Homestead - Robert F. Mueller's log of several years' worth of homesteading back in the late 1970s.Big Wilderness in the East - Proposing the Shenandoah Wilderness, mostly in northern Augusta County, Virginia.
Valley and Ridge: A Vision of the Land - The mountain forests, still recovering from turn-of-the-century lumbering devastation, are again building toward the extended old growth deciduous-conifer ecosystem whose potential for wildlife and indigenous biologic diversity can only be guessed at from sketchy historical records.
Appalachian Clearcutters Flunk Siliviculture - Why clearcutting doesn't serve the ecological purpose it is claimed by its advocates to serve.
Of Pipedreams, Science and the Wilderness - It's called "nanotechnology." This was revealed in an interview of MIT zealots on National Public Radio on June 24 of this year. The prefix "nano" means "very small" and in this case refers to ordering manipulations on the atomic scale. (From Earth First!, February 2, 1987, page 27)
Wilderness Proposals - The George Washington National Forest - Central Appalachian Wilderness in Perspective - Management of the George Washington National Forest is in a state of flux, as it is in the National Forest System as a whole. In the evolving mental climate of the administrators, the true function of big wilderness-as the imperative for biodiversity and the evolutionary process-is still only faintly grasped. (from Wild Earth Vol.1 (3), pp 62-67) .
Forest Ecology in Brief - A digest of forest ecology basics for novices or children.
Free Range Science on the World Wide Web - an editorial.
Energy in a Real World - An approach to energy that arises out of Nature itself and which defines the limits of compatible energy interactions with that Nature.
The Wilderness Bill for the Jefferson National Forest - do your part to show your support.
Mountain Top Removal and Valley Filling - the greatest threat to all we hold dear in Appalachia.
Wilderness - the Global Connection - When we come to consider the global wilderness as its own justification our welfare automatically follows, because we always have been and will be part of that wilderness as long as we survive as a species.
Ecological Preserves for the Eastern Mountains - The acreage devoted to ecosystem preservation is far less in the East than in the West, even when the proportion of public lands in the two regions are compared. Let's do something about it. (republished, June 2003)
The Monongahela National Forest - An overview of the possibility for large wildernesses in this National Forest in West Virginia., (republished, Feb. 2003)
About the Proposed Ernie Dickerman Wilderness, July 2001
Report to our supporters, April 1999
An amusing response from the Virginia Division of Natural Heritage.
Emergency! Blackwater Canyon is to be logged! do what you can to stop them.
A flyer about what is wrong with the logging practice called clearcutting.
Documentation of abuses and violations perpetrated by the United States Forest Service at their proposed Elk Mountain Timber Sale in the Monongahela National Forest.
Correspondence documenting Forest Service Data Manipulation perpetrated by the United States Forest Service for their proposed Burner Mountain/Mountain Lick Timber Sales in the Monongahela National Forest.
Correspondence documenting Forest Service Data Manipulation perpetrated by the United States Forest Service for the Whitetop Opportunity Area in the Jefferson National Forest.
Links of Like Minds
Environmental Ethicists LinksFriends of Wetlands - one of the few grassroots groups devoted to the protection of wetlands in general. A good combination of science and political savvy.
Patagonia - a visionary and public-spirited company, assists small grass-roots citizen groups in the struggle for a livable planet.
POCLAD - Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy - "Instigating democratic conversations and actions that contest the authority of corporations to govern."
Save America's Forests - To stop the downward spiral taking place within America's public lands, we must become Citizens in Action. We must push Congress to protect our wild treasures.