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In this first volume of The Sylvan Jungle, the editors present a scholarly edition of the first chapter, “Exploring Meinong’s Jungle,” of Richard Routley’s 1000-plus page book,¬† Exploring Meinong’s Jungle and Beyond.¬†Going against the Quinean orthodoxy, Routley‚Äôs aim was to support Meinong‚Äôs idea that we can truthfully refer to non-existent and even impossible objects, like Superman, unicorns and the (infamous) round-square cupola on Berkeley College. The tools of non-classical logic at Routley‚Äôs disposal enabled him to update Meinong‚Äôs project for a new generation. This volume begins with an Introduction from Dominic Hyde, ‚ÄúThe ‚ÄòJungle Book‚Äô in Context,‚Äù an essay that situates¬†Exploring Meinong‚Äôs Jungle and Beyond¬†historically. We provide the original Preface by Routley, followed by Chapter 1: ‚ÄúExploring Meinong‚Äôs Jungle and Beyond.‚Äù In Chapter 2, Nicholas Griffin argues that Sylvan‚Äôs project was insufficiently radical with his essay, ‚ÄúWhy the Original Theory of Items Didn‚Äôt (Quite) Go Far Enough.‚Äù Sylvan revisits his position from this time in Chapter 3, with his article, ‚ÄúRe-Exploring Item-Theory.‚Äù Filippo Casati, who has worked in the Routley Archives then takes up the question of the future of Sylvan‚Äôs research program in his essay, ‚ÄúThe Future Perfect of¬†Exploring Meinong‚Äôs Jungle.‚Äù Iconic and iconoclastic Australian philosopher Richard Routley (n√© Sylvan) published¬†Exploring Meinong‚Äôs Jungle and Beyond¬†in 1980. This work has fallen out of print, yet without great fanfare it has influenced two generations of philosophers and logicians.