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- Goal: 65,000
- Deadline: 5-29-2002
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Save Yellowstone and Grand Teton from Snowmobiles 
Thank you to all who have helped! The official public comment period ended at midnight May 29, 2002. Comments are still welcome, but you may not receive a response from the government.
After years of study on snowmobile use in Yellowstone and Grand
Teton National Parks, the National Park Service has just released
a new analysis of the impact of snowmobiles that supports the
original decision to phase-out these machines.
The Park Service urgently needs to hear FROM YOU that it should uphold
its original decision to phase out snowmobile use and protect our national parks.
BACKGROUND:
In November 2000, after a three-year public process that included 22
public hearings and over 65,000 public comments, the National Park
Service issued a decision to phase out snowmobiles in Yellowstone and
Grand Teton national parks over a four-year period. The existing mass
transit system would be expanded to ensure public access to the parks.
The decision - based on a decade of scientific studies by university
researchers and government agencies - found that snowmobiles are
damaging the parks' wildlife, clean air, natural sounds and quiet, as
well as the unique experiences that Americans expect to find in their
national parks. 
TAKE ACTION:
Public support for the original Park Service is the only way it will be implemented.
Please support the Park Service's decision to phase out snowmobile use
in Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks by sending your comments
below. Tell them that:
- Americans want Yellowstone and Grand Teton to remain peaceful places in winter where bison, elk, and other wildlife are not harassed by noisy vehicles.
- Snowmobiles continue to cause pollution, make rangers sick, and prevent visitors from hearing the eruption of Old Faithful or enjoying the solitude that Americans expect from their national parks.
- The original, science-based phase out decision is the only way to adequately protect the nation's first national park and nearby Grand Teton national park.
The Final Rule should reflect Alternative 1a
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | State | Why do you support a ban on snowmobiles? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65,223 | 8:33 pm PDT, Jul 11 | Ms. | Anonymous | Illinois | They harm the environment |
| 65,222 | 3:54 am PDT, Mar 23 | joshua millman | Oregon | PLEASE BAN SNOWMOBILES in YNP How can people be so stupid and selfish to really think that snowmobiles are okay in YNP. It makes me sick how people can be so thoughtless, use common sense people. Honestly it pisses me off. I am going to YNP this year and will protest all the snowmobiles - who is with me? The park is not for your fat asses to roll around on those dirty machines (not to mention how stressful they make the animals!). Go somewhere else you losers! NO SNOWMOBILES! | |
| 65,221 | 6:02 pm PDT, Apr 14 | Aiz T | They pollute the environment and scare animals. | ||
| 65,220 | 4:12 pm PST, Feb 14 | rex novak | Wisconsin | I dont. I think you people are messed up and should go hug a tree | |
| 65,219 | 7:39 am PST, Feb 6 | Christine Iadeluca | New York | . | |
| 65,218 | 9:18 am PST, Feb 5 | Ms. | Michaella Mintcheff | Hawaii | Preserve the few remaining wilderness areas. the wolderness teaches our children fun and pleasure that is not destructive and polluting. Snow mobiles pollute with sound and further decrease our capacity to take pleasure in unspoiled nature. |
| 65,217 | 6:30 pm PST, Jan 22 | Mr. | Jason Bowman | California | They ruin the environment |
| 65,216 | 11:43 pm PST, Dec 8 | Mr. | Terje Reite | Because they scare the animals, and pollute the environment. | |
| 65,215 | 12:19 pm PST, Nov 30 | Jennifer Megeney | yes | ||
| 65,214 | 6:14 pm PST, Nov 24 | Ms. | Emily MacDonald | Pennsylvania | parks should be roadless and untrampled |
