Billboarding
Billboarding is one form of
ecodefense in the form of
monkeywrenching. It is the act of cutting down, burning, and/or defacing highway billboards. The American novelist
Edward Abbey seems to have greatly advanced (if not out-right advocated) the art of billboarding starting around the year
1950 in and around the
New Mexico city of
Albuquerque. Given the size and weight of modern billboards, billboarders consider billboarding an art form as well as an ethical, moral, and justified act.
Billboarding takes a minor role in the Abbey novel The Monkey Wrench Gang.