Bernie,
Great news....only occasionally does science defeat politics.
Now we need to get the Parks & friends interested in restricting
access to the parks to motorcycles with adequate mufflers.
I understand that most (all?) states have laws against motorcycles
without mufflers, but I've never visited a national, state, or county
park that posted a warning about unmuffled bikes, or enforced
their own laws against them.
....And, by the way, they are illegal on all the other roads as well.
(PS the bikers claim that they remove the mufflers on new bikes as
a "safety feature"....You'll hear them coming even if you don't see them.)
Where do we start?
Drew
At 10:02 AM 9/28/2008 -0700, you wrote:
>Don't know if anyone caught this given the chaos lately, but:
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>* "Bush Snowmobile Plan for Yellowstone National Park Struck Down":
>"The Bush administration's authorization of increased snowmobile use
>in Yellowstone National Park violates the fundamental legal
>responsibility of the National Park Service to protect the clean air,
>wildlife, and natural quiet of national parks for the benefit of all
>visitors, a federal court ruled today. The administration authorized
>increased snowmobile use despite scientific conclusions by the
>National Park Service that the decision would multiply noise and
>unhealthy exhaust, which disrupt the experiences of visitors, and
>traffic that harms Yellowstone's wildlife, including bison. Judge
>Emmett Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of
>Columbia today invalidated the Bush decision in a case brought by six
>conservation groups that together represent more than two million
>members." Environment New Service had the story September 15, 2008.
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