| 65,213 | 9:02 am PST, Nov 17 | Ms. | Mary Ann Mackey | Pennsylvania | The are very harmful to the environment |
| 65,212 | 5:01 am PST, Nov 11 | Dr. | Geraldine Wright | Wyoming | Have you seen Yellowstone in winter? It is beautiful. Snomobiling destroys its beauty, pollutes the air with fumes and noise, stresses wildlife. It is simply wrong to use snowmobiles there. It is not a highway- it is a National Park. |
| 65,211 | 11:43 am PDT, Oct 19 | Ms. | Michelle Goldstein Wax | New York | While not a big fan of hiking and walking in awe of nature, I do not want wildlife hurt by the snowmobiles as I am an animal lover |
| 65,210 | 7:09 am PDT, Oct 11 | Severine Stockling | they are dangerous | ||
| 65,209 | 12:26 am PDT, Oct 11 | germain puerta | _ | ||
| 65,208 | 6:22 pm PDT, Sep 10 | Carl Propst | California | Because it disturbs the animals and visitors that come to enjoy the beautiful park areas. | |
| 65,207 | 9:44 pm PDT, Aug 27 | Linda Bonura | Louisiana | Snowmobiles are bad for the park | |
| 65,206 | 3:21 am PDT, Jul 14 | Ms. | Candy Bowman-LeBlanc | California | They are biggest poulterers in the parks. |
| 65,205 | 10:17 pm PDT, Jun 19 | Anonymous | Armed Forces Americas | . | |
| 65,204 | 12:16 am PDT, Jun 14 | susini alexandra | - | ||
| 65,203 | 2:15 am PDT, Apr 17 | Steve Klein | Armed Forces Americas | x | |
| 65,202 | 12:55 pm PDT, Apr 11 | D White | Indiana | Leave the wilderness to the wildlife. | |
| 65,201 | 11:44 pm PST, Apr 1 | kellie albee | Montana | they are destroying the terrain, they are armful to the animals, the toxic emissions are not healthy for the ecosystem, and the sound is deffening. | |
| 65,200 | 9:17 am PST, Apr 1 | Bryan Hayek | Washington | Snowmobiles are noisey, heavy polluters and dangerous. National Parks were set up to preserve the wildlife so people could come and see them for years to come. People need to take advantage of the friendlier snow coaches the park provides. | |
| 65,199 | 5:16 pm PST, Mar 9 | Mr. | Nikolai Dragnes | I have personally seen the damage the snowmobile traction does to the fragile arctic ground. It takes a decade for the plants to grow back in this environment. | |
| 65,198 | 2:56 pm PST, Mar 7 | Mr. | Michael Mitsuda | California | I hate noise pollution |
| 65,197 | 9:51 am PST, Mar 6 | Ms. | Krystyna Postawa | Armed Forces Americas | National Parks ought to be clean |
| 65,196 | 8:05 am PST, Mar 4 | Ms. | stephanie lessard | New Hampshire | snowmobiles erode the land and do more damage then good in the woods at my parents house snowbolies have completly ruined the land it made the woods unsafe to travel on either by foot or by atv and the people have been so irreasoniable about their trash our swamp land is now polluted and property tax has gone up in result to restore the land so it can happen anywhere put an end to it |
| 65,195 | 11:36 am PST, Feb 27 | Jennifer Gardner | Massachusetts | Snowmobiles cause pollution noise and other disturbances to wildlife | |
| 65,194 | 2:21 am PST, Feb 21 | Ms. | Emily S. | dd | |
| 65,193 | 2:57 pm PST, Feb 15 | Julien Godman | Michigan | snowmobiles are loud, polluting, and destructive machines that should stay far away from a place of peace and nature. | |
| 65,192 | 11:24 am PST, Feb 13 | Mr. | Patrick Hickey | Idaho | Snowmobiles disrupt the natural setting of the park in a way that rivals other park activities. |
| 65,191 | 9:58 am PST, Feb 8 | ellen horowitz | Illinois | - | |
| 65,190 | 8:57 am PST, Feb 7 | Ms. | Toni Sokoloski | Massachusetts | i want to preserve the national parks |
| 65,189 | 10:20 am PST, Feb 3 | Genie Brooks | Maryland | they are dangerous | |
| 65,188 | 7:20 am PST, Feb 2 | Chandra Patel | Tennessee | it harms | |
| 65,187 | 11:43 am PST, Jan 20 | C Lisa Jackson | Oregon | dangerous to the environs | |
| 65,186 | 10:28 am PST, Jan 1 | Ms. | Dolores Pena-Davis | California | we should keep our open spaces as pristine as possible |
