How Noise Threatens Our Vacations Psychology Today (blog) In Yellowstone, the noise controversy has centered on snowmobile use. [...]
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New Wyoming County tourist attraction a first-class facility… Arcade Herald “We are close to a snowmobile trail and hope to become a regular stop for them,” she says. [...] April 6, 2010 – YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — The total number of winter visitors to Yellowstone National Park was up over 8 percent compared to the previous year, but was still 6 percent lower than the 2007-2008 season. The total number of oversnow visitors remained flat, with a small drop in snowmobile [...] CHEYENNE — Medicine Bow National Forest says it will take more time planning a controversial parking lot for snowmobiles off the Snowy Range National Scenic Byway. District Ranger Larry Sandoval said the Forest Service isn’t ruling out building the parking lot but wants to resolve questions about the parking lot’s size as well as engineering and [...] JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) – Teton County commissioners have reversed course and banned snowmobiles from Buffalo Valley Road after residents complained of potential dangers and reduced property values. The commissioners last week voted to revoke a Nov. 17 decision allowing snowmobiles on the road, citing a lack of notice given to area residents before the decision. Chairman Hank [...] SHERIDAN, Wyo. — Five lost snowmobilers spent a cold night stranded in the Bighorn Mountains before being rescued over the weekend in northern Wyoming. Sheridan County Sheriff’s Lt. Mark Conrad says the snowmobilers reported being lost in the Bighorn Mountains at about 7:45 p.m. on Saturday. They were found about 24 hours later. One snowmobiler received treatment [...] (CN) – A Wyoming county wants more snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park. The Park County Board of Commissioner challenged the Interior Department’s rule that allows only 318 snowmobiles a day in the nation’s oldest National Park. Associated Press – November 30, 2009 7:35 AM ET LANDER, Wyo. (AP) – For the third year in a row, Wyoming’s Continental Divide Snowmobile Trail has been ranked the number one snowmobile trail in the west by readers of a magazine. The trail was voted tops by the readers of SnoWest Magazine. It also is the fourth [...] CHEYENNE — On Friday, Gov. Dave Freudenthal and the State of Wyoming challenged the National Park Service’s limit of 318 commercially-guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles a day into Yellowstone National Park. The limit, Freudenthal said, “continues the Park Service’s unacceptable pattern of limiting public access to the public’s lands.” “This rule fails the eyeball test,” he continued. [...] CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The state of Wyoming filed a federal lawsuit Friday seeking to block the National Park Service from further restricting snowmobile numbers in Yellowstone National Park. The Park Service issued a temporary rule on Friday that would allow up to 318 snowmobiles and 78 snowcoaches per day into the park starting next month and [...] A rule implementing a new plan to provide for limited, regulated snowmobile and snowcoach access in Yellowstone National Park for the next two winters will be published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 20. This interim rule allows up to 318 commercially guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles, and up to 78 commercially guided snowcoaches [...] A rule implementing a plan to provide for limited, regulated snowmobile and snow coach access in Yellowstone National Park for the next two winters will be published in the Federal Register on Friday. The interim rule allows up to 318 commercially guided, best-available-technology snowmobiles, and up to 78 commercially guided snow coaches per day in Yellowstone [...] |
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