ABSTRACT
"The blockade of the Bald Mountain Road," Roselle announced immediately afterward, "had begun, after months of planning and preparations; so too, began the nonviolent struggle to save all wilderness." "It's time for a warrior society to rise up out of the Earth and throw itself in front of the juggernaut of destruction, to be antibodies against the human pox that's ravaging this precious beautiful planet". Bald Mountain was not particularly attractive land. Running along the northern boundary of the Kalmiopsis, it was to ride the high ridge from Flat Top to Bald Mountain between the Illinois River and Silver Creek, opening up 150,000 acres of big trees to cutting. The emergence of Earth First! Signified something big and strange going down in America. By the early 1980s new biocentrist groups were multiplying. Combining a desire for a spiritual revival with media savvy and a knack for forming alliances through networking, these new activists were changing the rules of the game.
