FOR 493U/FOR 693C
SUPPLEMENTAL READING LIST

Disclaimer:  In cramming a great deal of reading into preparation for this course, I took note that the “literature” is full of attack pieces aimed at environmentalists or their critics.  Sadly, there is a dearth of rational, unbiased material on eco-terrorism or on environmental issues.  So as you review this list and read from it, be skeptical.   It must be noted that the books and web sites on this list may not have anything to say on the topic of eco-terrorism.  Nor does inclusion on this reading list imply any connection with eco-terrorism.  The references are provided to give students a variety of perspectives on environmental issues as background for this course.  References will be added when students find new material during the semester.

Required Reading

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.  2000.  Terrorism in the United States: 1999 Report. http://www2.fbi.gov/publications/terror/terroris.htm

Arnold, Ronald.  EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature: The World of the Unabomber.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0939571188/qid%3D1006131249/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-0789672-5004169

Chase, Alston.  In a Dark Wood : The Fight over Forests & the Myths of Nature.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0765807521/qid=1008016181/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_3_1/102-2864264-1752100

Constitution of the United States http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt

Thoreau, Henry David.  Resistance to Civil Government.  1849.  http://literatureproject.com/civil-disobedience/civil-disobedience.htm

SUPPLEMENTARY READING AND RESOURCES

Books

Abbey, Edward.  The Monkey Wrench Gang.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060956445/qid=1008000776/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_11_3/102-0789672-5004169

Arnold, Ronald.  Trashing the Economy : How Runaway Environmentalism Is Wrecking America.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/093957117X/ref=pd_bxgy_text_2/102-2864264-1752100

Bailey, Ronald.  Ecoscam : The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312109717/ref=pd_sim_books/102-2864264-1752100

Bari, Judy.  Timber Wars.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1567510264/qid=1008010454/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/102-0789672-5004169

Bari, Judy.  Who Bombed Judy Bari.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1902593081/qid=1008010454/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/102-0789672-5004169

Bast, Joseph L., Peter J. Hill, and Richard C. Rue.  Eco-Sanity : A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568330286/qid=1008016735/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_12_1/102-2864264-1752100

Beckerman, Wilfred.  Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1882577361/ref=pd_sim_books/102-2864264-1752100.

Chase, Steve, ed.  Defending the Earth : A Dialogue Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Forman.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0896083829/qid=1008005569/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/102-0789672-5004169

Clausen, Barry R.    Burning Rage: The Growing Anger Within My Country. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/097000379X/qid=1008005255/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/102-0789672-5004169

Clausen, Barry R.   Walking on the Edge: How I Infiltrated Earth First.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0936783125/qid=1008005255/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/102-0789672-5004169

Coffman, Michael.  Environmentalism: The Age of Aquarius or the Twilight of a New Dark Age.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963237306/qid=1008101786/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_8_2/103-6332637-2515008

Ehrlich, Paul R.  and Anne H. Ehrlich.  Betrayal of Science and Reason : How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1559634847/qid=1008016944/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_10_7/102-2864264-1752100

Foreman, David.  1991.  Confessions of an Eco-Warrior.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/051788058X/qid=1008010219/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/102-0789672-5004169

Foreman, David.  Ecodefense : A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0963775103/qid=1008010219/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_10_3/102-0789672-5004169

Gore, Albert, Jr.  Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0452269350/qid=1008016614/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_11_2/102-2864264-1752100

Helvarg, David.  War Against the Greens: The 'Wise-Use' Movement, the New Right, and Anti-Environmental Violence.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871569078/qid=1008005458/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/102-0789672-5004169

Lee, Martha F.  Earth First! : Environmental Apocalypse.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0815603657/qid=1008009851/sr=1-8/ref=sr_1_14_8/102-0789672-5004169

Lomborg, Bjorn.  The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521010683/qid=1008005725/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/102-0789672-5004169

Manes, Christopher.  Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316545325/qid=1008009723/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/102-0789672-5004169

Moore, Patrick.  Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer.  http://greenspirit.com/  

O'Neill, Bard E. and Edward C. Meyer.  Insurgency & Terrorism : Inside Modern Revolutionary Warfare.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1574883356/qid=1008250979/sr=1-28/ref=sr_1_66_28/103-6332637-2515008

