Bonnie follows him out of loyalty to Doc. Doc gives up first because of his Hippocratic oath, and he helps Bishop Love, who has a heart attack. The group is starving and dehydrated, so they decide to surrender. This leads to a series of actions intended to take out two small bridges in Utah State which involves helicopters, dogs, heavy artillery and other men who are searching for them. Dudley Love’s “Search and Rescue team” (130).

The gang also attracts suspicion from local vigilante Bishop J. They know that this may be impossible but they continue to travel and cause problems for construction sites and vehicles. Over the next few weeks, the gang commits more acts of sabotage to destroy the Glen Canyon Dam. The next morning, Hayduke goes out on his own to pull up survey stakes plotting where this new road will go.

They’ll drain the oil, let the motors run and walk away so that the engines will seize up, damaging the machines. The gang’s first operation is to tamper with the bulldozers and other vehicles at the site of a new road’s construction. Only one member carries a gun since violence isn’t allowed on this mission. The next day, however, they start planning what supplies they need to blow up the dam and begin gathering explosives and food in case they get stuck out there for some time. They talk about it for a while but don’t decide to do anything yet. One of them suggests blowing up the dam that has blocked his favorite fishing spot. On a river-rafting trip, three friends complain about the new power lines and how they’ve ruined their rivers. A K Sarvis (aka Doc), Bonnie Abbzug, and Joseph “Seldom Seen” Smith to fight against industrialization in their beloved native region-the American Southwest This character forms a gang along with three others: Dr. A man named George Hayduke is planting explosives on it when he triggers it prematurely with his hard hat, which causes the middle to crack open like an eggshell. It takes place at the site of a newly built bridge between Arizona and Utah over Glen Canyon. The book was written by Edward Abbey, an author and activist who died in 1989. 1-Page Summary of The Monkey Wrench Gang Overall SummaryĪ story about a group of environmental activists in the American Southwest.

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