These were originally compiled by Forrest in Sept. 2002, with the idea of providing a resource for newcomers. The Web has a ton of good information on it, but don't get lost in it. Climbing a tree is a far superior activity to sitting at a computer terminal reading. This is not an exhaustive list - but I tried to provide some useful links to get people connected. Many sites have extensive links themselves (for example the environment.stanford.edu site links to most academic sites related to the environment at Stanford, and the Jail Hurwitz site links to just about every group and website connected to Headwaters.) The books listed at the bottom are in many ways a better way to learn about these issues - and most are widely available in places like the Stanford Libraries... As of Sept 2002, Forrest's personal bookmark page has many more links than this site, but they are not very well organized. If you want to add stuff to this page, please do! then you can send it to the webmaster and they can re-post your additions.
Education is the Foundation of Action.
SCPJ The Stanford Community for Peace and Justice
Environment.stanford.edu a clearinghouse for more official information related to the environment (ie academic depts, professors, speakers and events, university committees.)
SEAS, farm, SLAC (no, not the accelerator), Mecha, Haas Center, Columbae, Synergy, xox, students for sustainable stanford (urls to come later. If you want to find them now, pop the names into google!
Our dear departed friend and companion, Minna
Acterra, Foundation for Global Community, Common Ground, Santa Cruz EF!, Berkeley EF!, BACH, Art and Revolution, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center (again, I don't have the urls right here. Check on google
Some Bay area based NGOs who work far beyond the Bay Area, but are pretty cool:
RAN the Rainforest Action Network runs activist campaigns targeting corporations (and yes, universities) for environmental abuses. We worked with them on WTO organizing, the Home Depot Campaign, and continue to be in touch with them on issues of old growth wood and paper consumption.
Global Exchange Another San Francisco NGO that works on international social justice issues.
The Ruckus Society offers training and resources for non-violent direct action.
$$ 50000 award for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Charles Hurwitz This site is a good gateway for background on a lot of North Coast Environmental Issues, and has links to many other good organizations.
EPIC The Environmental Protection Information Center in Garberville has been one of the most effective groups in changing logging practices in Northern California. They are rumored to have never lost a lawsuit. Good stuff... Check out their THP watch and alerts pages for recent news from the north coast.
The Institute for Sustainable Forestry, also in Garberville works on improving forest practices in Northern California. One of the few offensive groups in a largely defensive battle.
Forest Defense News the most up-to-date site, usually - from the San Francisco Independent Media Center.
Read about deceased activist Judi Bari and her struggle for justice against the FBI and the Oakland Police Department, who may have framed her for bombing herself...
There doesn't seem to be a current North Coast Earth First Website - but if one pops up, please do tell us!
The California Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection
The Earth First Journal News, resources and links from our friends at EF!
The Biotic Baking Brigade speaks pie to power!
Hootenany The EF! songbook Collective's website.
Globalize This! Generally updated with the latest protest information, and also has links to lots of other organizations and resources on globalization.
The library is a good source for books - nearly all of these are available in the Stanford Library, or else are floating around in collective ownership among activists... Another good source for books, especially on political things is the anarchist bookshop on Haight St. in San Francisco. RATS keeps a small library in Columbae. But when I say small - I mean small.
Desert Solitaire by Ed Abbey. Perhaps the definitive ratties book...
Also look at other books by Abbey, Starhawk, Dave Foreman, etc (I can't remember book titles right now). And of course, if you haven't read Walden, A Sand County Almanac, or any of those other old classics of ecological thought... get to work.
The crimethinc books (Days of War, Nights of Love and Evasion) are often seen floating around among our friends. If you want to read them now, try their Website, where I think most of the text is also available.
The MonkeyWrench Gang. By the angry, defiant, inspirational, and unfortunately quite mysogynistic Ed Abbey. There is no one quite like him. Read it and decide for yourself
The EF! Guide to Monkeywrenching, by Dave Foreman. Perhaps I don't have the title quite right? I've never actually read it... but it is where this all began...
Timber Wars, by Judi Bari. Perhaps this should go in the next section? I haven't actually gotten to read most of it. Essays by an effective, much beloved, and much maligned North Coast Forest Activist, most written between the time she was bombed and the time she died of breast cancer.
The Legacy of Luna, by Julia Butterfly Hill. Like Judi Bari's book - a compelling personal account by the most famous tree-sitter of Northern California.
On the Origin of Institutions for Collective Action, by Elinor Ostrom. It reads sort of like a dry academic study - and it doesn't quite fit in with crimethinc and EF!, but the ideas contained within are quite powerful and highly applicable.
The Last Stand, by David Harris. An excellent popular account of the takeover of Pacific Lumber by Charles Hurwitz and the Maxxam corporation. A good introduction to the sorts of issues and histories we have worked on.
More Tree Talk, by Ray Raphael. Another popular account - consisting largely of interviews with a diversity of key players in forestry, especially in Northern California and Southern Oregon. Focuses on those working in the woods more than on activists like us.
The Redwood Forest, edited by Reed Noss. The definitive book on the history, ecology, and conservation of the redwood ecosystem, just published, and edited by an excellent conservation biologist.
Fire in America, by Stephen Pyne. A history of fire and fire suppression in the United States up until the nineteen eighties. Very well written. Very long.
Beyond the Beauty Strip, by Mitch Lansky. This exhaustively researched book may be about the industrial plantations of Maine - but the indictment of industrial forestry rings true anywhere where the land is owned by stock driven multinationals.
Creating a Forestry for the Twenty First Century, edited by Kohm & Franklin. The best scientific description of ecological forestry I have found. Big, long, full of good scientific infromation.