Hell on Wheels. Jack Hope.
by Hope, Jack; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 29Environment. Publisher: Onearth, 2004ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): All terrain vehicle | Environmental degradation | Land degradation | Off-road vehicles | Outdoor recreation -- Environmental aspects | Public lands | Wayne National Forest (Ohio)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "Today [2004], from the Florida marshlands to the Rocky Mountains to the Alaska tundra, millions of off-road-vehicle riders regularly recreate on public land. To hear the riders tell it, full-tilt ORV sports represent the ultimate in personal freedom. But for the nation's non-motorized outdoorsmen and for state and federal land managers, the popularity of off-road recreational vehicles has created problems never before seen in the American outdoors." (ONEARTH) The author examines the environmental damage cause by off-road-vehicles and states that "a new wave of bigger, faster machines is driving Americans from the wilderness."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Hell on Wheels, Spring 2004; pp. 32-37.
"Today [2004], from the Florida marshlands to the Rocky Mountains to the Alaska tundra, millions of off-road-vehicle riders regularly recreate on public land. To hear the riders tell it, full-tilt ORV sports represent the ultimate in personal freedom. But for the nation's non-motorized outdoorsmen and for state and federal land managers, the popularity of off-road recreational vehicles has created problems never before seen in the American outdoors." (ONEARTH) The author examines the environmental damage cause by off-road-vehicles and states that "a new wave of bigger, faster machines is driving Americans from the wilderness."
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