This week U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan overturned a Bush administration-supported proposal to allow up to 540 snowmobiles in Yellowstone National Park each winter day. The plan would have allowed licenses for more than twice as many vehicles than previous years and would have further contributed to the air and noise pollution caused by the current snowmobile usage. The judge ruled in favor of six conservation groups, and argued that the increase would run contrary to the mission of National Park Service’s Organic Act of 1916:
“… to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

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Danny Jensen is s gardener, actor, opera singer and blogger.

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