Books for Sale from The Rewilding Institute
Man Swarm and the Killing of Wildlife by Dave Foreman. Man swarm is the main driver behind the biodiversity crisis—the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs ‘ demise, the scalping of hundreds of millions of acres of forest and other key wildlife habitat, and the atmospheric pollution by greenhouse gases leading to “Global Weirding.” Only by stabilizing human population worldwide and in the United States can we stop wrecking our home—Earth. Foreman outlines a sweep of practical steps we can take to bring our numbers down to what Earth can support—if we have the daring, boldness, and love of life to do it. First in the For the Wild Things series of five books. Raven’s Eye Press, 2011. 274 pages, index, appendices, graphs, tables. Paperback $20.
Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the21st Century by Dave Foreman. Unmatched for its deep, thorough look at extinction and how humans make it happen; what conservation biology teaches us about wild things and how to keep them wild; and a mind-opening vision for rewilding North America grounded in a North American Wildlands Network. Though Rewilding is not an academic book, it is being used as a text in nearly twenty colleges and universities. Island Press, 2004. 295 pages, index, footnotes, maps, tables. Paperback $35, Hardcover $60.
The Lobo Outback Funeral Home: A Novel by Dave Foreman. Foreword by Doug Peacock (paperback only). Lobo is the only novel that tells the story of conservation from inside the conservation family. Set in southwestern New Mexico, it’s the tale of a tough, winsome conservation biologist, the wolves she loves and studies, the man who loves both her and the wolves but who can’t find the strength to make a commitment, and the wolf-hating local lowlifes and their rich rancher leader. Sex, violence, wolves, wilderness. 226 pages. Johnson Books, 2004, Paperback $15; University Press of Colorado, 2000, First Edition Hardcover $25.
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior by Dave Foreman. Part memoir, part history of Earth First!, and a rousing heartfelt call to save wild things, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior is a landmark of conservation writing. “One of the towering figures, the mighty sequoias, of American conservation….”—Bill McKibben. Out of print, few copies left, First Edition (1991) Hardcover for collectors. Harmony, 1991, 229 pages, index. $75.
The Big Outside: A Descriptive Inventory of the Big Wilderness Areas of the U. S. First Edition by Dave Foreman and Howie Wolke. Foreword by Michael Frome. A legendary, broad study of the big roadless areas in the United States: 100,000 acres and over in the West, 50,000 acres and over in the East (368 areas in all described). Includes Bob Marshall’s 1927 and 1936 roadless area inventories. Both the first and second editions of The Big Outside have long been out of print. 458 pages, photos, maps, research sources. Ned Ludd Books, 1988, First Edition, Paperback, $50.
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson, Foreword by Desmond Tutu. Sweeping in depth, breadth, thought, and feeling, eighty women and men answer whether we have a “moral obligation to protect the future of a planet in peril.” Foreman’s short essay, “Wild Things for Their Own Sakes,” builds on Darwin and Leopold to be a bedrock stand for the inborn good of wild things. Others answer from inborn, humanistic, and practical overlooks. Among them are Barack Obama, John Paul II, Dalai Lama, Ursula Le Guin, Barbara Kingsolver, Terry Tempest Williams E. O. Wilson, Gary Snyder, and others from all over Earth. Trinity University Press, 2010, 478 pages, authors’ bios. Softcover $19, Hardcover, $25.
The Way of Natural History edited by Thomas Lowe Fleischner. Once, biology was natural history and was done mostly in the field. Now biology is done indoor mostly by “lab rats.” In some universities, one can get biology degrees without doing anything outside. This fading of natural history is a harsh threat to our tie to wild things in wildlands and –seas and to our work to keep and bring back the whole Tree of Life. Fleischner, of Prescott College, and fellow biologists and conservationists call for coming home to the mindfulness of natural history. Foreman’s little essay, “Talking to Wild Things,” builds on Leopold to ask us to get out and meet our wild neighbors in wild neighborhoods as a fellow wayfarer wandering through without gall. Among the other twenty-one writers are Robert Aitken, Alison Deming, Kathleen Dean Moore, Bob Pyle, and Steve Trombulak. Trinity University Press, 2011, 218 pages, authors’ bios, Paperback, $17.
Continental Conservation: Scientific Foundations of Regional Reserve Networksedited by Michael Soulé and John Terborgh. Scientifically solid and highly readable, Continental Conservation is an anthology written by the top conservation biologists in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico explaining why conservation must be done on a continental scale. Covers the need for big predators, the need for big wilderness areas and how to best design them, the importance of wildlife movement linkages, ecological and evolutionary processes of wildlife, flooding, and predation, and much more. Soulé and Terborgh give a warmhearted, tough-minded call to save wild things and their wilderness homes. Island Press/Wildlands Project, 1999, 227 pages, index, footnotes, some illustrations. Paperback, $29.
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