Earth First! Collection [Environmentalism] Nature

22 items: 8 issues of the Earth First! newspaper(1983-1991); 1 program for the Earth First! Festival (1983); 4 decals; 1 patch; 1 child's tee short; 2 calendars (1984-1985); 5 newsletters. Small collection of material from this environmental group, that includes a collection of newspapers and other ephemera. Earth First! was an environmental group founded by Dave Foreman, Ron Kezar, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, and Bart Koehler in 1980 as an alternative to more mainstream groups such as the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. EF! describes itself as "pure, hard-line, radical," and advocates supplementing lobbying practices with more direct tactics such as "demonstrations" and "confrontations." In addition to supporting traditional conservation, EF! calls for the re-creation of wilderness through the construction of a national system of ecological preserves in which dams, roads, and other traces of human activity will be removed. "No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth." Rare.