Final Environmental Impact Report Running Fence. County of Sonoma California. Prepared under contract to the Sonoma County Planning Department. Environmental Science Associates, Inc. Vol 1 - October 1975, Vol 2 December 12 1975. The two volumes re bound together in the same Spiral-binding with orange paper covers marking the beginning and end of each volume. This is a library discard from the Marin County Library but it retains the original binding. A xeroxed title label has been taped onto the spine using what appears to be a clear packing tape. I do not know if that was how the book was originally published or if that was done by the library to make the book easier to find on the shelf. Library classification label is on the spine. There are library stamps and barcodes on the first blank page and a library rubber stamp on the top of the page block. There are planning department stamps in the interior of the book, but I believe they were published into the book and not stamped because they were owned by the Planning department. Those are the only library markings I see. This was not a book meant to be circulating, but was kept in the reference section. 11" x 9" vol 1: 265 pages including fold-outs, vol 2: unnumbered pages but with about half the number of pages as the front volume. There is a sample of the running fence bound in front of the back cover of volume 1 in a plastic envelope. The lower corner of the front cover and the first few pages have corner folds. There is bumping to the other corners of the front cover and slight bumping to a number of the tips of the bottom pages. There are other imperfections to the front cover. The back cover has about a 1/2" x 1/4" wedge missing from the top of the back cover by the spine. The back cover has a about 1/2" tear from the top edge of the back cover. There is a spot of wear on the bottom edge on the back cover and a corner bump on the top of the last page which sticks out beyond the back cover. There is also some wear to the paper of the covers around the spiral binding although the paper is only worn through on the top rung of the back cover. I see no other previous owner markings. No tears, other unpublished folds or creases to pages. Binding is tight as far as spiral binding can be with no looseness to pages. Not remaindered and not a facsimile reprint. For sale by Jon Wobber, bookseller since 1978. OVER-SIZE LB05a

        "Running Fence: 5.5 meters (18 feet) high, 39.4 kilometers (24.5 miles) long, extending east-west near Freeway 101, north of San Francisco, on the private properties of 59 ranchers, following the rolling hills and dropping down to the Pacific Ocean at Bodega Bay. The Running Fence was completed on September 10, 1976.
         The art project consisted of 42 months of collaborative efforts, the ranchers’ participation, eighteen public hearings, three sessions at the Superior Courts of California, the drafting of a 450-page Environmental Impact Report and the temporary use of the hills, the sky and the ocean.
         All expenses for the temporary work of art were paid by Christo and Jeanne-Claude through the sale of studies, preparatory drawings and collages, scale models and original lithographs. The artists did not accept sponsorship of any kind.
         Running Fence was made of 200,000 square meters (2.15 million square feet) of heavy woven white nylon fabric, hung from a steel cable strung between 2,050 steel poles (each 6.4 meters/21 feet long, 8.9 centimeters/3.5 inches in diameter) embedded 91 centimeters (3 feet) into the ground, using no concrete and braced laterally with guy wires (145 kilometers/90 miles of steel cable) and 14,000 earth anchors. The top and bottom edges of the 2,050 fabric panels were secured to the upper and lower cables by 350,000 hooks.
         All parts of Running Fence's structure were designed for complete removal and no visible evidence of Running Fence remains on the hills of Sonoma and Marin Counties.
         As it had been agreed with the ranchers and with county, state and federal agencies, the removal of Running Fence started 14 days after its completion and all materials were given to the ranchers.
         Running Fence crossed fourteen roads and the town of Valley Ford, leaving passage for cars, cattle and wildlife. It was designed to be viewed by following 64 kilometers (40 miles) of public roads, in Sonoma and Marin Counties." - christojeanneclaude.net/artworks/running-fence/

From what I know, much of Christo's large-scale, site-specific environmental installation art involves the process of getting all the approvals of the local and state governments, etc. These processes are actually part of the art. From what I can tell, this Environmental Impact Report is the last step before Christo could start construction of his project. - me