Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal. Yule Edition. December 22, 1987. Vol. VIII, No. II. [Volume 8, Number 2]

36pp [+4pp "Earth First!: What! Not Another Environmental Group." general EF! informational center insert feature]. Newsprint [43cm x 27.5cm / 17" x 11"]. Ten bifolia (sheets folded vertically once to form forty pages). Lightly age-toned around edges and folds. Some occasional light staining in the margins. Earth First! is a group of radical environmentalists that formed in the American Southwest in the spring of 1980, founded by Dave Foreman, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, Bart Koehler, and Ron Kezar, among others. Earth First! quickly came to national attention with their "cracking" of Glen Canyon Dam activist stunt, which was performed and filmed in the spring of 1981. Edward Abbey is considered to be the "literary father" of the group. "Earth First! is the beginning of the new, bold environmental movement. And 'Earth First! The Radical Environmental Journal' is its voice. No compromise in the defense of Mother Earth!" (Dave Foreman, Editor). Rear cover half-page illustration is untitled by Brush Wolf and depicts a rattlesnake with a monkey wrench in place of the rattler at the end of the table. Cover articles: "Crackdown in Malaysia: Malaysia Arrests Penan & SAM Leaders" by Denise Voelker, "Fishing Bridge EIS A Farce" by Randall Restless, "National Day of Protest Set Against the Forest Service" by Roger Featherstone. Other articles include "BLM vs. the Pygmy Forest" by Randall Restless (page 4), "Forest Service Offers Box-Death Hollow Wilderness to Drillers" by Fred Swanson (p5), "Deep Ecology and Its Critics" by Bill Devall (p18), "Court Spares California Cougars!" by Michael Robinson (p25), amongst others. EF! Local Groups Merchandise page on page 9. The "Armed With Vision" poetry page is on page 31. Earth First! Music (page 34), and Earth First! Bookstore (page 35). Many illustrations throughout. Advertisements at the rear.…