Delve Deeper into If a Tree Falls A Film by Marshall Curry

This multi-media resource list, compiled by Shaun Briley, of the Liddick, Donald R. Eco- America’s forests Public Library, Terrorism: Radical

includes books, films and other Environmental and Animal Dietrich, William. The final materials related to the issues Liberation Movements. forest : big trees, forks, and the presented in the film If a Tree Westport, Conn. : Praeger, Pacific Northwest. Seattle : Falls. 2006. In this book, Liddick University of Washington Press, provides an introduction to radical 2010. Dietrich provides an If a Tree Falls: A Story of the domestic movements and the overview of the various explores tactics that they use. perspectives in the debate over two of America’s most pressing logging in America’s last remaining issues — environmentalism and Long, Douglas. Ecoterrorism. ancient forest. terrorism — by lifting the veil on a New York, NY: Facts on File,

radical environmental group the FBI 2004. Long gives a brief overview Foster, Bryan. Wild Logging: A calls America’s “number one of ecoterrorism, including a Guide to Environmentally and domestic terrorism threat.” Daniel chronology of events, glossary of Economically Sustainable McGowan, a former member of the terms, and annotated bibliography. Forestry. Missoula, Mont. : Earth Liberation Front, faces life in Mountain Press Pub. Co., 2003. prison for two multimillion-dollar Scarce, Rik. Eco-Warriors: Foster suggests a compromise in arsons against Oregon timber Understanding the Radical forest management between companies. What turned this Environmental Movement. environmentalists and the timber working-class kid from Queens into Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast industry. an eco-warrior? Marshall Curry Press, 2006. Scarce explains the

(Oscar®-nominated Street Fight, history and motives of several Hirt, Paul W. A of POV 2005) provides a nuanced and radical environmental groups. Optimism: Management of the provocative account that is part National Forests since World coming-of-age story, part Pickering, Leslie James. Earth War Two. Lincoln : University of cautionary tale and part cops-and- Liberation Front 1997-2002. Nebraska Press, 1996. Hirt robbers thriller. Portland, OR : Arissa Media provides a historical examination of ______Group, 2007. Pickering, who once the way the nation’s forests were ADULT NONFICTION served as the spokesperson for the used for resource extraction in the Earth Liberation Front, provides a second half of the 20th Century. history of the organization’s American environmentalism formative years. Steen, Harold K. The U.S. Forest

McKibben, Bill.; Gore, Albert. Service: A History. Durham, N.C. Roselle, Mike & Mahan, Josh. American Earth : environmental : Forest History Society in Tree Spiker: From Earth First! to writing since Thoreau. New association with University of Lowbagging: My Struggles in York, NY : Literary Classics of Washington Press, 2004. Steen Radical Environmental Action. the United States : Distributed offers a broad view of the Forest New York : St. Martin's Press, to the trade by Penguin Putnam, Service, including its controversies 2009. Co-founder of Earth First! 2008. This collection of works by and conflicts over use of natural and the Rainforest Action Network, over 100 writers highlights resources. Roselle recounts his experiences as America’s contribution to literature a radical environmental activist. about the environment.

Radical environmentalism Zakin, Susan. Coyotes and Town Righter, Robert W. The Battle Dogs: EarthFirst! and the over Hetch Hetchy: America's Foreman, Dave. Confessions of Environmental Movement. Most Controversial Dam and the an Eco-Warrior. New York : Tuscon: University of Birth of Modern Harmony Books, 1991. Foreman, Press, 2002. Environmentalism. New York : a co-founder of the radical Zakin describes the evolution of Oxford University Press, 2005. environmental movement Earth Dave Foreman from the Wilderness Righter provides an account of the First! lays out his beliefs and his Society’s top Washington lobbyist to struggle to save a valley in experiences within the movement. leader of the radical environmental Yosemite by John Muir and the group Earth First!. The book also recently founded Sierra Club. Kuipers, Dean. Operation Bite contains a good overview of the Back: Rod Coronado's War to overall development of the U.S. Wapner, Paul. Living Through Save American Wilderness. New environmental movement during the End of Nature: The Future of York : Bloomsbury, 2009. Kuipers that period. American Environmentalism. provides an account of

