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Welcome to “Dave
Foreman’s Around the Campfire”
(Latest Issues of Campfire Are Posted on the
Blog)
Dear Friends,
Nearly twenty-five years ago, I
started writing a regular column called “Around the Campfire” for
The Earth First! Journal, which I then edited. I first
wrote it on a mechanical typewriter. With the breakup of Earth
First! in 1990, John Davis and I launched Wild Earth, and I
continued “Around the Campfire.” The Wildlands Project
discontinued Wild Earth two years ago for lack of funding,
and “Around the Campfire” lost a home.
During the quarter century of
“Around the Campfire,” I’ve tried to educate, provoke, and activate
conservationists on a sweeping range of ideas, issues, and subjects.
Material from “Around the Campfire” has gone into my books,
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior, The Big Outside, Rewilding North
America, and the forthcoming The Myth(s) of the Environmental
Movement. I’ve meant “Campfire” as a broadside of yore,
such as Tom Paine and other patriots wrote during the War for
Independence.
In that spirit, I emailed my
“Nature’s Crisis” essay in March of 2005. Many of you further
distributed it and it was printed in several publications, including
a longer version, “Take Back Conservation,” in The International
Journal of Wilderness.
I like real magazines and real
books; electronic words seem, well, effervescent—not in how they
tingle but in their apparent briefness of life. Some of us
would love to bring Wild Earth back as a real magazine, but
there is no funding to do so. Grudgingly, then, parsimony
drives us to electronic publishing.
Mind you, “Dave Foreman’s Around
the Campfire” over email is no substitute for Wild Earth, but
it is something to keep the conservation pot stirred. The
Rewilding Institute will zap it out at least four times a year,
though we don’t intend to clutter your electronic mailbox. It
is free and we encourage you to further distribute it. The
first issue was emailed to subscribers in early September. It
and all future Campfires will be archived here.
If you would like to be on the
distribution list to receive Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire by
email in the future, please contact Susan Morgan as instructed
below.
It’s appropriate that Susan Morgan
is publisher of “Around the Campfire.” Susan and I have worked
together on conservation for a third of a century in The Wilderness
Society, Earth First!, The Wildlands Project, and The Rewilding
Institute. Though she is a wee bit older than I am, she is
years younger in her understanding of electronic communications.
I really mean it when I say that
this incarnation of “Around the Campfire” would not be possible
without her. Thanks, Susan! Likewise, John Davis, former
editor for The Earth First! Journal and Wild Earth, is
editor for “Around the Campfire.”
I am most pleased with this,
because I always feel naked without John carefully dressing my words
before they step out the door. John may pen columns now and
then, himself. Jack Humphrey, Webmaster for The Rewilding
Institute, is also key to this operation, particularly for the
seeming magic by which it drifts through the ether. You are
invited to visit The Rewilding Institute’s website at
http://www.rewilding.org.
Happy Trails
-Dave Foreman
“Dave Foreman’s Around the
Campfire” is published electronically irregularly as a free service
by The Rewilding Institute and its Partners. Susan Morgan is
the Publisher and den mother. John Davis is Editor and Jack
Humphrey is Webmaster. To receive “Around the Campfire” or to
unsubscribe, contact Susan Morgan at
smorgan1964@earthlink.net.
Please forward “Dave Foreman’s
Around the Campfire” to conservationists on your address book and to
conservation discussion groups to which you have access. We
apologize if you receive multiple postings. Permission is
given to reprint “Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire” so long as it
is published in its entirety and with this subscription information.
It will make a good regular feature
for your group’s newsletter, either printed or electronic.
Please contact Susan before reprinting it. “Dave Foreman’s
Around the Campfire” also appears on The Rewilding Website; past
issues are archived there and available.
“Dave Foreman’s Around the
Campfire” has no subscription charge. It is funded by the
Rewilding Partners, who are donors to The Rewilding Institute.
If you like “Dave Foreman’s Around the Campfire,” please go to
the
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