Posted on 11/24/2007 9:15:28 PM PST by george76
Motorized over-snow access to Yellowstone Park via Sylvan Pass will continue under terms of a Park Service decision signed Tuesday.
The decision reversed an earlier Park Service preferred alternative that would have totally closed Yellowstone's East Entrance in wintertime after the 2007-08 season.
A Record of Decision (ROD) concerning Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks and the Rockefeller Parkway was signed by Mike Snyder of Denver, director of the Intermountain Region of the Park Service.
The ROD calls for changes in winter use in the two parks beginning with the 2008-09 winter season.
“Unless they still commit to wanting to have winter tours over Sylvan Pass, it's never going to happen,” said Bob Coe of Pahaska Tepee on the North Fork.
Coe closed his lodge last year in mid-season after several instances of “four inches of snow” closing the pass for long stretches, forcing cancelation of several booked snowmobile trips.
“It you had reliability, you could probably survive on 30 trips per day,” Coe said. “Without reliability, it's not worth the effort.”
Carol Armstrong, co-chairman of Shut Out of Yellowstone, a grassroots group that worked to keep the Cody gate open, said she is “encouraged” by the ROD.
“It leaves the door open to future communications, and I am optimistic that working together we can arrive at a solution to safely mitigate the avalanche danger,” Armstrong said.
(Excerpt) Read more at codyenterprise.com ...
The YNP skewed data they tried to ram down our throats was appalling.
Yah-Hoo for TRUTH "
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