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  • Yellowstone Park sees snowmobile use slide

    Ralph Maughan

    Brodie Farquhar wrote about the recent decline in snowmobile use inside Yellowstone in the Casper Star-Tribune today, November 13, 2006. A telling quote was that of a snowmobile dealer in Cody, Wyoming. “Big-time snowmobile fans relish speed and resent the mandate that all snowmobiles be commercially guided, [Ed] Wells said. “That was the last straw,”…

  • Yellowstone, still noisy after all these years

    Ralph Maughan

    Brodie Farquhar is writing in New West about the snowmobiles in Yellowstone, which are supposed to be much quieter now with their 4-stroke engines. I didn’t realize this, but the Park is going to have yet another comment period on snowmobiles. This time it is on a draft environmental impact statement that will be released…

  • B-T Nat'l Forest taking comments on very important travel plan update near Jackson Hole

    Ralph Maughan

    It’s called the “North Zone travel plan revision,” hardly exciting enough to make your heart pound. But the Forest Service has a very major revision of its travel plans for the area on the east side of Jackson Hole (and other prime wildlife areas) underway, and your comments are due on October 23. The mighty…

  • Utah off-road group vows to fight closure of government land.

    Ralph Maughan

    Here is the AP article. The article says the “president of Americans with Disabilities Access Alliance, is looking for a crowd of off-roaders to drive . . . ” The idea is to get some tickets and challenge them in court, but I want to comment on another aspect of this. For years, off-road vehicle…

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