As the winter snowmobile season begins today in Yellowstone National
Park, The Fund for Animals and Bluewater Network praised last night's
federal court decision that cuts the number of snowmobiles allowed in
the park by half, invalidating a Bush Administration decision that had
overturned a Clinton-era rule, which had resulted from The Fund's 1997
legal settlement, to phase out the noisy, polluting machines.
The
groups also hailed U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan's opinion
concluding that the National Park Service must further study the
environmental impacts that the packing of 25-foot-wide roads for
snowmobiles and snowcoaches has on bison and other park wildlife.
Read
more about the decision at:
http://fund.org/library/documentViewer.asp?ID=1252&table=documents
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