Earth First!ers have "cracked" Glen Canyon Damn on the Utah-Arizona border; climbed high into old-growth Douglas fir in Oregon, coast redwoods in California and the rainforests of the Canada coast, and sat on tiny platforms for days or even weeks; buried themselves up to their armpits in roads being cut into wilderness in Idaho, locked themselves to cement-filled barrels at a nuke plant under construction in Tennessee and snowshoed across treacherous terrain in British Columbia to videotape and oppose wolf hunting. Activists have occupied caves in Texas to save endangered species, occupied uranium mines on the north rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona and have frequently shown up dressed as bears, owls, murrelets and trees in the offices of legislators and agencies to remind them of their jobs.

Through such tactics, for which thousands of EF!ers have been arrested around the world, the lethargic environmental movement has been re-energized and the news media have taken a new look at ecological issues. Earth First!ers, putting their bodies on the line, have given new definition to environmental activism and have shifted the spectrum of the conservation movement and raised the level of debate on the issues.

The Earth First! Direct Action Fund has no fancy offices, no professional staff, and to avoid cumbersome and restricting regulations against free speech, has no nonprofit status. In this way, our meager resources can be put where they will do the most good; on the front lines to defend the wild.

So, if you can't be out there on the front lines yourself, help support someone who is. Please send whatever you can to:

The EF! Direct Action Fund, Box 210, Canyon, CA 94516
(510) 376-7329, fax 631-7958.