Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement
When a few scruffy "redneck hippies" first gathered in 1980 in the isolated Pinacate  of Mexico to discuss environmental issues, none had any idea that they would launch a movement that  would involve thousands of activists and a good number of FBI agents. But by the time they emerged from  that wild country, Dave Foreman and company had evolved into Earth First!, a group that vowed to protect  wild places by whatever means necessary. Susan Zakin traces the movement over 10 years to its splintering  in the early 1990s after Foreman and three other activists were arrested for conspiracy to destroy an  Arizona nuclear-power plant. Zakin's vivid prose mirrors the movement's excitement, occasional terror,  and just as occasional triumph--notably author Edward Abbey's notorious "cracking" of the  Glen Canyon Dam in 1981 (a giant roll of black polyurethane provided the illusion that the dam had sprung  a leak), which first brought Earth First! national attention.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.