Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal. Brigid Edition. February 2, 1988. Vol. VIII, No. III. [Volume 8, Number 3]

Foreman, Dave (Editor & Publisher). [Earth First!] Articles by: Howie Wolke, Mohave Moll and Nevada Nell, Dave Gaines, J.P. Bernhard, Darryl Cherney, Rod Coronado, Suslositna Eddy, Steve Robinson, Mary Davis, Edward Abbey, Wendell Berry, David Abram, et al. Artwork and photography by: Jim Stiles, Lone Wolf Circles, Christoph Manes, Mad Jack, B. von Alten, Jim Stroup, John Zaelit, Marcy Willow, Helen Wilson, et al. Poetry by: Gilbert Skink, Dick Barnes, Debbie Stoessel, Jeffers Larson, Susan Anderson, John S. Allen, Tim McNulty, and Mary de La Valette

Published by Earth First! / Dave Foreman, Tucson, AZ, 1988

About this Item

40pp. Newsprint [43cm x 27.5cm / 17" x 11"]. Ten bifolia (sheets folded vertically once to form forty pages). Some occasional soft creases and the rare spot of age toning or staining along edges. Else, a nice clean and bright copy. Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice" (Dave Foreman, Editor). Rear cover half-page illustration by Lone Wolf Circles dated '88 is untitled and depicts a ranch hand herding a large group of branded cattle in front of mountain peaks, above which shows, in a dreamy puff of clouds, some of the much wilder and disappearing Western animals: a buffalo, a wolf, a fox, a wolverine. Cover story by Howie Woke is entitled "Stop the Forest Service!" Cover illustration entitled "The Forest Service Cometh" by Christoph Manes depicts the grim reaper scything down a patch of old-growth forest. David Gaines (1947-1988) obituary printed on page 3. Full-page ad "EF! Local Groups Merchandise" with "Usual Disgusting Plea for Money" on page 15. Curious article on page 25 entitled "Deep Ecology and Magic: Notes of a Sleight-of-hand Sorcerer" by David Abram ("David Abram, in addition to being a spell-binding magician, is a philosophy teacher at SUNY"). Edward Abbey's review of Wendell Berry's work "Home Economics" is printed on page 32. Wendell Berry's "My Answer to Edward Abbey" follows on page 33. Other credited Earth First! staff for this issue include: John Davis (Managing Editor), Kris Sommerville (Business Manager), Charles Conner (Shipping & Mailing), Helen Wilson (Cartography), Mike Roselle (Roving Editor), David Cross (Roving Editor), Roger Featherstone (Roving Editor), Art Goodtimes (Poetry Editor), Christoph Manes (Associate Editor), and Tucson Earth First! Group (Mailing). A long list of additional Contributing Editors, Correspondents, and Contributing Artists follows on page 2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal. Brigid Edition. February 2, 1988. Vol. VIII, No. III. [Volume 8, Number 3]
• Publisher: Earth First! / Dave Foreman, Tucson, AZ
• Publication Date: 1988
• Binding: Magazine
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sustainability & Environmentalism
  • Earth First!
  • Environment
  • Radical Politics & Labor