Sagan, Eli.  Citizens & Cannibals : The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0742508315/qid=1008250700/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_79_7/103-6332637-2515008

Scarce, Rik.  Eco Warriors : Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/096226833X/qid=1008010365/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_10_2/102-0789672-5004169

Simon, Julian L. 1999.  Hoodwinking the Nation.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1560004347/qid%3D1008009183/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F0%5F1/102-0789672-5004169

Simon, Julian L.  Population Matters: People, Resources, Environment, and Immigration.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887383009/qid=1008009021/sr=1-11/ref=sr_1_11_11/102-0789672-5004169

Zakin, Susan.  Coyotes and Town Dogs : Earth First! And the Environmental Movement.  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140144870/qid=1008010038/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_10_1/102-0789672-5004169

Web Sites

ABC News report, Tracking the Mayhem: Eco-Militants Frustrate Law Enforcement Officials.  October 29, 1999.  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/eco_law.html

ABC News report, In the Name of the Planet: [Vail Expansion] Environmental Activist Violence Escalates.  1999.  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/enviro_violence981026.html

Alliance for America.  Home Page.  http://www.allianceforamerica.org/

American Land Rights Association.  Home Page.  http://www.landrights.org/

American Policy Center.  Home Page.  http://www.americanpolicy.org/

Animal Liberation Front. Home Page.  http://www.animalliberationfront.com/

Animal Liberation Front - North American Press Office.  2001 Year-End Direct Action Report. www.tao.ca/~naalfpo/2001_Direct_Action_Report.pdf

Animal People News.  Home page - do a search for ALF.  http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/

Audubon Society.  Home Page.  http://www.audubon.org/

Bari, Judy.  CNN News archives – report on the bombing of Judy Bari and Darryl Cherney.  http://cnnsf.com/newsvault/output/earthfir.html

Bari, Judy.  Redwood Summer Justice Project's Official Judi Bari Home Page.  http://www.judibari.org/

Bari, Judy.  Who Bombed Judy Bari?  Darryl Cherney’s web site.  http://www.darrylcherney.com/whobombed/

Bari, Judy.  Who bombed Judy Bari?  I'm not sure who developed this site.  http://mediafilter.org/MFF/S37/S37cointelpro.html

Blue Ribbon Coalition.  Home Page.  http://www.sharetrails.org/

Boise Cascade Corporation.  Boise Cascade's Interaction With Environmental Extremist Groups.  http://www.bc.com/other/rancomm.html

Boston Globe article,  "Fighting Terror: Domestic Impact/Ecoterrorism: Western Lawmakers Seek Focus on Destruction by Radicals."  December 6, 2001.  http://www.eskimo.com/~rarnold/boston_globe.htm

Canadian Security Intelligence Service.  Commentary No. 74.  Single Issue Terrorism. http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/com74e.htm

Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.  Home page.  http://www.eskimo.com/~rarnold/index.html

Chain, David.  Headwaters Forest site on David Chain.  http://www.headwatersforest.org/david.chain/index.html

Chain, David.  The Earth First version of David Chain’s death http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/9901/death_david.html

Clausen, Barry.  Outside Magazine article, Snoop: The Secret Life and Prying Times of Barry Clausen.  October 2000.  http://www.outsidemag.com/magazine/200010/200010clausen1.html

Code of Ethics for NGO's -- A Necessary Reform.  Article by Anthony Adair of the Institute of Economic Affairs (UK).  October 1999.  http://www.iea.org.uk/env/NGO.htm

Competitive Enterprise Institute.  Home page.  http://www.cei.org/

Congressional action.  Acts of Ecoterrorism by Radical Environmental Organizations.  Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives.  June 9, 1998.  http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju59927.000/hju59927_0.HTM

Congressional action.  Hearings of the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives.  June 9, 1998.  http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju59927.000/hju59927_0x.htm#STATE

Congressional action.  Letter from Congressmen Scott McInnis (R-CO) and James V. Hansen (R-UT) challenging environmental groups to disavow ecoterrorism.  November 2, 2001.   http://www.cdfe.org/mcinnis.htm

Congressional action.  Report to Congress on the Extent and Effects of Domestic and International Terrorism on Animal Enterprises.  From the Fur Commission USA.  1998.  http://www.furcommission.com/resource/perspect2.htm

