>[!abstract] >Monkeywrenching, or ecotage, is sabotage carried out for environmental reasons. In fiction, the practice of ecotage was popularized in Edward Abbey's 1975 anarchistic novel *The Monkey Wrench Gang* and its sequel *Hayduke Lives!* (1990). In their 1972 environmental-action book *Ecotage!*, Sam Love and David Obst claimed to have coined the word "ecotage" by combining "ecology" and "sabotage" to describe a "branch of tactical biology" (Wikipedia, 2025). >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): [[Environmental activism]] >- **West** (similar): [[Ecotage]] (ecological sabotage) >- **East** (different): [[Lawful protest]] >- **South** (downstream): —