sales to, 177–78; percentage of timber supply from public lands, 265; practices, 178, 239–42, 246, 248–50, 252, 253; release of public lands to, 112, 120 (see also RARE I; RARE II); salvage logging rider, 254, 264, 268; and spotted owls, 243–47, 252; state-by-state strategy and, 163; timber companies, private land, and the timber wars, 247–57; tree sitting and, 139; tree spiking and, 1–2, 221–28, 338n98; violent confrontations with protesters, 137, 228–29; zero cut policy and, 263–66. See also forest protection; Forest Service, U.S.; roads; wilderness preservation
Time magazine, 166, 244
Tioga Pass Road (Yosemite), 15, 17–18, 257
Tompkins, Doug, 258
toxic waste. See pollution
Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States (Commission for Racial Justice of the United Church of Christ), 271
“The Tragedy of the Commons” (Hardin), 40, 75–76, 92, 169
trees. See forest protection; forestry practices; Forest Service, U.S.; Pacific Coast forests; redwoods; timber industry; wilderness; wilderness preservation
tree sitting, 139, 140, 221, 251–52, 256
tree spiking, 1–2, 221–28, 338nn98, 101
Trott, Gena, 206
“The Trouble with Wilderness” (Cronon), viii, xiii–xiv, 278
Trust for Public Land, 248–49, 257
Tuolumne River dam, 14, 123
Turnage, William, 114–15, 118, 140, 164
Turner, James Morton: on the Forest Service’s narrow definition of wilderness, 127; on the political meaning of wilderness, 13, 120–21, 315n38; on the shift in justifications for wilderness protection, 39; on the Wilderness Act campaign, 108; on the wilderness movement’s faith in government, 128; on the Wilderness Society under Brandborg, 112
Turner, Tom, 286, 298n31
Two Yosemites (Sierra Club film), 21
TWP. See the Wildlands Project
Udall, Morris, 23, 65
Udall, Stewart, 23, 210
“A Unifying Theme” (Humphrey), 43
University of California, 45–46, 277–79
uranium mines, 213, 214–15
U.S. News & World Report, 152
Utne Reader, 197
Van der Ryn, Sim, 46
Vietnam War, 29–30, 33–34
violent confrontations: between loggers and protesters, 137, 228–30; over People’s Park, 46–48
Vogt, William, 63, 88
Voigt, William, 150
Waller, Don, 278
Washington Earth First!, 205, 245
Washington Post, 56, 175
water, 70, 122–23, 210. See also dams
Watson, David, 198, 201, 206, 208
Watson, Paul, 106, 132–33, 205, 226
Watson, Richard, 103, 314n28
Watt, James, 154–56, 157fig, 174–75
Wayburn, Edgar, 20, 26–27, 57, 109, 110, 255
Webb, Walter Prescott, 173
Weminuche Wilderness (Col.), vii–viii, xiii–xiv
Werbach, Adam, 268
the West: desert climate and water infrastructure, 122–23 (see also dams); environmentalism and Native sovereignty in the Southwest, 209–14, 215; oil and gas drilling, 283; sagebrush rebellion, 143, 145, 149–51, 153, 168, 170, 323–24n13, 324n20; Westerners’ frustration with federal government, 143, 145, 148–49, 323n12. See also Bureau of Land Management (BLM); Forest Service, U.S.; grasslands; Pacific Coast forests; ranchers and cattle ranching; and specific states and locations
Western Ancient Forest Campaign, 243
Western Energy Supply and Transmission (WEST), 209–10. See also Black Mesa
whaling, 132
White, Richard, vii
Wild Earth (TWP journal), 261, 264, 278–79
wilderness: Abbey on, 185–87 (see also Abbey, Edward); central paradox of, viii, 183–84, 198 (see also holism); critiques of wilderness valorization, 126; Cronon on, viii, xiii–xiv, 183, 198; debates over meaning, classification, and degrees of, viii–x, 126–28, 170, 186–88, 277–79, 319n93; and ecocentric thought, 125 (see also ecocentrism); evolving conceptions of, 235, 253, 258; hybrid nature of, viii–x, xii, 292n2; inherent value of, 99; mass consumption of, 16–17 (see also outdoor recreation); as measure of planetary health, 2; overpopulation and, 65 (see also population policy and politics); rewilding, 127–28, 259, 260; roadbuilding in, 175–76 (see also Forest Service, U.S.; RARE II; and specific sites); roadless areas, vii–viii, 279 (see also RARE I; RARE II); valorized by radical environmentalists, 8, 125–26, 181; Watt’s attempt to expand mineral, gas, and oil exploration in, 156; Wolke on the importance of, 230. See also nonhuman world; wilderness preservation; and headings beginning with “wilderness”
