EPA SEEKS MORE SNOWMOBILE LIMITS IN YELLOWSTONE THAN NPS PROPOSES

EPA is urging the National Park Service (NPS) to better protect the environment than it is proposing to do in its new plan to allow 720 snowmobiles per day in Yellowstone National Park this coming winter. The agency submitted comments Sept. 20 on NPS' draft temporary winter use plan environmental assessment (EA), in which the park service identified a Clinton-era plan to replace snowmobiles with snowcoaches as the "environmentally preferred alternative" but then rejected that approach in favor of one...