A reign of violence and intimidation, including arson, bombings, rape, assault and even murder, was unleashed against environmental activists and government employees by proponents of the so-called "Wise Use" movement. In Arkansas, a Greenpeace toxics coordinator comes home to find her house burned down; in Maine an anti-logging activist has his house set on fire while he's in it, and barely escapes with his life. In Nevada, a ranger with the U.S. Forest Service has bombs go off in his office and outside his home, with shards of glass penetrating the sofa where his wife and two daughters had been sitting just minutes earlier. David Helvarg, in The War Against the Greens, ripped the veneer of legitimacy off this right-wing backlash that stretched from armed militias to the halls of Congress, exposing the public lands corporations, political operatives and fringe groups who set out to destroy America's environmental protections by any means necessary. First published by Sierra Club Books in 1994, the book had an immediate impact on public policy and law enforcement, helping to curb the extremists and their allies. But ten years later, Helvarg finds that George W.

Bush has opened wide.