| 65,185 | 6:42 am PST, Dec 29 | Nancy Ohm | Pennsylvania | they disrupt the wildlife | |
| 65,184 | 8:18 pm PST, Dec 20 | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | The machines destroy habitat and force wildlife to find other habitat that is undesturbed by noise & destruction. | |
| 65,183 | 10:08 pm PST, Dec 15 | Earth Indigo | Michigan | snow mobiles disturb distressed wildlife that are struggling through the harsh winter months | |
| 65,182 | 10:29 am PST, Dec 14 | Ms. | Donna Hodsdon-Trips | Idaho | i wouldnt want snowmobilers in my home.....do you think the animals like it?...lets keep those noise makers out of the parks....less noise ..less destruction....makes sense to me |
| 65,181 | 5:53 pm PST, Dec 11 | Jerod Ostransky | Nebraska | Snowmobiles affect wildlife, the land and the air. They are noisy and do nothing good for the parks. They need to be banned to help conserve the natural beauty of our parks. | |
| 65,180 | 7:25 am PST, Dec 1 | Solent SafeBuoy | . | ||
| 65,179 | 7:13 am PST, Dec 1 | Ashok Prabhakar | protect the Flora and Fauna | ||
| 65,178 | 3:11 pm PST, Nov 26 | Brenda Schenk | Washington | They make a lot of noice. They scare the animals, they increase air pollution, they don't add anything possitive to the park environment, in fact it's a unhealthy and unsafe thing to do in every way, when you look at the big picture. | |
| 65,177 | 8:53 am PST, Nov 23 | Marcela Del valle | California | We must protect our beautiful parks from all danger, even snowmobiles. | |
| 65,176 | 7:15 am PST, Nov 22 | Anonymous | New York | wat the hell are you talkin about the ssleds do no damage | |
| 65,175 | 9:40 pm PST, Nov 20 | Michele Long | Kentucky | I don't want to worry about pollution | |
| 65,174 | 1:09 pm PST, Nov 19 | Thomas Pirovano | Armed Forces Americas | yes | |
| 65,173 | 3:55 pm PST, Nov 12 | Roy Moss | Oregon | Noise and pollution! | |
| 65,172 | 7:44 am PST, Nov 8 | Ms Zentura | Wyoming | They're polluting & noise makers. | |
| 65,171 | 3:46 pm PST, Nov 3 | Kat Rudd | California | They have no place in the parks and will only further disturb and add waste to the environment. | |
| 65,170 | 11:31 am PST, Nov 1 | Anonymous | Nebraska | They don't belong in our national parks!! They are destroying the very things that we set up to preserve!! | |
| 65,169 | 6:31 am PST, Oct 30 | Kate Stevens | New York | noise pollution | |
| 65,168 | 4:41 am PDT, Oct 19 | Susan Dunne | Ohio | Because the noise level and pollution output of the machines is intolerable. | |
| 65,167 | 10:15 pm PDT, Oct 16 | Hazel Chase | Illinois | DUHHHHHHHHH... THEY DON'T BELONG THERE!!!!! | |
| 65,166 | 8:25 am PDT, Oct 15 | Angie Liljegren | Illinois | Noise, air pollution. | |
| 65,165 | 6:05 am PDT, Oct 13 | Christine Jardine | o | ||
| 65,164 | 8:24 pm PDT, Oct 8 | Travis Edwards | they are filthy | ||
| 65,163 | 3:38 pm PDT, Oct 5 | sue lambright | Massachusetts | stop the noise, air and other polution caused by snowmobiles! have you ever been hiking or skiing when a batch go by? you could choke to death on the fumes! imagine how inocent wild amimals feel . This is nothing but wanton destruction of wild lands. | |
| 65,162 | 6:53 am PDT, Oct 2 | Anonymous | Because letting the snowmobiles in defeats the whole purpose of setting up a special, protected area. Recreation is also important, and a better solution needs to be found. | ||
| 65,160 | 9:48 am PDT, Sep 18 | Carol Duncan | Wisconsin | noise levells upset the animals and they don't reproduce. | |
| 65,159 | 7:25 am PDT, Sep 15 | Anonymous | |||
| 65,158 | 11:10 pm PDT, Aug 20 | Suzanne Bar-Tal | They simply endager the enviornment...which is obviously more important than man's pleasures | ||
| 65,157 | 2:34 am PDT, Aug 16 | Dellianan of the Sea | Colorado | Because it is direspectful to the creatures who live on this land | |
| 65,156 | 5:52 am PDT, Aug 13 | Anonymous | because they do harm | ||
| 65,155 | 7:22 am PDT, Aug 10 | Donna Hefflefinger | Florida | Fo all the normal reasons. They should not be there in the first place! | |
