Around the Campfire by Dave Foreman for Rewilding Earth

Around the Campfire by Dave Foreman

"Nearly twenty-five years ago, I started writing a regular column called “Around the Campfire” for The Earth First! Journal, which I then edited. I first wrote it on a mechanical typewriter. With the breakup of Earth First! in 1990, John Davis and I launched Wild Earth, and I continued “Around the Campfire.” The Wildlands Project discontinued Wild Earth years ago for lack of funding, and Campfire lost a home." ~Dave Foreman

In Memorium

Dave Foreman 1946-2022

Uncle Dave on the Noatak River, Alaska (c) Nancy Morton

Dave Foreman on the origins of Around The Campfire...

During the quarter century of Campfire, I’ve tried to educate, provoke, and activate conservationists on a sweeping range of ideas, issues, and subjects. Material from Campfire has gone into my books, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, The Big Outside, Rewilding North America, and the forthcoming The Myth(s) of the Environmental Movement. I’ve meant Campfire as a broadside of yore, such as Tom Paine and other patriots wrote during the War for Independence. (Read more about Around the Campfire...)

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#52 Around the Campfire; Wilderness Areas and the “Myth(s) of the Frontier”

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#51 Around the Campfire; The Upshot of the Myth of Superabundance

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#49 Around the Campfire; The 1964 Wilderness Act’s Four Definitions of Wilderness

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