Congressional action. Terrorizing the environmental movement.   Salon.Com editorial by Paul Tolme.  http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/11/26/ecoterror/index_np.html?x

Congressional action. Terrorism in any form is intolerable.  Column by Congressman Scott McInnis (R-CO).  November 25, 2001.  Denver Post.  http://www.denverpost.com/cda/article/detail/0,1040,73%257E237093%257E36%257E%257E,00.html

Congressional action. Wild Law Denounces “Eco-Terrorism.”  Response to Congressman Hansen from Ray Vaughan, Executive Director of WildLaw, an Alabama-based “Non-Profit Environmental Law Firm Defending the Wild!”  November 28, 2001.  http://www.wildlaw.org/news.html#112801

Earth First: “Direct Action Gets the Goods”  http://ef.enviroweb.org/primer/DA.html

Earth First! Expose.  Joel Carlinsky (an EFer) describes his organization as a "cult" and reveals splits within the organization.  http://www.expose.iwarp.com/

Earth First Journal.  http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/index.html

Earth First.  What is Earth First?   http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/primer/index.html

Earth Liberation Front.  Home Page.  http://www.earthliberationfront.com/

Earth Liberation Front.  Craig Rosebraugh- Ecoterrorism, Or Act of Love?  Article on the Forest Conservation Portal.  October 27, 1999.  http://forests.org/archive/america/crrosavi.htm

Earth Liberation Front.  ELF calls for "direct action" at FBI offices and other federal buildings.   Article on the Forest Conservation Portal.  March 14, 2001.  http://forests.org/archive/america/elfcalls.htm

Eco-Logic.  Home Page.  http://www.eco.freedom.org/

Eco-terrorism Response Network operated by the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise.  http://www.cdfe.org/ecoterror.htm

Eco-terrorism Sources.  American Land Rights Association.  http://www.landrights.org/ecoterrorism.htm

Ehrlich, Paul R.  Recent Developments in Environmental Sciences.  1998.   http://dieoff.com/page157.htm

Environmental Extremism and Eco-Terrorism: The Costs Imposed on Americans.  Proceedings of a June, 2001 conference sponsored by Frontiers of Freedom (A Wise Use group).  http://www.ff.org/library/ecoterrormonograph.html

Environmental Working Group.  Home Page.  http://www.ewg.org/

FBI Statement on Terrorism.  May 10, 2001.  http://www.cdfe.org/fbi_statement.htm

Forest Conservation Portal.  Environmental web site with many links to pertinent information.   http://forests.org/

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.  Home page.  http://www.afseee.org/

Foundation for Biomedical Research.  Statement on animal rights terrorism.  http://www.fbresearch.org/rightsquotes.html

Fox News report, "Attacks Haven't Slowed Environmental Radicals."  November 6, 2001.
http://www.cdfe.org/attacks_continue.htm

Friends of the Earth USA.  Home page.  http://www.foe.org/

Frontiers of Freedom.  A Wise Use group with several articles on eco-terrorism.  http://www.ff.org/

Fur Commission USA.  Fur industry site with articles on animal rights and environmental terrorism.    http://www.furcommission.com/sitemap.htm

Greenpeace International.  Home Page. http://www.greenpeace.org/

Greenpeace USA.  Home Page.  http://www.greenpeaceusa.org/

Greenspirit – Dr. Patrick Moore’s site on forests and forest ecology.  http://greenspirit.com/

Genetic Trees: A Target for “Eco-Terrorists”.  July 3, 2001.  National Public Radio. http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2001/jul/010702.ecoterrorism.html

Green Terror: Earth lovers can be evildoers, too. November 24, 2001.  The Wall Street Journal.  http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=95001502

Institute for Deep Ecology.  http://www.deep-ecology.org/

McCarthy, John.  Progress and Its Sustainability.  A series of web pages dedicated to a scientific look at environmental sustainability put together by a Stanford computer science professor.   http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/

McCarthy, John.  Ideology and Sustainability.  http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/ideology.html

Meno, by Plato.  http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/meno.html

Militia Wacthdog.  Home Page focused on right-wing militias and hate groups.  http://www.militia-watchdog.org/

Montana Human Rights Network. Follow links to the newsletter and the Wise Use Movement. Views from the left of the political spectrum.  http://www.mhrn.org/about.html