Wapner argues that environmental extremism by Reactions environmentalists need to shift their focusing on Rob Coronado, one of

focus from wilderness preservation the movement’s most active Berlau, John. Eco-Freaks: to the encouragement of nature in members. Environmentalism Is Hazardous urban and agricultural spaces. to Your Health! Nashville :

Nelson Current, 2006. Journalist

John Berlau challenges many of the

ideas that fuel the radical

environmental movement and

warns of the dangers of untamed

nature.

Delve Deeper into If a Tree Falls A Film by Marshall Curry

Helvarg, David. The War against ADULT FICTION Confessions of an eco-terrorist. the Greens: The "Wise-Use" A film by Peter Jay Brown, Movement, the New Right, and Abbey, Edward. The Monkey 2010. TRT: 90 min. Confessions of Anti-environmental Violence. Wrench Gang. New York : an eco-terrorist is a documentary Boulder, Colo. : Johnson Books, HarperCollins, 2006. Originally about a group of seafaring 2004. Helvarg describes the ways published in the 1970’s, this novel conservationists, regularly featured that corporations and proponents of focuses on a group of on Animal Planet’s free markets have sought to environmental warriors and gave series, who ram illegal boats challenge the environmental birth to the sabotage phrase and make life difficult for those who movement. “monkey wrenching”. abuse the marine environment.

Potter, Will. Green is the New Evans, Nicholas. The Divide. Red: an Insider’s Account of a New York: Putnam, 2005. From Movement Under Siege. San the author of The Horse Whisperer Francisco : City Lights Books, comes a tale of a Montana girl who 2011. Potter reflects on the FBI’s becomes embroiled in the world of response to radical eco-terrorists. environmentalism with an emphasis on the questionable use of the term Henry, April. Torched. New “eco-terrorism.” York, NY : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2009. This novel follows the story of a teen who infiltrates a band of Domestic protest and security eco-terrorists for the FBI (for young adult readers). Likar, Lawrence E. Eco-Warriors, Nihilistic Terrorists, and the Matson, Suzanne. The tree sitter Environment. Santa Barbara, a novel. New York : Norton, Calif : Praeger, 2011. Likar, a 2006. Matson tells the story of a retired FBI agent discusses the college student who leaves it all security implications surrounding behind to fight logging in Oregon the environmental movement. until the violence of her peers causes her to reconsider. Reed, T.V. The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES Civil Rights Movement to the

Streets of Seattle. Minneapolis : An Inconvenient Truth. A film by University of Minnesota Press, Davis Guggenheim, 2006. TRT: 2005. Read outlines the role that 100 min. An Inconvenient Truth is activism has played in recent a passionate and inspirational look American history and continues to at former Vice President Al Gore’s play today. fervent crusade to halt global

warming’s deadly progress by Thomas, Janet. The Battle in exposing the myths and Seattle: The Story Behind and misconception that surround it. Beyond the WTO

Demonstrations. Golden, Colo. : Behind the Mask: the Story of Fulcrum Pub., 2000. Activist People who Risk Everything to Janet Thomas provides an account Save Animals. A film by of the 1999 anti-World Trade . Uncaged Films, Organization protests in Seattle. 2006. TRT: 72 min. Behind the

Mask is a documentary by and Turchie, Terry & Puckett, about the Front. Kathleen. the American

Terrorist: The FBI's War on Butterfly. A film by Doug Homegrown Terror. Palisades, Wolens, 2000. TRT: 79 min. In NY : History Pub. Co., 2007. A December 1997, Julia Hill climbed a clinical psychologist who worked thousand-year-old redwood tree with the FBI analyses the mindset vowing to not come down until it of the domestic terrorist. was saved from being clear-cut.

Wolens’ film is a primer on forest

issues and direct-action

environmentalism, but most of all,

it is about the spiritual journey of a

determined, articulate woman

nicknamed Butterfly who saved an

ancient tree she called Luna.