Earth First! Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching (1993)

Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching (Third edition, 1993)
Edited by Dave Foreman and Bill Hawood, with a Foreword by Edward Abbey

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Dedicated to Edward Abbey and inspired by his "Monkeywrench Gang", this is a manual on sabotage of establishment property. Monkeywrenching is nonviolent resistance to the destruction of natural diversity and wilderness. It is never directed against human beings or other forms of life.

Edward Abbey on Ecodefense: "I am happy to endorse the publication of Ecodefense. Never was such a book so needed, by so many, for such good reason, as here and now. Tomorrow might well be too late. This is a book that will fit handily in any saddlebag, in an creel, in any backpack, in any river runner’s ammo can – and in any picnicker’s picnic basket. No good American should ever go into the woods again without this book and, for example, a hammer and a few pounds of 60-penny nails. Spike a few trees now and then whenever you enter an area condemned to chainsaw massacre by Louisiana Pacific and its affiliated subsidiary the U.S. Forest Service. You won’t hurt the trees; they’ll be grateful for the protection; and you may save the forest. My Aunt Emma back in West Virginia has been enjoying this pleasant exercise for years. She swears by it. It’s good for the trees, it’s good for the woods, it’s good for the earth, and it’s good for the human soul. Spread the word – and carry on!"