“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.”
I didn’t give much thought to Ed Abbey until a couple decades later, after moving to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Being a magnet to dissidents, I’d recently made friends with a U.S. Postal Service worker named Chris England. There was some controversy at the time about The Bridger-Teton National Forest issuing gas and oil drilling permits up Cache Creek Canyon, a drainage which runs right through the town of Jackson. Not yet knowing anything about it, I picked up an issue of The Jackson Hole News one Wednesday, and there was Chris on the front page. Chained to the front door of the Bridger-Teton Forest Offices, in protest against the drilling.
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Breathtaking! Brilliant! Inspiring!