Last Day 11/17, Yellowstone Comments, very easy

[Wade]

OK, they made this easy, it will take 10 minutes, really.

Go Here: http://parkplanning.nps.gov/commentForm.cfm?parkID=111&projectID=23430&documentId=25017

And tell them you want 1025 snowmobiles allowed in the park a day, or 720, or 540, if your more comfortable with that. It's just a limit. The limit of 318 snowmobiles per day (or zero) isn't sufficient. Tell them this is all BS politics. Snowmobiles don't hurt the animals or the park. And, something about the parks being for people. And, why doesn't the summer have similar limits. OR JUST TELL THEM SOMETHING, like you support the BRC position.

Just to recap, snowmobiles are all guided, and only super clean 4 strokes are allowed (even a Apex isn't clean enough).

SAWS link: http://www.snowmobile-alliance.org/Action_Alerts/08/SAWS_News_-_YNP-GT_News_-_Parks_Seek_New_Public_Comment.htm

 

[2fun4u]

OH JEEZ THIS STUFF MAKES ME MAD!

I sent my response.

2fun

 

[bigfoot]

Sent a comment

 

[snengineer]

TTT we need eveyones help in this, please comment and catch them in their own trap, discrimination at its worst.

 

[Wade]

You have till tonight, WOT. Thanks to those that put up with the bull, year after year.

 

[phatty]

Done and Done...

TTT so more people can leave comments. You know the greenies are writing so get with it sledheads!!! let your voice be heard!

 

[flatlander_99]

done

this stuff ticks me off...

 

[Reese]

done, TTT

 

[Crazy 8]

Done. Once I started typing I couldn't stop. TTT

 

[Poleman]

done

 

[MTm7]

done as well!!!

 

[cpa]

Unfortunatly it seems as though the fight to keep riding areas open is just beginning. Everyone take a few minutes and send a coment.

 

[94fordguy]

Submitted... I just hope that the people in charge know how to listen to reason and don't strip away what little opportunities we have left...

 

[Goldenwest]

This has been pinned by Admin in general for a week. Thanks for the second post so people don't miss it. Tick, tock, tick, tock, time is runnin out............

 

[High Life]

Done.

 

[Dam Dave]

done

 

[Johnny]

done. Everyone please submit a comment.

 

[Wade]

Few more hours left to comment.

Thanks Goldenwest, your thread got huge. I'm just advertising the final date. You got a lot of comments, go going.

Don't know how much this will help, but had we not been commenting for the last 9 years, we wouldn't be allowed today. So, your comments do matter.

 

[Daniel Boondocker]

Done. Thanks again Wade.

 

[Goldenwest]

Here is the latest the news is stating. I personally will wait to see what Sullivan does next. The drama continues........... Deadline for comment in just a few hours...............

Yellowstone to open on time for winter use

Posted: Nov 17, 2008 04:56 PM MST

Updated: Nov 17, 2008 06:23 PM MST

Yellowstone to open on time for winter use

An old rule that allows snowmobiles and snowcoaches in Yellowstone National Park is in being reinstated, putting to rest, at least for now, uncertainty about the park's winter use plan for this year.

The fate of the park's snowmobile and snowcoach access for this year's winter season has been up in the air since September when a federal judge in Washington, D.C. rejected the park's winter use plan, thereby prohibiting snowmobile and snowcoach access without a new regulation.

When this happened, the National Park Service began to work on a new temporary plan to guide winter use management in Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks to ensure they would be open by Dec. 15.

Meanwhile, a related challenge to winter use management in the parks was before a U.S. District Court in Wyoming, and on Nov. 7 the court ordered the National Park Service to reinstate a 2004 rule. The rule will allow snowmobiles and snowcoaches access to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks this winter, according to a press release from Yellowstone.

The parks are to operate under this rule for the winter season.

Under the reinstated 2004 rule, motorized over-snow access will be allowed during the winter as it has for the past four winters. Up to 720 commercially guided, Best Available Technology (BAT) snowmobiles and up to 78 snowcoaches will be allowed per day in Yellowstone National Park, according to the press release. Yellowstone's east entrance and Sylvan Pass will be open for motorized and non-motorized over-snow travel, subject to weather and safety constraints.

Meanwhile, trail and off-road use of snowmobiles and snowcoaches will continue to be prohibited.

During the last two winters, an average of about 296 snowmobiles a day entered Yellowstone. The park's peak day was during last December when 557 snowmobiles entered the park. Given the uncertainty caused by lawsuits on winter use, park managers forecast use levels for this winter to remain near these levels.