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4 unusual facts about The Monkey Wrench Gang


The Monkey Wrench Gang

The types of actions are said to have influenced the formation of environmental organizations such as Greenpeace and the Earth Liberation Front.

The book may have been the inspiration for Dave Foreman's and Mike Roselle's creation of Earth First!, a direct action environmental organization that often advocates much of the minor vandalism depicted in the book.

As of 2012, a film adaptation of the book, to be directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, is being planned.

Their greatest hatred is focused on the Glen Canyon Dam, a monolithic edifice of concrete that dams a beautiful, wild river, and which the monkeywrenchers seek to destroy.



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