Wildeor: The Wild Life and Living Legacy of Dave Foreman

Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the21^st 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. 

Man Swarm: How Overpopulation is Killing the Wild World by Dave Foreman, with Laura Carroll. The first edition of Man Swarm reached the conservationist community; in this new and updated edition, Dave Foreman and seasoned editor Laura Carroll expand the readership to the masses. Lays out how the overpopulation explosion is still with us, smartly challenges those who don't believe overpopulation is real, shows that overpopulation is solvable, takes an ecological stand on immigration and its reform in the U.S. as part of the solution, and gives tangible ways all people can be part of the solution. $26 Read More | Purchase

Take Back Conservation by Dave Foreman. Aldo Leopold wrote, “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.” Take Back Conservation is for those who cannot live without wild things, who are the heart and soul of the wilderness and wildlife conservation movement. Second in the For the Wild Things series of 5 books by The Rewilding Institute. Raven’s Eye Press, 2012, 375 pages, index, glossary. Paperback $25. Read More | Purchase

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 $20.

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, $30.