SAVE YELLOWSTONE!
The National Park Service is taking comments on its plans for snowmobile use in Yellowstone.
Tell them their "preferred plan" to expand the use of snowmobiles STINKS!
What would nature loving Americans do if three separate studies showed that a single, preventable type of activity was damaging the majestic Yellowstone National Park?
If you were George Bush's National Park Service, you'd nearly triple that activity!
Yes, it's true. The National Park Service (NPS) proposes Yellowstone guidelines that will nearly triple nitrogen oxide emissions, double hydrocarbon emissions, and push carbon monoxide emissions up 60 percent in the park.
To what end would our government increase such pollution, you ask? To allow a near threefold increase in snowmobiling.
Despite the analyses in 2000, 2003, and 2004 finding current snowmobile emissions and noise levels a threat to the park's health, The NPS just couldn't bear to bridle these fuel-dripping, 2-stroke screamers. Instead it seeks to expand the daily number of snowmobiles in the park from an already-harmful 250 to a whopping 720.
Fortunately, the NPS is taking comments right now on the rule change for snowmobile use. It's pushing its "preferred alternative" to up snowmobile numbers, but there is another alternative we can support -- "Alternative 2" -- that would allow motorized access through the park only through snowcoach, and would phase out the use of snowmobiles (see below to find out just how dirty snowmobiles are).
Submit your comment now, urging the NPS to adopt "Alternative 2" -- then get everyone you know who cares about the preservation of national parks to send in a comment too.
Using snowmobiles in Yellowstone is a bad idea -- expanding their use there is sheer madness.
TAKE ACTION: Stop Pollution in Yellowstone!