DescriptionThis thesis is an examination of local grassroots efforts in southern New Jersey to combat the construction of a planned supersonic jet airport in the ecologically sensitive New Jersey Pinelands. While remembered as a archetypal example of 1960s environmentalism, the residents who appear in this thesis exhibited a uniquely working-class understanding of their environment and their beliefs challenge our assumptions of the political and cultural underpinnings of environmental activism in the Twentieth Century.