Thrillcraft

The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation

George Wuerthner

Our collective natural heritage is at risk. Thirst for motorized recreation in America is creating lasting environmental impact upon our remaining wild lands. With over 100 stirring color photographs and powerful essays from policy experts, scientists, and environmental activists, Thrillcraft bears witness to the senseless destruction that is risking access to the beauty, silence, and splendor of our country’s natural world for future generations.

Thrillcraft 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. In stark detail the book describes how offroad vehicle 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.

This important and beautiful tome will be a treasured addition to any environmentalist’s or conservationist’s library.

About the Editor

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.