Meanings
- uncountableRecreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/11/11/Wreckreation/index.html - By Jim Cooperman, 11 Nov 2009, TheTyee.ca BC's Shameful Backcountry Wreckreation
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Wreckreation in Our National Forests
1973, David E. Gray, Donald A. Pelegrino, Reflections on the recreation and park movement: a book of readings...critiques of motorized wreckreation...
2001, Wild Earth Association, Cenozoic Society, Wild earth, Volume 11, page 80Time will tell whether the small town surrounded by agribusinesses, booming residential populations, and sand dunes to drive on for high-speed wreckreation will preserve its maternal purity.
2008, Craig Chalquist, Deep California: Images and Ironies of Cross and Sword on El Camino Realhttps://web.archive.org/web/20080509133709/http://www.peer.org/campaigns/publiclands/orv/index.php Off-Road “Wreckreation” Plagues Public Lands
Origin
Blend of wreck + recreation.
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