Study & Research Saving American Wilderness

This Study Guide consists of approximately 64 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Saving American Wilderness.

Study & Research Saving American Wilderness

This Study Guide consists of approximately 64 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Saving American Wilderness.
This section contains 841 words
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Earth First!
Earth First! Journal

P.O. Box 1415
Eugene, OR 97440
(541) 344-8004


This radical environmental movement conducts direct-action campaigns in defense of the last wild places like the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. Followers of Earth First! use a combination of education, litigation, and civil disobedience, like tree sitting and roadblocking, to stop logging in the ancient forests. Earth First! has no central staff or office. To find out about the movement, people may contact Earth First! Journal, published eight times a year, which includes information on Earth First! and other radical environmental groups.

Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
257 Park Ave. South
New York, NY 10010
(212) 505-2100
Internet: www.edf.com



Founded in 1967 to ban the pesticide DDT, the 300,000-member Environmental Defense Fund has a staff of scientists, lawyers, and economists who conduct research and litigate to find solutions to environmental problems. Some of the issues...

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