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Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation

• Hardcover: 312 pages


• Publisher: Foundation for Deep Ecology; First Edition edition (November 14, 2007)


• Language: English


• ISBN-10: 1933392665


• ISBN-13: 978-1933392660


• Product Dimensions: 13.6 x 12 x 1.4 inches

Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation exposes the lasting damage done to our land, water, and air from the growing plague of jet skis, quads, dirt bikes, dune buggies, snowmobiles, and other motorized recreational craft that are penetrating the last bastions of wild America. The increase in thrillcraft use is responsible for wildlife habitat fragmentation, disturbance of sensitive wildlife, soil erosion, spread of invasive weeds, loss of silence, as well as water and air pollution. With more than one hundred shocking color photographs, Thrillcraft vividly documents the destruction caused by these machines on American public lands. Essays by activists, policy experts, scientists, and others support the photographs, explain the harm done by these machines, and critique the cultural foundation of this phenomenon. Thrillcraft bears witness to the mindless destruction of our collective natural heritage and offers a vision for a future when the howl of the wind or wolf can again be heard more often than the howl of a machine.

About the Author

Editor George Wuerthner is a professional photographer and the author of more than two dozen books on natural history and other environmental topics. He is currently the ecological projects director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology. Contributors to Thrillcraft include Rick Bass, Philip Cafaro, Dominick DellaSala, David Havlick, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Mahler, Thomas Michael Power, Paul Sutter, Howie Wolke, and more than 15 others.

Donated by the Rincon Group of the Grand Canyon Chapter of the Sierra Club. The Sierra Club is the nation's largest grass-roots environmental organization. The Rincon Group, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, promotes the Sierra Club motto to explore, enjoy and protect the planet.

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