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Thrillcraft

The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation

by George Wuerthner

Table of Contents

Foreword: Thrillcraft, Slob Recreation, and Eco-Terrorism, Douglas Tompkins vii

Introduction, George Wuerthner xxxv

Part I ESTRANGEMENT FROM NATURE

Introduction 3

Mind and Machine: A Brief History of Human Domestication, Tom Butler 5

The Twilight of Mechanized Lumpenleisure: An Elegy for Bread, Circuses, and Jet Skis, James Howard Kunstler 21

Off-Road Vehicles and Deep Ecology: Cultural Clash and Alienation from the Natural World, David Orton 27

Teaching Disrespect: The Ethics of Off-Road Vehicle Use on America’s Public Lands, Philip Cafaro, Ph.D. 31

The Human Cost of Silence Lost: How a Noisy Environment Hurts Our Health, Richard Mahler 37

Fourteen Gardens: Reflections of an Activist, Rick Bass 43

A Wicked Conflict: The Impacts of Motorized Encroachment on Grizzly Bears, Brian L. Horejsi, Ph.D. 113

No Wild, No Wildlife: The Threat from Motorized Recreation, Barrie Gilbert, Ph.D. 119

Invaders on the Move: Roads and Off-Road Vehicle Use as Major Causes of Weed Invasions, Jonathan L. Gelbard, Ph.D. 125

Raging with Machines: Off-Road Vehicles in the Deserts of the Southwestern United States, Daniel R. Patterson 131

Shredded Wildlands: Impacts of Off-Road Vehicles in Alaska, Ray Bane 135

Snowmobiles and Public Lands: Unacceptable Impacts on a Winter Landscape, D. J. Schubert 141

Troubled Waters: Protecting Our Communities and Ourselves from Jet Skis, Sean Smith and Carl Schneebeck 147

Part IV BEARING WITNESS ACROSS AMERICA

Introduction 153

Part V STOPPING ECO-TERRORISM ON OUR AMERICAN SOIL

Introduction 193

Turning the Ship Around: A Victory against All-Terrain Vehicles in Adirondack Park, Peter Bauer 195

Protecting the Path of the Pronghorn: The Motorized Threat to Wildlife Migration Patterns, Meredith Taylor 201

Miles from Everywhere: Roads, Off-Road Vehicles, and Watershed Restoration on Public Lands, Bethanie Walder 207

Part VI A LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Introduction 217

Part VII A CHOICE FOR PUBLIC LANDS

Afterword 229

Two Minds 230

Glossary of Thrillcraft Terms 249

Acknowledgments 254

Endnotes 255

Index 267