WEA Paul Petzoldt Leadership Award Winner 1997

Dave Foreman is a former environmental lobbyist and Sierra Club board member who became disillusioned with the democratic process.  So he founded the notorious "direct action" environmental organization Earth First!  He is the author of Eco-Defense: A Field Guide to Monkey Wrenching, and also authored Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. Foreman left Earth First! in 1989 and founded the Wildlands Project, which seeks to restrict human civilization to limited patches of the Earth and wall off the rest for nature to rule.  He is presently the publisher of Wild Earth, the periodical of the Wildlands Project.