Nature Conservancy.  Home Page.  http://nature.org/

New York Times article on those who operate the web sites for ELF and ALF: http://www.landrights.org/NYT-01-01-08.htm

Oregonian list of Acts of Sabotage.  January 11, 2001.  http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/01/01/lc_52timeline11.frame

Oregonian series "Eco-terrorism sweeps the American West".  September 1999.  http://www.oregonlive.com/news/99/09/st092620.html  It may be easier to link through this site - http://www.landrights.org/ALRA.oregonian.eco-terrorism.htm

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.  Home Page.  http://www.peta-online.org/

Property Rights Congress of America.  Home Page.  http://www.freedom.org/prc/

Public Economy Research Center.  Home Page.  http://www.perc.org/

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.  Articles on violence by the Wise Use movement http://www.peer.org/wise_use/violence.html

Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. Home page.  http://www.peer.org/

Quincy Library Group.  Home Page.  http://www.qlg.org/

Rainforest Action Network.  Home Page.  http://www.ran.org/

Rainforest Alliance.  Home Page.  http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/

Report on Terrorism and Task Forces.  Article by Diane Lane on the web site of Peace and Justice Works,
Portland, OR.  January 11, 2001.  http://www.rdrop.com/~pjw/dianereport.html

Rural Cleansing.   http://www.ruralcleansing.com/index.html

Sacramento Bee series, Environment, Inc. by Ted Knudsen.  April 2001.  http://www.sacbee.com/static/archive/news/projects/environment/index02.html

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.  Home Page.  http://www.seashepherd.org/

Seattle Post-Intelligencer article, Elusive radicals escalate attacks in nature's name. June 18, 2001: http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/27871_ecoterror18.shtml

Sierra Club.  Home Page.  http://www.sierraclub.org/

Simon, Julian L.  A Reply to My Critics.  1996.  Very interesting read on tactics used to discredit someone whose ideas don't fit the biocentric model.  How much of this applies to the other side?  http://www.juliansimon.com/reply-critics.html

Taylor, Bron.  Bron Taylor's Web Resource for the study of religions, cultures, and environments, with special attention to radical environmentalism, from Deep Ecology to Bioregionalism, and from Earth First! to the Earth Liberation Front.  Taylor is a Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh. http://www.religionandnature.com/bron/

The Animal Enterprise Protection Act: A Scientist's Perspective.  Article by Edward J. Walsh, Ph.D. on the National Animal Interest Alliance web site.  February 2000.  http://www.naiaonline.org/body/articles/archives/animalenterprise.htm

Thoreau, Henry David.  Resistance to Civil Government.  1849.  http://literatureproject.com/civil-disobedience/civil-disobedience.htm

Treekeepers.  Described as a "grassroots environmental and consumer organization based on the principles of free-market environmentalism."  http://www.treekeepers.org/

Unabomber: "Harvard and the Making of the Unabomber"  Article from The Atlantic by Alston Chase.  http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/06/chase.htm

Unabomber: Mendocino Environmental Center rebuttal to allegations made by ABC News linking the Unabomber to Earth First.  By Nicholas Wilson.  http://www.pacificsites.com/~mec/NEWSL/ISS21-2/21-2.01UniLink.html

Unabomber: Sacramento Bee's informational web site.  http://www.unabombertrial.com/index.html

Unabomber: Unabom Information Center. I'm not sure who put this site together.  http://pages.prodigy.com/gvmm68e/home.html

Washington Times editorial, "Meaner Grows the Greenery," by Candace Crandall.  December 9, 1992.  http://www.sepp.org/env-jobs/meangreen.html

Wilderness Society.  Home Page.  http://www.wilderness.org/

Wise Use Movement.  CLEAR (Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy and Research). Inactive web site about the Wise Use Movement operated by the Environmental Working Group - still maintains a database of information from 1993-1999. http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/clear.html

Wise Use Movement.  The Political Agenda of the "Wise Use Movement." Article on the web site of the Environmental Working Group.  June 1993.  http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/clear/on_wise/AFTE.html

World Resources Institute.  Home Page.  http://www.wri.org/

World Watch Institute.  Home Page.  http://www.worldwatch.org/

World Wildlife Fund USA.  Home Page.  http://www.worldwildlife.org/

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