Abstract
AbstractIn response to unannounced herbicide spraying on electric line easements,OzarkHighlands' residents confronted their rural electric cooperative and requested they cease; and when that failed, they asked me to produce a documentary film and looked into legal recourse. This paper presents the ethnohistorical and ethnographic research foundation for the applied anthropology project that became the documentary filmThe Natural State of America. This includes exploration of the early 20th‐century battle over chemical cattle dips for tick eradication and late 20th‐century back‐to‐the‐lander activism againstU.S. Forest Service herbicide applications and the results of contemporary participant observation with activists combating their electric cooperative's spray program. The concluding discussion emphasizes environmental justice and the relationships between biocide opposition, subsistence strategies, and ecological awareness, highlighting discrepancies and common ground among the three phases of antibiocide activism.
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