| 65,154 | 10:31 pm PDT, Aug 9 | Janet Kuncl | Illinois | The snowmobiles disturb the wild animals and the peacefulness of the wilderness. | |
| 65,153 | 4:15 pm PDT, Aug 9 | Lorraine Jefferson-parkes | Yellowstone Park is an area of great beauty (and also potential danger) Take care of it, and hopefully it will be kind to you. | ||
| 65,152 | 9:48 am PDT, Aug 1 | Hector Navarro | California | fun or Our natural heritage?. It seems pretty obvious. Please protect our environment. | |
| 65,151 | 1:01 pm PDT, Jul 31 | Marcia Kittleson | Missouri | I love snowmobiling,but the protection of the wildlife and fauna is much more important. |
Stop Snowmobiles in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Winter Use Draft SEIS Comments
Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks
PO Box 352
Moose, Wyoming 83012
Dear Park Service:
I support the National Park Service decision to phase out snowmobile use
from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I support a snowcoach
transportation system, which will minimize wildlife harassment, reduce air
and noise pollution, and protect employee and visitor health and safety.
The snowmobile industry has produced no new evidence that warrants changing
your decision to phase out snowmobile use. In fact, the Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) demonstrates again that your original
decision was sound. The SEIS shows that continued snowmobile use in the
parks will result in more noise, dirtier air, and less protection for
wildlife than a transition to snowcoach access.
Rangers should not have to wear respirators, visitors should be able to
enjoy peace and quiet, and wildlife should not have to contend with
harassment from tens of thousands of machines each winter. There is a great
national interest in protecting these magnificent parks. This should not be
jeopardized on behalf of the snowmobile industry.
Please uphold the law that has protected our national parks since Congress created the Park
Service in 1916--by selecting SEIS Alternative 1a. The Environmental Protection Agency has called
this the environmentally-preferred alternative. I urge you to ensure that Alternative 1a's
phaseout of snowmobile use is reflected in the Final Rule for winter use in Yellowstone and Grand
Teton.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks
PO Box 352
Moose, Wyoming 83012
Dear Park Service:
I support the National Park Service decision to phase out snowmobile use
from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. I support a snowcoach
transportation system, which will minimize wildlife harassment, reduce air
and noise pollution, and protect employee and visitor health and safety.
The snowmobile industry has produced no new evidence that warrants changing
your decision to phase out snowmobile use. In fact, the Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) demonstrates again that your original
decision was sound. The SEIS shows that continued snowmobile use in the
parks will result in more noise, dirtier air, and less protection for
wildlife than a transition to snowcoach access.
Rangers should not have to wear respirators, visitors should be able to
enjoy peace and quiet, and wildlife should not have to contend with
harassment from tens of thousands of machines each winter. There is a great
national interest in protecting these magnificent parks. This should not be
jeopardized on behalf of the snowmobile industry.
Please uphold the law that has protected our national parks since Congress created the Park
Service in 1916--by selecting SEIS Alternative 1a. The Environmental Protection Agency has called
this the environmentally-preferred alternative. I urge you to ensure that Alternative 1a's
phaseout of snowmobile use is reflected in the Final Rule for winter use in Yellowstone and Grand
Teton.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
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