Wild earth
Subtitle: wild ideas for a world out of balance
By: edited by Tom Butler
Contributors: Butler, Tom, 1963-
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Biodiversity conservation; Environmental protection
Notes: Includes bibliographical references
Table of contents: title: Introduction, "A river of words for wilderness"; title: Wood anemone; title: Around the campfire (Vol. 1, No. 1); title: The Wildlands Project mission, vision, and purpose; title: Wilderness: from scenery to nature; title: Feathers and fossils: Hawaiian extinctions and modern conservation; title: The great denial: puncturing pronatalist myths; title: Nulliparity and a cruel hoax revisited; title: Philanthropy and national parks: an American tradition; title: Bear necessities: grizzlies, wilderness, and the science of extinction; title: Rewilding for evolution; title: Bring back the elephants!; title: And I will be heard: abolitionism and preservationism in our time; title: Language and experience; title: Island civilization: a vision for planet Earth in the year 2992; title: A minority view: rejoinder to 'Island civilization'; title: Conservation is good work; title: Night and fog: the backlash against the Endangered Species Act; title: Ecoporn and the manipulation of desire; title: A critique of and an alternative to the wilderness idea; title: "Wilderness, now more than ever: a response to Callicott; title: Is nature real?; title: Ecoforestry or protected status? Some words in defense of parks; title: Returning to our animal senses; title: Contact and the solid Earth; title: The wilderness of history; title: The myths we live by; title: Coming home to the wild; title: Isle Royale fragments; title: Fellow travelers; title: Loss of place; title: The pollinator and the predator; title: Traveling the logging road, Coast Range; title: Extinction: passenger pigeon Chewing Louse (Columbicola extincta); title: Field report: Yellowstone bison slaughter; title: The gift of silence; title: Job and wilderness; title: The least navigable craft: whales at the Millennium; title: The language of animals; title: Grizzly fears; title: Afterword, Earth verse