On September 19, 2022, Dave Foreman, champion of the wild and Wilderness, passed away at home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, surrounded by friends and family. Activist, conservationist, writer, orator, outdoorsman, historian, and friend to many, Dave leaves an important legacy. The public knows him primarily as the head of the spear for Earth First! in the 1980s, but after those wild years he went on to be a co-founder of The Wildlands Project with many prominent wildlife biologists and conservationists, The Rewilding Institute, and other initiatives including the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, now New Mexico Wild.
Dave inspired and mentored many conservationists in his half-century career. He led by example and was uncompromising in his advocacy and defense of wild places and wild life. This book is a compilation from some of his friends and admirers, and the words of those with whom he worked from the late 1960s until his untimely death testify to his influence, his growth, and the reach of his work. He was not able to write his memoir, which he would have titled Wildeor, which he called free, wild, untamed creatures living in nature. Among those offering tributes are writer Terry Tempest Williams, prominent conservation biologist Reed Noss, author and aural historian Jack Loeffler, and Dave’s long-time right-hand man in all endeavors, now Executive Director of The Rewilding Institute, John Davis.
Susan Morgan enjoyed a long career as a conservationist, serving many years as president of The Rewilding Institute. John C. Miles, environmental educator and historian, taught Environmental Studies at Western Washington University for over four decades. Both are now retired in Taos, New Mexico.
See a book review in the Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Dave Foreman Remains My Hero, My Truth Teller, and My Conscience by Terry Tempest Williams
- An Inspiring Fifty Years by Susan Morgan
- Remembering a Father Tree by John Davis
- My Support of Dave’s Philosophy by Kirk C. Robinson, Ph.D.
- Big Brother Dave by Roxanne Pacheco
- Dave Finds His Mission
- Remembering Dave Foreman by Camilla Fox
- Absolute Truth and Honesty by Lynn Cottin
- Earth First!
- Dave Foreman & Me: Grizzled Galoots in Cahoots by Bart Koehler
- Stand in Front of that ‘Dozer by B.N. Koehler
- Back in the Day by Howie Wolke
- He Changed the Course of My Life by Brad Meiklejohn
- Dave Foreman Absolutely Put the Earth First by Captain Paul Watson
- Muses Come in all Shapes – for Dave by Gary Lawless
- Stump Sacred by Gary Lawless
- Dave Foreman: American by Susan Zakin
- Moving the Needle by Andy Kerr
- Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
- How David Foreman Inspired Me and Our Nevada Wilderness Advocacy Community by Karen (Tanner) Boeger
- It’s Hard to Imagine a World Without Dave by Shaaron Netherton
- Ode to Dave Foreman by Uncle Ramon
- Long Conversations Over the Years by Bruce Hamilton
- Foreman on the Front Lines by Art Goodtimes
- Dave Foreman Has Gone Back to the Pleistocene by Jamie Sayen
- Dave Foreman: A Great Bio-Ethicist Who Stood Strong by Jack Loeffler
- A Leap of Faith: The Wildlands Project
- Goodbye, Dave, We Love and Thank You… by Kris Tompkins
- Dave Foreman’s Legacy by David Johns
- Dave Foreman: Advocate for the Big Wild by George Wuerthner
- The Big Outside
- Dave Foreman: Mentor by Jack Humphrey
- A Giant in the Struggle by Sam Hitt
- Honoring a Big Thinker by Brian Miller
- Healing the Wounds: Goal-Setting
- Dave Foreman Shaped My Life as a Conservationist by Reed Noss
- I Think Mother Nature Was Crying… by Bob Howard
- To Dave by Susie O’Keeffe
- Continue to Think Big, Be Bold, Push Boundaries, and Save the Wild… by Kathleen H. Fitzgerald
- Population: The Toughest Issue
- A Person of Conscience and a Force for Consciousness by Warren Hern
- He Spoke for the Wild World by Karen Shragg
- The Rewilding Institute
- Do We Conservationists De-wild Ourselves?
- Campfire Lessons: Further Thoughts on Following Dave Foreman by John Davis
- It Was Just Like the Old Days by Jason Kahn
- On a Necessary Letter to the Editor of The New York Times by Don Waller
- Big, Wild, Connected by Lavinia Currier
- Wolves and Wilderness by David Parsons
- Hollywood Should Film All Westerns in Spain
- It’s in the Mail by Susan Morgan
- Bigger Than Life by Eileen Crist
- Dave Shared My Love of Maps by Kurt Menke
- Dave Foreman, Scholar Extraordinaire by John C. Miles
- The New Mexico Wilderness Alliance
- A Towering Presence by Mark Allison
- Dave Foreman: Wise Guy by Bron Taylor
- A Great One for the Ages by Louisa Wilcox
- Afterword: Happy Trails
- Dave Has the Last Word
- Acknowledgements
