Pristine? I wish. I think a covered motor has no effect on the ecosystem. What does have an effect is all the idiots that dump there line and wieghts and garbage in the lake. Now that's something to work on. It's a crock that people just don't give a crap. Fishing line kills more wildlife that a motor out of the water ever could. BUT NOOOOOOOOOOO it's too dang hard to pick up line and put it in your pocket. But it seems even harder for these bozos to let anything go either. If you fish and your goal is to fill your stringer so you look cool for your buddies, then i'd say you don't have enough respect for the environment and are probably one of the many that discard ciggarets, beer cans and your favorite bird nest in to the lake.

Is it the motor or the people that own the motor? Why follow the limit law when you break the littering law? Is breaking one and not the other, better? Witnessing these idiots is probably what enforced that law in the first place. I had a dream and it was pristine, then i woke up.