Wilderness Act (1964), 38, 111, 117, 127, 156, 160, 181, 188
wilderness conferences (Sierra Club), 37–39, 125, 126; of 1969, 39–42, 63, 284–85
wilderness movement, 13. See also conservation movement; environmentalism
wilderness preservation: anti-wilderness movement (see sagebrush rebellion); contradictory philosophies underlying, 97, 107–8 (see also conservation movement; ecocentrism); de facto wilderness, 109, 136, 138, 140, 163, 175, 259, 279 (see also Alaska; Bald Mountain; Middle Santiam Wilderness; public lands; RARE II; the Wildlands Project); democratic justifications for, 14–18, 19, 107–8; direct action as means of (see direct action); Earth First!’s focus on, 124–26 (see also Earth First!); ecological justifications for, 38–41, 110; as focus of radical environmentalists, 2, 96, 106–7 (see also radical environmentalism); Forest Service interpretation of, 127 (see also Forest Service, U.S.); large-scale wildlands planning, 258–61 (see also the Wildlands Project); local/grassroots efforts, 112, 113–14 (see also Earth First!; grassroots activism); Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, 266–67; scenic locations privileged, 212; state-by-state strategy, 120, 124, 163 (see also Oregon: wilderness bill); through land purchase, 248–49, 253, 255–58; Turner on the wilderness movement, 120–21; Wilderness Protection Act (proposed), 156–58. See also direct action; forest protection; grasslands; litigation; Pacific Coast forests; redwoods; wilderness; and specific organizations, legislation, locations, protests, and individuals
Wilderness Society: administration and finances, 112–16; and the Alaskan wilderness, 109, 110; and ancient forests and spotted owls, 242–46; anti-Watt campaign, 155, 156 (see also Watt, James); backlash warned about, 166; contradictory philosophies within, 108; criticism of, 118–19, 124, 162; and Dinosaur National Monument, 19–21; Earth First! criticized, 140; and Forest Service policy, 177; and grassroots activism, 112, 113–14; growth of, 113, 155; Koehler and, 114, 115, 121, 280–81; population concerns, 65, 87; professionalization of, 115–16; and the RARE II fight, 112–14, 116–20; and the sagebrush rebellion, 150; state-by-state strategy, 120, 124, 163; and tree spiking, 224, 338n101; and the wilderness conferences, 37. See also Anderson, Harold
Wilderness Support Center, 280–81
the Wildlands Project (TWP), 255, 258–61, 266, 276–77, 279
Willamette National Forest (Ore.), 148–49, 175, 223, 254, 284
Wilson, E.O., 241, 275
Wolfe, Alan, 3
Wolke, Howie: and the Alaskan campaign, 114; and the definition of wilderness, 127, 128, 319n93; on the failure of environmental legislation, 160; and forest protection, 175–78; and the founding of Earth First!, 121–22, 122fig; on the importance of wilderness, 230; interviewed by author, xv; and the Little Granite Creek protests, 158; on logging on private lands, 252
women’s movement (feminist movement), 30, 33, 85–87, 199–200, 221, 300n53. See also Mills, Stephanie
Woodcock, George, 191, 331n15, 331–32n18
Worster, Donald, 295n9
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park (Alaska), 110. See also Alaska
Wuerthner, George, 127, 212–13, 242, 255, 258, 280
YAF (Young Americans for Freedom), 146–47
Yates Petroleum, 161–62
Yellowstone to Yukon Network, 259, 276
Yosemite National Park, 14–15, 17–18, 257
Young, Margaret Hays, 264, 266
Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), 146–47
Zahniser, Howard, 37, 108, 126, 184
Zelko, Frank, 295n9
Zero Population Growth (organization; ZPG), 93; Bookchin’s criticism of, 197; Forrester article published, 74 (see also Forrester, Jay); and gender equality, 85–86; holism of, 80, 93; on inaction, 55; and liberalism, 80–91; and population policy/politics, 62–66, 78–82, 87–90; scholarship on, 306n24; and system dynamics, 74; and the threat of coercion, 77–80
Z.P.G. (film), 79–80