Editing David Foreman (section)

{{Short description|American environmentalist (1947–2022)}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = David Foreman
| other_names        = Dave Foreman
| birth_date         = {{birth date|1946|10|18}}
| birth_place        = [[Albuquerque, New Mexico]], U.S.
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2022|9|19|1946|10|18}}
| death_place        = Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
| education          = San Antonio Junior College, [[University of New Mexico]]
| known_for          = Activism, writing
| spouse={{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Debbie Sease|1976||end=div.}}
* {{marriage|Nancy Morton|1986|2021|end=d.}}<ref name=NYTObit>{{Cite web|title=David Foreman, Hard-Line Environmentalist, Dies at 75|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/david-foreman-dead.html|newspaper=The New York Times|last=Risen|first=Clay|date=September 28, 2022|access-date=September 28, 2022}}</ref>
}}
| movement           = [[Radical environmentalism]], [[Nativism (politics)|nativism]]
}}

'''William David Foreman''' (October 18, 1946 – September 19, 2022) was an American advocate for the conservation of wild lands and wildlife. He was a co-founder of three organizations: [[Earth First!]], the [[Wildlands Network|Wildlands Project]], and the [[Rewilding Institute]].<ref name="az-obit">{{cite news |last1=Davis |first1=Tony |title='Eco-warrior,' former Tucsonan Dave Foreman dies at 75 |url=https://tucson.com/news/local/eco-warrior-former-tucsonan-dave-foreman-dies-at-75/article_74a1e9de-3b74-11ed-86aa-47add5e69751.html |access-date=17 January 2023 |agency=Arizona Daily Star |date=24 September 2022}}</ref> A prominent member of the [[radical environmentalism]] movement beginning in the 1980s,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last1=Grigoriadis|first1=Vanessa|date=2011-06-21|title=The Rise and Fall of the Eco-Radical Underground|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-eco-radical-underground-245345/|access-date=2020-11-13|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref> his advocacy and actions shifted in the early 1990s into collaborations with professionals in the field of [[conservation biology]].<ref name="az-obit" />