Public lands are under threat. We make the gear, you fund the defense, and we do it together.
In Ed Abbey's writing, "Hayduke Lives!" was the rallying cry that brought a scattered underground together — ranchers, river rats, radicals, anyone who loved the land enough to do something about it. People who didn't agree on much else agreed on this: the rivers, the forests, the deserts, the open country — it's worth defending.
The Monkey Wrench Gang came out in 1975. Hayduke Lives! followed in 1990 as its sequel. Four decades later, the story those books were telling is still going.
Today, 88 million acres of public land are under active threat. The mechanisms are different — quieter, more bureaucratic — but the basic story is the same. Extraction and privatization, dressed up in process. And the response, if there's going to be one, still has to come from people who disagree on plenty but agree on this one thing.
That's why we started Hayduke Lives.
We're not a conservation organization. We're not a lobbying group. We're a small shop that makes gear — t-shirts, hats, patches, flags, stickers — and uses it to fund the people who are doing that work on the ground. Every item is made to order, so nothing sits in a warehouse waiting to be bought. Everything is ethically sourced, because the whole point is to do this with some integrity. And a portion of every sale goes directly to organizations working to protect public lands.
The monkey wrench symbolism was always an invitation, not a credential. You don't have to know Abbey to be here. You just have to care about the places we all share. The trails, the rivers, the high desert, the old-growth forest at the edge of the road. The land that belongs to everyone, which means it's everyone's to protect.
If you buy something from this shop, you're funding that work. A hat becomes a donation. A patch becomes a signal. And when enough people send that signal, it adds up to something real.
The good fight continues. We all raise the wrench together.
Hayduke Lives!
The Monkey Wrench Gang came out in 1975. Hayduke Lives! followed in 1990 as its sequel. Four decades later, the story those books were telling is still going.
Today, 88 million acres of public land are under active threat. The mechanisms are different — quieter, more bureaucratic — but the basic story is the same. Extraction and privatization, dressed up in process. And the response, if there's going to be one, still has to come from people who disagree on plenty but agree on this one thing.
That's why we started Hayduke Lives.
We're not a conservation organization. We're not a lobbying group. We're a small shop that makes gear — t-shirts, hats, patches, flags, stickers — and uses it to fund the people who are doing that work on the ground. Every item is made to order, so nothing sits in a warehouse waiting to be bought. Everything is ethically sourced, because the whole point is to do this with some integrity. And a portion of every sale goes directly to organizations working to protect public lands.
The monkey wrench symbolism was always an invitation, not a credential. You don't have to know Abbey to be here. You just have to care about the places we all share. The trails, the rivers, the high desert, the old-growth forest at the edge of the road. The land that belongs to everyone, which means it's everyone's to protect.
If you buy something from this shop, you're funding that work. A hat becomes a donation. A patch becomes a signal. And when enough people send that signal, it adds up to something real.
The good fight continues. We all raise the wrench together.
Hayduke Lives!